The Environmental Youth Alliance organised protest actions in most capital cities during October on the theme "People against pollution". In Brisbane 50 people gathered in the Queen Street Mall, for an environmental speakout on October 23. Following
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By Ossi Rask
Something is wrong. It has something to do with the unofficial slogan of the lower-level bureaucrats: "The more chaos, the better".
The gross national product of China last year grew by 12.8%. In the first quarter of this year
By Helen Shaw
and Duncan Chapple
LONDON — In the largest anti-racist mobilisation in Britain since the 1970s, 50,000 mainly young people marched in protest towards the British National Party headquarters on October 16. The march's progress
What is it about rap that I like — The second part of this feature on rap and hip hop music looks at rap in Australia and how local youth are adapting this African American art to their own needs. ABC Radio National, Friday, November 5, 7.10 p.m.
By Wendy Robertson
MELBOURNE — The consultants who reported that Mobil's Williamstown refinery expansion plans did not meet state safety guidelines have reversed their findings following a demand by the Victorian government that they review
By Frank Noakes
AUCKLAND — Matiu Rata, leader of the Maori party Mana Motuhake, has an infectious enthusiasm. A candidate for the Alliance, of which his party is a constituent member, Rata is no newcomer to politics: a minister for Maori
Back to the trenches
"Our willingness to compromise has been callously rejected. We will not stand by and allow the irreplaceable old growth and wilderness forests of the south-east to be trashed by the woodchip industry. It's back to the
By Norm Dixon
The Bougainville Revolutionary Army has claimed it has uncovered a Papua New Guinea Defence Force plot to kidnap the Bougainville Interim Government's representative in the Solomon Islands, Martin Miriori. Miriori has been the
Jervis Bay strike near victory
By Russell Pickering
WOLLONGONG — An end is in sight for the strike by 24 civilian support workers at the naval training base, HMAS Creswell, Jervis Bay.
The workers have been on strike and have
Meat
If you go down to the meatworks today this is what you'll find. A large tilting steel floor upon which sheep are herded then electrocuted. Perhaps you might see a large bull shot with two or three bolts and yet still desperately trying to
By Bronwen Beechey
MELBOURNE — Since its launch in 1991, the yearly production of the Women's Circus has been an eagerly awaited event. Audiences have been thrilled by the celebration of women's diversity, vitality and strength in the previous
By Poul Funder Larsen
MOSCOW — "In general the left is in an extremely difficult position, particularly as regards the coming elections, which by all accounts will be a farce ... We are facing a nearly impossible choice. Either we stay out and
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