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Blocking Bulldozers in Tasmania...
Like St. Paul on the road to Damascus, Dr. Bob Brown had a sudden and irrevocable conversion. The Australian general practitioner had traveled for twelve days on the Franklin River, a beautifully remote waterway in western Tasmania, without sign of civilization. Suddenly, near the river's headwaters, he heard the racket of construction equipment -- jackhammers, drilling barges, bulldozers and helicopters. They were about to build a dam that would have destroyed everything Brown had just seen. "I decided on the spot that the preventive medicine I should be involved in was the conservation movement," says Brown, 45. He dropped...
...colossal hint at the truth that appears roughly a third of the way through the text. No matter. This book is far more than a standard piece of genealogical sleuthing. Half its fascination lies in chapters that describe milieus rather than biographical detail. Frontier living in Tasmania when Reg was a boy, the realities of pickup vaudeville in the outback, the grim privations of war in Malta when he served there, the ins and outs of selling jewelry or newspaper ads or working military codes -- whatever the father encountered, the daughter has made...
When Robert Holmes a Court comes calling, most corporate chiefs hide the company silver. A sly and extraordinarily patient Australian financier, Holmes a Court has built Bell Group, a $2 billion corporate empire that reaches from oil and gas interests near Tasmania to theaters in London's West End, by capturing troubled companies one at a time. Now the raider is circling around Texaco, and no one is entirely certain of his intentions...
...reinterred. The move was yet another victory for Australia's native people, the aborigines, who, in an effort to reclaim their cultural and spiritual heritage, have been waging a legal battle to recover the skulls and bones of their ancestors, locked away in laboratories and museums. In Tasmania recently, officials ordered the return of a state collection of ancient bones to the aborigines. And earlier this year, native Australians prevented two aboriginal skulls, each more than 10,000 years old, from being sent to an exhibit of human evolution at the Museum of Natural History in New York. Declares...