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The article describes the contemporary aboriginal architecture in Australia. The \ paper also describes the tribal structure and religio-cultural belief with which the Aborigines inhabit their land, their dispossession and brutal treatment and the dawning of more culturally appropriate forms of architectural provision.

Reports on ANM's addition of newsprint recycling module. Capacity of the module; Employment of design engineers by ANM; Construction contracts of ANM's recycling plant; Plant's recycling processes.

Reports on a national forum on pulp and paper research in Australia to be held from October 4 to 6, 1994 in Melbourne, Victoria.

Reports on the dispute between employers in Victoria, Australia, and Australian Paper company concerning the compulsory membership of employees in financial union. Provisions of the Employee Relations Act; Demand of Australian Paper for a closed shop.

Reports on expected major upgrades in fighter and transport aircraft, missiles and trainers in Australia. Continental European manufacturers' aim to enter the Australian market; Key plans from the Australian Parliament's Defense White Paper.

Presents a profit growth outlook for industrial companies in Australia for 1995 to 1996. Potential of mining stocks; Paper and packaging as the most promising sectors; Reasons for bullishness about resources; Relationship between commodity prices and the Australian dollar; Effect of the level of competition and low-inflation environment.

Reports on plans to extend mutual recognition of regulations to the Australian-New Zealand trade sector. Reduction of trans-Tasman regulatory barriers; Discussion paper presented to the April 1995 meeting of the Council of Australian Governments (COAG); Implications; Expectations.

Reports that the Indian hemp, a member of the cannabis family, is being investigated for possible commercial development in western Australia. Alternative source of fiber for textiles, paper and rope; potential useful crop for farmers in the state's southwest.

Features an update on various Federal government policies and legislation concerning the Australian economy and industry. Release of Industry Minister, Senator Peter Cook's discussion paper on innovation; Efforts of the Federal Government's senior ministers to sell the budget; Opposition of business groups to the proposed budget; Amendments to the Health Legislation Amendment Bill.

Discusses the different approaches taken by Australian forestry companies to valuing and recognizing plantations for accounting purposes. Efforts of accounting and tax authorities to address the lack of official accounting guidance; Discussion paper on self-generating and regenerating assets; Scrutiny of issues relating to forestry and tax treatment.

Opinion. Comments on five Australian executives' strategies to remain in competition. Rupert Murdoch's linking of telephone networks with his information/entertainment services; Kerry Packer's decision to focus on his Nine Network; Richard Pratt's expansion of his paper company; Frank Lowy's introduction of entertainment in his shopping centers; David Hains' operation of an investment portfolio.

Reports that the South Australian government has planted the first mainland trial hemp crop for use as a source of pulp for making paper. Issuance of a 12-month license under the Controlled Substances Act for three trial hemp crops; Australian Newsprint Mills' experimentation with pulping; Environmental benefit of using hemp pulp.

Reports on the working papers from the Australian Graduate School of Management. Various management concepts.

Presents the insights of Australian labor union leaders and lawyers concerning enterprise flexibility agreements which became prevalent when the Industrial Relations Reform Act 1993 took effect on March 30, 1994. Agreements handled by Nancy Atkin of the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance; Position of the ACTU; Discussion paper issued by the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

Presents criticism on the quality of Australia's accounting research, made by Graeme Dean, an associate professor at Sydney University's accounting department, in a yet-to-be-published paper `Reflections on Accounting Research.' Counter-criticism faced by Dean; Details.

Reports on developments in Bunnings Ltd.'s evaluation of the feasibility of an integrated pulp mill and paper-making project in Western Australia. Speculations on Bunnings' capability to continue with the study; Bunnings' monopoly of the timber industry; Issues facing Bunnings in its feasibility study: Complexity of Western Australia's pulp mill project.

Reports that the Prices Surveillance Authority has discovered that toilet paper in Australia had been getting shorter in length since 1988. Shrinkage as a means to compensate for the higher costs of roll manufacturing; Entry of three new niche manufacturers into the market.

Reports on developments in various accounting firms in Australia for the period ended August 28, 1995. Includes proposed changes in the 1993 Bankruptcy Act; Melbourne, Victoria-based Institute of Chartered Accountants' organizing a discussion group for accountants with London, England-based clients; Federal Treasury's release of its discussion papers on proposals to crack down the use of contractors.

Focuses on the labor problem confronting Australian-based Burnie pulp and paper mill. Mill workers' attitude toward former company owner North Ltd.; Announcement by North of cancellation of non-award agreements; Australian Paper's purchase of North's Associated Pulp and Paper Mills operations.

