NSW fires a warning of global warming
By Susan Laszlo
The Australian Conservation Foundation claims that the devastating fires in NSW provide a salutary lesson about the potential future impacts of global warming in Australia. According to ACF
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By Lisa Macdonald
GEELONG — More than 400 women attended the sixth Women and Labour Conference at Deakin University on November 29-30. The 65 panel and workshop presentations crammed into a day and a half covered topics as wide ranging as women
By Sarah Peart
During Indonesian President Suharto's recent visit to South Africa and Canada, he faced hundreds of activists protesting against the human rights abuses in both Indonesia and East Timor. These types of actions help maintain
Rally for Indonesian unionists planned
MELBOURNE — As part of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions' human and trade union rights week, the Victorian Trades Hall Council has organised a rally in support of trade union rights in
Ups and downs of scaffolding
Over the last few months, scaffolder and rigger John Tognolini and ABC Radio National's Radio-eye show have made what is probably the first radio documentary about scaffolding. In The Up and Downs of the Scaff Game,
By Norm Dixon
Pauline Hanson's One Nation party is being purged of members of Graeme Campbell's Australia First party and supporters of the Australian League of Rights. Hanson's minders claim that Campbell supporters have attempted to take over One
Government by lies
The Howard government has been completely consistent on one aspect of its effort to amend the 1993 Native Title Act to restrict the land rights of indigenous Australians: whenever it has met opposition to its plans, it has tried
Yes to land rights! No to uranium mining!
Radical documentary film maker DAVID BRADBURY has produced and directed an illuminating new film called Jabiluka. Renowned for Frontline, Nicaragua: No Pasaran and Chile: Hasta Cuando, Bradbury in his
Union supports freedom for political prisoners
By Vannessa Hearman
MELBOURNE — Following an address from representatives of Action in Solidarity with Indonesia and East Timor (ASIET), the Victorian Australian Services Union's Victorian branch
This is it, the last Â鶹ӳ» Weekly with "1997" on its colourful cover.
While those who do the technical work on the paper each week will have a short break from production, they, and the hundreds of other Â鶹ӳ» Weekly distributors here and
Canto Coro in December
By Bronwen Beechey
MELBOURNE—Canto Coro, which last year performed the acclaimed Little City to audiences around Australia, is performing a new program of choral works this month. The 50-voice mixed choir was formed five
A New Australia: Citizenship, Radicalism and the First RepublicBy Bruce ScatesCambridge University Press, 1997261 pp., $29.95 (pb) Review by Phil Shannon
Have you been lashed into a coma by the debate over the Constitutional Convention and whether
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