By Yvonne Francis
CANBERRA — Jack Mundey addressed a group of conservationists at the Pensioners' Club here on October 14. The environment is the key for the radical left, he said. It is essential that all the environmental groups learn
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For the third consecutive year, on October 26 the United Nations General Assembly approved a resolution demanding that the United States end its "embargo" (really a blockade) against Cuba. Only the US and Israel voted against the resolution. After
Ambitious
"Honest, there really isn't much wrong with our party that winning a federal election wouldn't fix." — Liberal MP Tony Abbott.
Career path
"Unless and until women become more active in the factions, change is not
Adventures in Good Music — New Wine in old Bottles — With Karl Hass. Many composers have paid tribute to times past, but in their own individual language. Today's adventure illustrates the point. ABC Classic FM, Thursday, November 3, 7.05pm.
By Phil Anderson
"Fly Buys. The all new way to earn free air travel." Seductive marketing: simply by doing everyday things like shopping, buying fuel and using your credit cards you can earn free travel. So says the new colourful brochure.
Boycott Beijing campaign
Women internationally are organising to protest at the location of the 1995 United Nations Fourth International Conference on Women, to be held in Beijing. A Boycott Beijing campaign was initiated by women in
By Simon Heath
Multinational logging is now creeping in to destroy the rainforests of the south-west Pacific after timber supplies elsewhere in the world are exhausted or becoming protected.
A particularly horrifying example of
By Deb Sorensen
Arnhem Land: The name conjures up images of a majestic landscape, remote wilderness with special places known only by the descendants of peoples who have dwelt there for tens of thousands of years. Many of us have seen
The seesaw system
The federal Liberal Party is marking a half century since its founding. "Celebrating" would be far too strong a term to describe the party's attitude towards its birthday. Their mood suggests that the Liberal leaders have
ADELAIDE — South Australian Police Commissioner David Hunt is pushing for increased police powers under the guise of a crackdown on bikie gangs. Labelling bikies "marauding people", Hunt said the police would demand legislation to: lower the level
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — Did officials of Russia's Federal Counter-Intelligence Service and of the Defence Ministry organise the murder of a crime-fighting journalist? This is the suggestion — backed by a disturbing volume of
By Liliana Marambio
The technique of embroidering feelings on pieces of sackcloth was born in Chile at the end of the '80s, when the voices of the relatives of prisoners and the "disappeared" of the military regime — the majority of them
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