Questions on national parks funding
By Darin Huddy
ADELAIDE — Following serious concerns about funding levels to national parks, a federal parliamentary committee has projected that $200 million will be spent nationally on acquiring
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By Norm Dixon
Popular discontent with Zaire's brutal and corrupt dictator, President Mobutu Sese Seko, has again erupted in the streets of the capital, Kinshasa. Soldiers, angered by being paid with worthless banknotes, rose in rebellion.
Jackys Marsh Forest Festival
By Zari Duniam
Surrounded by the Great Western Tiers, the Jackys Marsh Forest Festival was held over four days, January 29 to February 1. A festive atmosphere blended with the tranquillity of the Tasmanian
Young women's sexual health festival
By Carla Gorton
SYDNEY — Information for young women about HIV and AIDS issues will be the main focus of a national festival at Bondi Pavilion on February 19-20.
"Australian studies warn that
By Lyndall Barnett
MELBOURNE — The Kennett government is drafting legislation giving wider stop-and-search powers to Victorian police, despite frequent instances of police harassment and violence coming to light. On January 20 Scott Baker,
By Ray Fulcher
MELBOURNE — A meeting of 1500 union delegates on February 4 voted unanimously for a March 1 stoppage and rally in Victoria against the Kennett government's reactionary policies.
The meeting was considerably smaller than
Labor cuts housing funds
The federal government is to cut $50 million from state-tied housing programs, which will affect low income earners harshly.
For years the New South Wales government has underfunded the community housing sector,
By Pat Brewer
"There is an increase in organised violence against women, internationally and nationally, carried out by political and religious groups for political gain." Marie-Jose Ragab, director of the international division of the
Caput Nullius
Arch-reactionary Bulletin columnist David McNicoll says that he regards the Mabo decision on land rights "reversing the 200 year old policy of terra nullius, as at best questionable and at worst unacceptable." He goes on to
Trammies accept deal with Kennett
By Alex Cooper
MELBOURNE — A mass meeting of members of the Australian Tramway and Motor Omnibus Employees Association on February 4 voted overwhelmingly to accept a deal struck between state secretary
Bob Brown: 'World needs social justice for all'
By Jim McIlroy
BRISBANE — "Social justice will not have been achieved until everyone in the world has social rights and the right to live", Tasmanian Green MP Bob Brown told a dinner for
The Fire This Time: U.S. War Crimes in the Gulf
By Ramsey Clark
New York: Thunder's Mouth Press. 1992. 325 pp. $35
Reviewed by Allen Myers
Ramsey Clark doesn't mince words on the Gulf War. He breathes indignation, backed by facts: "What
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