By Rachel Evans
MELBOURNE — Environmentalists have been sharply critical of the federal government's decision to renew 11 woodchipping company licences on December 22. The renewals came despite organisations such as the Wilderness Society and
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Tina Modotti: Photographer and Revolutionary
By Margaret Hooks
Pandora, 1993. 227 pp., $45 (hb)
Reviewed by Phil Shannon
In 1991, a photograph of a rose fetched $165,000 at a Sotheby's art auction. Not such an unusual example of the
By Kim Spurway
SYDNEY — A five day festival celebrating community television, community arts and community issues will be held at the Bondi Pavilion, Bondi Beach, Wednesday-Sunday, February 2-6.
Titled, "Small Screen: Big Picture", the
Life or death
[Brandon Astor Jones, who writes the weekly Looking Out column from his cell on death row in the United States, has sent us the following appeal. We urge those readers who are able to do so to respond.]
Judge P. Harris Hines,
In letters sent to the press, to ministers and Knesset members, soldiers from different units complained that they had been ordered to stand aside as rampaging settlers dragged Palestinian motorists out of their cars, beat them up and set the cars on
Brisbane Watch-house picket
By Lynda Hansen
BRISBANE — One hundred people gathered outside the Brisbane City Watch-house on Sunday, January 16, the same lockup to which Daniel Yock was brought after being arrested late last year.
The
By Frank Enright
"The war on Bougainville is the longest and bloodiest in the Pacific since World War II, and has cost thousands of lives. Little is known about the five year war because of a blockade imposed by Papua New Guinea on the island
The Coming Out Show — The Life of Gloria Lee, an 85 year-old whose mother was an Aboriginal woman of the Western Arrente people; her father was Chinese. This programs follows Gloria through her childhood in Alice Springs, her adolescence in China
Ozone loss to get worse
A major report by scientists for the British Department of the Environment, published on January 20, shows that "ozone loss is expected to become worse before recovery occurs" and that HCFCs (CFC replacements) will extend
By Richard J. Barnet and John Cavanagh
A few hundred TNCs [transnational corporations] dominate the four intersecting webs of global commercial activity on which the fate of the world economy rests. Such TNCs exert a more profound influence on
Cuba, Colombia sign health accords
HAVANA — The governments of Cuba and Colombia signed several important cooperation accords in the area of public health on January 10.
According to one of the agreements, Colombia will purchase 2.5
CAPOW conference
By Kath Tucker
The first conference of the Coalition of Australian Participating Organisations of Women (CAPOW) was very successful, conference organiser Ingrid Fitzgerald told Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly.
CAPOW is a network of
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