Presents news developments concerning the accountancy profession in Australia. Australian Federal Court's interpretation of the wording of the Corporations Law on auditor discipline in the case of Alan Davies; Australian Accounting Research Foundation's release of a discussion paper on the accounting treatment of forestry assets; Increase in audit fees in the country; Tax-agent disciplinary case.

Presents an overview of Australia's manufacturing sector as of October 1995. Ranking of companies within the building materials industry; Food sector; Machinery and equipment; Metal products; Petroleum, chemical and coal; Printing and publishing; Textiles and clothing; Wood and paper.

Focuses on the stock market performance of Fletcher Challenge and Carter Holt Harvey, the main paper and pulp commodity shares for Australians, in 1995. Trading prices; Impact of the market weakness; Factors that contributed to pulp and paper price slump; Potentially significant buying opportunity in pulp and paper shares in 1996; Expansion of in paper manufacturing capacity; Seasonal downturn and overstocking.

Asserts that the Australian government needs to finalize its forestry and timber strategies after statistics were released from the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics. The amount of the trade balance deficit on timber products for September 1994 to September 1995; Total value of exports; Details on imports of paper and paperboard; Criticism of government policy by National Party deputy leader John Anderson.

Reports that mining companies, paper makers and insurers will report big gains, but that there will be disappointments in other segments of the Australian economy when the December 31, 1995 half-year profit reporting begins in February 1996. Low interest rates; Rising raw material prices and wages; Details of the Barcep report; Details of the performance of major companies in solid fuels, paper and packaging, transportation, oil and gas, developing and contracting, and others.

Reports that John Armati sold his newspaper business, Macquarie Publications, to Brian McCarthy, managing director of Rural Press. Date on closure of deal; Profits made from sale; Comments from John Armati;

Reports that most small businesses in Australia own their own office equipment, whereas in the United States 50% of office equipment is leased; What the BRW-Dun & Bradstreet poll shows; Statistical information on this.

Looks at the performance of the different industries in Australia. Coca-Cola Amatil tops in food and household industry; Alcohol and tobacco industry suffered though legislation; Low levels in home building affected building materials industry; ICI ruling chemical industry; Pressure on paper and packaging industry; Transport industry gaining strong growth; Diversified resources industry records overall loss.

Focuses on Officeworks in Australia, a number of stores launched by Coles Myer which sells office products in a barn-like environment. Comments from Stephen Goddard, managing director; Value of sales in the six months ending January 28, 1996; Cost of each store; Who the Officeworks stores are aimed at; How the stores do their marketing; Difficulty in finding suitable sites for the stores.

Reports on the toxic waste disposal procedures of petrochemical refiner Kemcor Australia. Delivery of waste to paper mill for pulping timber fibers as past disposal process; Development of continuous carbonation process by Kemcor engineer Tom Russo; Mechanics; Characterization of caustic waste; Risks of neutralization.

Opinion. Analyzes the failure of the Australian Public Service system and the government's efforts to meet its $8 billion deficit. Role of Peter Costello in the sales tax paper-shuffling fiasco; Criticism of proposals to higher taxation.

Reports on allegations against Amcor Paper's manipulation of the fine paper industry in Australia. Factors behind the decline in fine paper prices in the world market; Status of the Australian paper industry.

Reports on the Australian paper industry. Amcor's troubles in Indonesia following paper groups' launch of capacity expansion; Downplaying of threat by Amcor managing director Don Marfarlane; Industry analysts' assessment of Indonesia's increase of its paper production.

Relates that Amcor Deputy Chairman Stan Wallis has won the 1996 Packaging Achiever of the Year, for his 36 years in the Australian paper industry. His background with Amcor, formerly Australian Paper Mills; Wallis' work as chairman of the federal government's inquiry into the financial sector.

Reports Indonesian newsprint supplier PT Aspex is launching a sales drive into Australia. PT Aspex's hiring of Glenn Bewsher of Australia Newsprint Mill; Zimmerlund as a new competitor in the newsprint industry; Prediction that Fletcher's Tasman Pulp & Paper will be the main loser from the new competition in the industry.

Presents Australian business news briefs for December 16, 1996. The results of a survey of chief financial officers taken by Korn/Ferry International; Concern over the intangible assets of Burns Philip; A paper by the Institute of Chartered Accountants that supports reforms of the goods and services tax; The Internet service, ATP Online, from Australian Tax Practice; Others.

