Dissident author receives literary award
Pramoedya Ananta Toer, one of Indonesia's foremost authors, was chosen on July 19 to receive this year's Ramon Magsaysay Award for his work in journalism, literature and creative communications, and
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@f24 = Anger at ship dumping
By Ben Courtice
HOBART — The wreck of the BHP ship Iron Baron on July 10, and the resultant slick of 300 tonnes of fuel oil off the north coast of Tasmania, is one the state's worst environmental
By Phil Shannon
Most people now agree that the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 50 years ago was a tragedy. But for 50 years, the myth that it was also necessary has been argued by political and military supporters of nuclear weapons. All
Trading Hazards: the export of toxic waste to the Third World
By Karen Medica
Research and Policy Unit, World Vision Australia, 1995
Reviewed by Lisa Macdonald
Trading Hazards is the second monograph in an "Issues in Global
@column = At the end of June, Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly sent a letter to each of our subscribers. In the letter, we pointed out that the end of the financial year was approaching, and that we were behind schedule on our fundraising. We needed to draw on the
By Zohl de Ishtar
"We have come to protect you and bring you civilisation and peace." These are the words the French used in 1843 when 500 armed troops, under cover of four warships, marched through Tahiti, arrested Queen Pomare IV (queen
@lhead = Law and Aborigines
@letter = Let us find a way to incorporate Aboriginal customary law into our justice system.
@letter = There have been many examples of ethnic or religious minorities having a large degree of autonomy
Japanese government punished for air pollution
By Eva Cheng
In a landmark court ruling on July 5, the Japanese government and its Hanshin Expressway Public Corporation were ordered to pay 65 million yen to 18 victims — some of
By Norm Dixon
Spanish Socialist Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez knew of the activities of state-sponsored death squads which murdered dozens of Basque refugees in the 1980s, according to a senior politician who oversaw the death squads'
By Eva Cheng
In 1963, when the United States, the Soviet Union and Britain announced their plans to stop atmospheric nuclear tests, the French governor of Tahiti claimed, "Not a single particle of radioactive fallout [from France's pending
By Alice Davis
ADELAIDE — The royal commission into the Hindmarsh Island bridge fiasco was jolted on July 27 by the one of the key governmental witnesses' withdrawal of his statements. Doug Milera's earlier claims that Aboriginal women's
Reflection
By Shane Riley
@poetry = One dream
@poetry = of freedom returned
@poetry = The way of our people
@poetry = our religion, our culture
@poetry = The land we roamed
@poetry = for over 40,000
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