NAWAL HASSAN OSMAN, founder of the Sudanese Women's Organisation Yed El Marra (Women's Fist), is touring Australia, promoting Community Aid Abroad's Walk Against Want on March 26. Osman is a campaigner against female genital mutilation in Sudan. She
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By Matthew Beager and Bruce Marlowe
The South Australian food poisoning tragedy follows food safety cuts by Liberal state governments. But these cuts have developed alongside federal Labor government attacks on quarantine and food inspection
Owl endangered
One of Australia's rare nocturnal animals, the sooty owl, is in danger of extinction due to the lack of a law to protect it, according to the Concerned Residents of East Gippsland (CROEG).
Scientist Paul Peake, who has spent
Blockade of M2 freeway continues
By Andrew Hall
SYDNEY — A blockade of the M2 motorway by up to 30 community activists has continued since February 12. Protesters say the tollway, in Sydney's north-west, sacrifices community consultation,
Brisbane rally against woodchipping
By Kathy Newnam
BRISBANE — Around 2500 people attended a February 25 rally against woodchipping organised by the Wilderness Society in King George Square.
Leonard Lee, a Brisbane journalist, called
Not a lot has changed
By Brandon Astor Jones
"It is a sad day to stand here in 1994 and talk about racism this pervasive ... not in a foreign country, but right here in [America]" — Keith Carson.
The late Malcolm X referred to black
By Stephen Robson
PERTH — "This must be the largest record of the views of Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islanders which has been made", commented Greens (WA) Senator Christabel Chamarette to Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly.
The Senate's select
BRISBANE — The Council for Civil Liberties has condemned state attorney-general Dean Wells' handling of the proposed new Criminal Code as a disaster and asked Premier Wayne Goss to withdraw it. In a 19-page letter to Wells, council vice-president
SUSAN HARBEN is running for the ALP in the March 25 NSW state elections in the inner-Sydney seat of Bligh. The seat, currently held by independent Clover Moore, is regarded as the "pinkest" seat in Australia. Harben is ex-president of the Sydney Gay
By Craig Cormick
Based on highly reliably international contacts, leaked documents and horoscopes from several TV magazines, Nostradamus' Media Watch presents a highly accurate forecast of political events across the globe.
O.J. Simpson
Sinn Fein conference
On February 26, Sinn Fein held its annual Ard Fheis [conference] in the Mansion House, Ireland's first parliament, at which over 500 delegates voted in support of the IRA cease-fire of September 1. At this conference it was
PNG to gut forest law
By Glen Barry
The PNG timber industry and its political allies have tried repeatedly to undermine forest legislation passed in 1991. Now the new minister of forests, Andrew L. Posai, has proposed that the government
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