Discusses the status of the catalogue industry in Australia as of May 1997. The impact of the rise in paper prices during 1995 and 1996; The importance of catalogues as an advertising medium; Comments from Barry Coad, the chairman of the Australian Catalogue Association.

Presents Australian news briefs for the week of May 19, 1997. The Cabinet approval of Prime Minister John Howard's 10-point plan to deal with the issue of native title on pastoral leases; Decline in paper maker Amcor's profits; The lobbying of the media by James Packer; Australian swimmer Susie Maroney as the first person to swim from Cuba to the United States.

Examines the budget in Australia as of May, 1997. Belief that Australian Treasurer Peter Costello's 1997 budget may not become apparent for three or four years; The strategy of the budget in 1996; Costello's acknowledgment of the risk that the current-account deficit poses to the economic outlook; The budget paper's brief reference to the current-account deficit; The main criticism of the 1996 by budget by Access Economics.

Reveals the strategies used by Australian newspapers for countering falling advertising and circulation. Offering of promotions; Flourishing of sales ideas inspite of cuts in marketing budgets; Development of competitive edge through online products.

Debates the superiority of the Australian Society of CPA's education program to that of the Institute of Chartered Accountants' (ICA) professional year program. The view of Trevor Hall, a CPA and solicitor with a New South Wales law enforcement agency; His conclusion in an unpublished paper that a comparison of the two exams is nothing short of an embarrassment for the ICA; The contesting of Hall's conclusions by Calvin Yap, who took both examinations.

Reports that in the past two years a revolution has occurred in Australian fixed-interest markets that has been largely unnoticed by private investors and the full significance of which might not yet be reflected in share prices. How Australian three-year bonds are selling at a lower yield than similar United States paper; Significant change in the semi-government securities market; Comments from Laurence Freedman, who had launched an Australian bond fund in the United States.

Reports on Australian paper and packaging company, Amcor's diminished market status and the steps the company is taking to bring it back up to profitability. Institutions concerned with whether Amcor will look to finding new growth segments, possibly BTR's packaging assets; Comments from Don Macfarlane of Amcor; History of the company; Amcor's acquisitions and their financial performance; Decision for the containers packaging and printing-papers divisions. INSET: Then along came Jones, by Ali Cromie..

Presents information on the speakers at the conference in Australia on regional investment organised by the National Institute of Economic and Industry Research. Comments on the election made by Rob Bastion of the Coalition of Small Business Organisations of Australia; Conference papers describing him as Rob Abstain; Sentiments of the Liberal Party on his remarks; Other speakers there.

Presents information on Bob Joss of Australian bank, Westpac's plans to turn his organization into the banker's bank by tapping into the outsourcing of back-office functions by other financial institutions. Bank consolidating all its customer-service and cheque-and-loan processing operations for New South Wales on one site; Comments from Iain Blacklaw of Australian banking operations; Problems with a similar move in Adelaide.

Presents graphs on economic indicators in Australia for November, 1997. Remembering the 1987 stock market crash was in the paper economy; Real recession hitting in 1990; Weaker Asia hurting exports such as live cattle; Positives noted such as more support for growth from the housing and retail cycles.

Presents a chart of the stock performance of several stocks newly listed in Australia as of October 1997. Impact of the state of the market in late October; Icon and Norwest as well as TDG doing well; Respectable paper trading gains.

Presents information on Australian company Biotech International. Comments on the company from Technology Transactions; Established operations in over-the-counter pharmaceutical products and specialist biochemical reagents; Indian joint venture with the B230 enzyme for the reduction of chemicals in paper production.

Reports on the introduction of `choice of fund' legislation to superannuation accounts in Australia and how employers and employees can prepare themselves for the impact. Control of superannuation being handed over to individuals; Details on the proposed legislation; Comments from Garry Weaven of Industry Fund Services (IFS); Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees' (AIST) paper on the British superannuation experience.

Reports on Don Mercer's work at the National Office of the Information Economy in Australia in helping to develop the coalition government's information technology (IT) policy. White paper on IT by United States presidential advisor, Ira Magaziner impressing Mercer; Importance of developing an IT policy to be carried on by future governments; Prime Minister John Howard's industry policy statement.

Reports on how two of Australia's largest property owners are tightening their compliance programs to ensure that their investments do not breach environmental standards. Efforts of AMP Asset Management Australia; Comments from business development manager, Hugh Hollier; Environmental issues including paper recycling, noise and dust; Lend Lease Property Management's environmental program.