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Petra Kelly on population and hunger

Petra Kelly on population and hunger By Frank Noakes The ongoing debate in Â鶹´«Ã½'s pages about population could perhaps benefit from consideration of what the late German Green Petra Kelly had to say on the topic. Speaking at the

Crunch time for Greens and Democrats

By Peter Boyle and Steve Robson The decline in the third party, and especially Democrat, votes in the federal election, compared to 1990, can be expected to renew the pressures for merger between the Democrats and Bob Brown's Australian

Australians for Genocide Party?

Australians for Genocide Party? By Sarah Harris WOLLONGONG — The candidate of the Australians Against Further Immigration Party for the seat of Throsby, David Hughes, has made a novel contribution to the immigration debate. Hughes

Mashed brains

Brain Sex SBS Television March 21, 7.30 p.m. Reviewed by Karen Fredericks The differences between men's and women's brains are the ostensible subject of the three-part documentary Brain Sex, screened by SBS over the last two Sunday

Goss overrides casino protests

Goss overrides casino protests By Bill Mason BRISBANE — The Goss government is pushing ahead with the controversial Treasury Building casino project, despite Queensland Heritage Council and public rejection of the development. The

Youth speak up in Wollongong

By Sue Humphries WOLLONGONG — Wollongong Resistance had no hesitation in recommending that young people vote for Greens or the Democratic Socialists in last weekend's federal election. This recommendation was announced at a

Wrongly convicted

Tim Anderson Wrongly convicted Gregory Brown, convicted of killing six people in the 1989 "backpackers fire", is innocent. He was wrongly convicted in a juryless trial before Justice Peter McInerney late last year, and will be sentenced

Right wing wages war on Nicaraguan cooperatives

By Stephen Marks MANAGUA — The names of Juan Dávila, Xiomara and Alma Nubia will never be registered in any US State Department "Human Rights Reports". Juan Dávila was shot in the chest by recontras when he answered a late night

Vietnamese statement

Vietnamese statement The Vietnamese Foreign Ministry replied promptly to the charges regarding the three former Vietnamese soldiers. A spokesperson said that "UNTAC itself and Prince Norodom Sihanouk himself have more than once confirmed

Special street theatre

MELBOURNE — Young people lined up to "limbo" under a symbolic "poverty line" at a special street theatre organised by the youth group Resistance in Bourke Street Mall on March 10. Paul Keating and John Hewson, in full electioneering mode, kept

Write on

IRA In response to Norman Taylor's letter (GLW Feb 24), I find it incomprehensible that someone could say National Action and the IRA are similar with their "policy of unending violence". It is obvious that Mr. Taylor has no knowledge of

Flaws in the film of Malcolm X

By Max Lane A recent Newsweek poll found that 84% of African-Americans between the ages of 15 and 24 consider Malcolm X a hero. Spike Lee's film is obviously meant to reinforce this view. In too many ways, however, it fails. Most radical