By Karl Miller
SYDNEY — "After twenty years of conflict, division in local communities and environmental destruction, the South East Forest Protection Bill gives Australia its best chance to free the forests of the bulldozer and chainsaw and
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Amazon peoples take Texaco to court
By Penny Saunders
QUITO — Representatives of several groups of indigenous peoples from the Ecuadorian Amazon region left for New York on November 3 to begin court action against the US oil company
John Romeril
Edited by Gareth Griffiths
Australian Playwrights Series, No. 5
Editions Rodopi B.V. 1993
Reviewed by David Adamson
This is a generous, well-compiled and broad-ranging account of one of Australia's most significant and
Bougainville Tent Embassy
CANBERRA — Medicines donated by organisations, doctors and hospitals were delivered to the Bougainville Tent Embassy in front of Parliament House here on November 4. Alan Coe, representing the Victorian Aboriginal
Amnesty International has criticised UN forces in Somalia after receiving reports of killings and unjustified detentions by UN troops. AI says the reports indicate breaches of human rights.
Hundreds of Somalis have been detained for short
Just right for the stocking
Black 'n' White 'n' Green
Edited by George Hirst
Envirobook, 1993. 128 pp. $14.95
Reviewed by Allen Myers
The subhead says it all: "Australia's top cartoonists draw the line on the environment". This is a
By Adam Hanieh
Until now there hasn't been much you can do with a TV: you either sit and watch it, or you turn it off. This is all about to change. Telecommunications is undergoing the most dramatic changes in its history, and the corporate
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — For Russian trade unions, the coup d'etat launched and consolidated by President Boris Yeltsin between September 21 and October 4 dramatically increased the difficulties of defending jobs, wages, social benefits and
By Kirsten Dunlop
The birth of a journal is not unlike the birth of a star: it happens all the time and goes unnoticed by a vast majority of the population. It is rare for a journal to be born which has a potential for a stellar existence. Siglo
A week before the New Zealand election poll, which returned two candidates from the Alliance, we received a letter from Lyndsay McAteer, administrative assistant of the NewLabour Party, one of the parties that make up the Alliance. It read in part:
Powerful arguments
"When you get into Cabinet, if you don't have the support of the prime minister, at the end of the argument you don't win." — Health minister and numbers man Graham Richadson.
What a relief
"Pentagon officials now
Hospital workers resist contracting
By Roberto Jorquera
MELBOURNE — Health Services Union (HSUA) members at the Austin Hospital voted on November 11 to "commence a campaign of industrial action" until the hospital management agreed to a
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