A Celebration of Voices
Hundreds gather for a concert in the cityto celebrate treeswhile others gather in the forest, to protest destruction.As the chainsaws advancewe form a human chain around each treesing our songs, chant for
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Chairman Wallop and Chairman Tim
The federal government last week provided, not one, but two ministers to entertain the guests at a conference in Canberra dedicated to preventing any meaningful action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The
Ian Roberts: Finding OutBy Paul FreemanRandom House, 1997, 325 pp.,$29.95 (hb) Review by Phil Shannon
"AIDS will finish you in hell. SODOMIST. An arsehole bandit. You are pure filth and will die SOON!". Thus ran one of the letters to Ian Roberts
Sexuality and youth suicide: Coalition denies reality
By Anthony Benbow
PERTH — Every year in Australia as many people commit suicide as die in road accidents. In Western Australia, in 1995 (the most recent figures), there were 209
Stranger danger
You're not to know, are you? I could have shaken hands with one of them or shared a confessional with another. To go by the news reports, they lurk any and everywhere — just waiting to pounce on the unsuspecting and the
Curragh miners claim victory
By Paul Glenning
BLACKWATER, Queensland — After maintaining a strike and picket for 15 weeks, workers at the Curragh mine have claimed an important victory over management's attacks on the wages and working
Medicare the loser in bid to shore up private health
By Susan Laszlo
Just a few days after federal health minister Dr Michael Wooldridge announced new measures supporting private health insurance, figures released by the Private Health
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — There was a time, about 1991, when only slightly drunk members of Moscow's liberal intelligentsia would exclaim to you across their kitchen tables that Russia was at last about to become a normal country. Enterprises
Festival Records dispute ends
SYDNEY — After 12 weeks on the picket line, workers at Festival Records have won a better redundancy package. Fifty members of the National Union of Workers at the Pyrmont plant were sacked on May 12.
The
By Sarah Stephen and Marina Cameron
On university campuses there have been increasing attacks on the idea of having women's officers and women's rooms. Arguments against women's right and need to organise separately have also been raised. These
What's Up Dockers?SBS TV, Sunday, August 318.30pm (8 in SA)Edited by Channel 4 Strike, the Flickering Flame — A Story of Contemporary MoralityDirected by Ken LoachSBS TV, Sunday September 7 8.30pm (8 in SA)
Review by James Vassilopoulos
Defend the right to protest
ADELAIDE — Some 250 people crowded into the Governor Hindmarsh Hotel on August 17 to support the right to protest. The benefit was to assist activists facing huge legal costs.
Davie Thomason is facing charges
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