Much of the world is fascinated by the US presidential election campaign.
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Like the good Count of Transylvania, the so-called Doha Round of trade negotiations of the World Trade Organization (WTO) collapsed twice — in Cancun in 2003 and in Potsdam in 2007 — only to come back from the dead.
The conservative Christian group Hillsong has launched a controversial new youth program “Shine”, aimed, it says, at “promoting self-esteem” in teenage girls considered to be “at risk”, due to personal problems or behavioural issues.
Hydrologists such as professors Peter Cullen, Richard Kingsford and Derek Eamus, speaking at public forums in NSW earlier this year, warned that Australians are extracting water from stressed rivers and artesian systems faster than it is being replenished.
Changing Venezuela by Taking Power: The History and Politics of the Chavez Government
By Gregory Wilpert
Verso, 2007
352 pages, $49.95
By Gregory Wilpert
Verso, 2007
352 pages, $49.95
The following call to action has been issued by the Adelaide-based Stop the War Fair committee.
The defeat of the Colorado Party (PC) in the April presidential election meant much more than a change of government in Paraguay.
Cups with no Handles: Memoir of a Grassroots Activist
By Carolyn Landon
Hybrid Publishers, 2008
288 pages, $29.95 (pb)
By Carolyn Landon
Hybrid Publishers, 2008
288 pages, $29.95 (pb)
A flurry of public meetings followed the federal governmentÂ’s green paper on carbon emissions trading. I attended two quite different information sessions in Sydney.
@details = Growing up Asian in AustraliaEdited by Alice PungBlack Inc, 2008, $27.95 (pb)
Internationally, as in Australia, governments forced to promise climate change action have generally promoted market-based carbon abatement schemes, mostly of the “cap and trade” variety. But can we trade our way out of our climate difficulties? Can market mechanisms deal with a problem of such scale and urgency?
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