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The onset of blue-green algae caused the Murray's smell to change from rank to fetid. Halting the damage to the Murray-Darling basin is essential to our financial survival, yet it may be that it is impossible to stop the damage without also causing critical economic damage. — Eureka Street, March 1993
John Howard’s "relaxed and comfortable" approach to national life, then, was not simply a rejection of Paul Keating’s aggressive, deliberate reforms. It represented a vile pandering to our cultural inertia, an affirmation of our basest tendencies.
Statisticians of weather can have a shot at telling us where this drought stands in the pantheon of arid disasters. Is this the 'worst drought' in a thousand years, as Mike Rann is said to have claimed? Who knows?
The respnse to Brian McCoy's latest article Why change Aborigines into images of ourselves? has been vocal. Here are some of the letters...
On your bus, Kerala leads, Sudan in Australia, Coming to terms.
Peter Steele looks at poetry about the birds and beasts.
Strange times, Cooling off in Tasmania, Where now for reconciliation?, Tides of history, Being scared of GM
Or is it? Gillian Bouras gardens in Greece.
Peter Pierce gets on the bus.
Italy, Caravaggio and Catholicism.
The IT industry prepares for the next boom
The transition from school to work or study is harder now than it has been since the recession "we had to have" in 1990.
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