ARTS AND FORESTS.The sustained battle by West Australian West Australian commonly refers to people or things from Western Australia. Specific things to which it may refer include:
v. taint·ed, taint·ing, taints v.tr. 1. To affect with or as if with a disease. 2. To affect with decay or putrefaction; spoil. See Synonyms at contaminate. 3. by the popular media image of feral feral untamed; often used in the sense of having escaped from domesticity and run wild. protesters, men in frocks holding siege in tree tops and so on. That image has recently come under challenge -- a challenge which finds its full expression in the front-page article in the Weekend Australian (26 May 1999). Here, under the title `Tall poppies spring up in forest fight', is an image of West Australian elites foregrounding some impressive Jarrahs. The `tall jarrahs/ poppies' image sends a powerful message to conservative publics, many of whom are now starting to think in terms of environmental efficiency. Indeed, it is more powerful than the West Australian image, published on the same day, titled `Art and cash: a divine combination'. This image attempts the same persuasive agenda. It shows Michael Chaney Michael Chaney may refer to:
As Mr Chaney says, public companies such as Wesfarmers must demonstrate their commitment to being `good corporate citizens ... They cannot shirk shirk In Islam, idolatry and polytheism, both of which are regarded as heretical. The Qu'ran stresses that God does not share his powers with any partner (sharik) and warns that those who believe in idols will be harshly dealt with on the Day of Judgment. their responsibility to the community by pleading economic rationalism'. However, a number of West Australian elites, `good corporate citizens' and blue-ribbon-seat conservatives among them, are objecting to the economic rationalism Economic rationalism is an Australian term in discussion of microeconomic policy, applicable to the economic policy of many governments around the world, in particular during the 1980s and 1990s. which seems to be driving the Regional Forest Agreement and Western Australia's leading timber company, Wesfarmers. Not only are these new conservationists promoting their image in media articles and full page advertisements which list their names, they are boycotting products from Wesfarmers (trade name Bunnings) retail stores because of Wesfarmers' continuing practice of felling precious forest trees for woodchips. Is it a co-incidence that these two carefully constructed media images, representing the views and interests of opposing factions of West Australian elites, appeared in Saturday's papers on the same day? Or does it prefigure pre·fig·ure tr.v. pre·fig·ured, pre·fig·ur·ing, pre·fig·ures 1. To suggest, indicate, or represent by an antecedent form or model; presage or foreshadow: a deeper schism within Western Australia's elite groupings, suggesting the emergence of a new point of resistance within WA's environmental struggles from an unlikely source? |
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