By Geoffrey Binder Privatised prisons are already a reality in Australia. There is a new government-built remand centre leased to a private corporation in Brisbane. A new private prison is being built in Junee, NSW, and another in Alice
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Carrying capacity The letters on immigration by Friel, Evans and Kault (GLW #69) only help to discredit the environmental movement. Arguments about "unsustainable Australian population growth", and about a country's "carrying capacity" are
Non-Aligned back Cuba JAKARTA — Washington must end its hostile actions against Cuba, says the Non-Aligned Summit's final declaration. The document, approved by the leaders of the movement's member nations on September 7, states the 30-year
Protests have occurred in a number of Australian cities in response to the unprovoked attack by Ciskei security forces on peaceful demonstrators on September 7, in which 32 people were killed. The South Australian United Trades and Labour
By Dave Holmes For some months now, the nightly television news has been dominated by coverage of Somalia and Bosnia. The famine in the impoverished east African country and the fighting in the former Yugoslav republic have provided viewers
US President George Bush's announcement of a $1.4 billion expansion of the US Export Enhancement Program (EEP) for wheat exports could cut the price of Australian wheat exports by as much as $40 per tonne. The 29 million tonnes of subsidised wheat
Final Exit: The practicalities of self-deliverance and assisted suicide for the dying By Derek Humphry Australian edition prepared by Dr Helga Kuhse Penguin Books, 222 pp. $18.95 Reviewed by Mario Giorgetti After an extraordinary 18 weeks
Will Firth Building bridges From August 5 to 15, some 550 people from 30 countries met in Kaunas, Lithuania, to discuss nationalism in central and eastern Europe. The record participation at this 65th annual congress of the World
Move to impeach Brazilian president RIO DE JANEIRO — A formal request for President Fernando Collor de Mello's removal from the presidency was presented to the national Congress on September 1 by leaders of Brazil's press and bar
ANC representative in Wollongong By Bernie Brian WOLLONGONG — The deputy representative of the African National Congress in Australia, Mahlubandile Radebe, told 200 students at Wollongong University on September 10 that a "soft war" was
Comment by Peter Anderson With federal elections approaching and under the new leadership of Senator John Coulter, the Australian Democrats issued their electoral platform in July. First there was the Liberals' Fightback; then there was Labor's
New report on Dili massacre LISBON — A new report demonstrates that the death toll in the November 12, 1991, massacre of civilians in Dili greatly exceeded the Indonesian government's claim of 50 killed and 90 "missing". The report,
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