GREG OGLE reports on the Hiroshima and Nagasaki peace conferences and rallies in Japan which he attended earlier this month as a representative of the Australian Peace Committee. Justice will only be done for the Hibakusha — the survivors of the US
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By Kath Gelber
As machinations continue over the development of guidelines for the new Non-Violent Erotica (NVE) category for film and video, public access to a range of erotic films and videos looks set to be drastically reduced. Following its
By Sarah Stephen
One hundred years ago, women who wanted to educate themselves were sneered at and called "blue stockings". This label accused them of masquerading as men — at the time, male intellectuals were depicted as wearing blue
Greens, socialists contest NT election
In the Northern Territory elections on August 30, one Democratic Socialist and two Greens candidates will challenge the Country-Liberal Party's anti-native title and Labor's "law and order" scare campaigns.
By Sylvia Hale
SYDNEY — Marrickville Council at its August meeting unanimously declined to ban Pauline Hanson's One Nation party from using council facilities. Ashfield Council had, only weeks before, voted unanimously to support such a ban.
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
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
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
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
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