Goss to trade national park
By Maurice Sibelle
BRISBANE — The state Labor government has angered conservationists with a proposal to hand over 60 hectares of Woodwark Bay National Park, north of Airlie Beach on the Whitsunday coast of
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The founding conference of the Alliance 90 Greens Party was held in Leipzig on May 14-16. It marked the unification of the West German Greens and Bündnis 90, from the former East Germany. Frieder Otto Wolfe, a lecturer at Berlin University
By Karen Fredericks
SYDNEY — An attempt by the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) to prevent distribution of a book on wildlife smuggling has been defeated. The book details involvement of NPWS officers in the illegal
Timor vigil
MELBOURNE — Supporters of East Timor are holding weekly vigils outside the Garuda Airlines office to protest against the imprisonment of Xanana Gusmao and other leaders of the East Timorese struggle for independence.
The
By Lyndall Barnett
MELBOURNE — About 600 women and men marched here on June 19 to demand justice for women. Organised by the recently formed Justice for Women Action Collective, the rally protested against the lack of commitment to women's
By Norrian Rundle
MELBOURNE — The second round of Kennett government state school closures is under way. In May the Directorate of School Education issued a paper misleadingly called "Quality Provision of Education in Victoria" which set
Very political tones
Sing Out for Ireland
Wolfe Tones
Distributed by Larrikin
Reviewed by Bernie Brian
The Dublin-based Wolfe Tones have probably been around as long as the Chieftains but are not as well known. Could it have
Benny's Video
Directed by Michael Haneke (Austria, 1992)
With Arno Frisch, Angela Winkler
Premiered in Australia at the 42nd Melbourne International Film Festival
Reviewed by Margarita Windisch
Benny's Video is the second part of a
Leolo
A film by Jean-Claude Lauzon
From late June at Kino, Melbourne
Reviewed by Mario Giorgetti
Canadian writer-director Jean-Claude Lauzon, whose first film, Night Zoo (1987), was well awarded but left many critics unconvinced,
650 attend New Zealand peace conference
By Ciaron O'Reilly
Some 650 New Zealand activists gathered in Wellington for the "Peace, Power and Politics" conference on the queen's birthday long weekend.
The conference was held on the 25th
Protesters stop woodchip train
By Francesca Alice
PERTH — A group of 200 south-west residents and protesters peacefully stopped a woodchip train at Balingup, 200 km south of here, on the afternoon of June 19. The train was on its way
All over the world
Simon Paglia is a volunteer with Saint Vincent de Paul's night patrol in Sydney, which distributes sustenance to the city's homeless. One of these homeless souls belongs to Gerald Franklin. He likes to go about the city
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