By Penny Saunders
Decriminalisation of prostitution continues to be debated in the South Australian parliament, and it is expected that this issue will gain momentum in the coming weeks.
On February 9 Mark Brindal, a Liberal backbencher,
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By Chris Martin
Released last week, the federal government's review of its five-year National Aboriginal Health Strategy has added more detail to the picture emerging from various state studies of a permanent and deepening Aboriginal health
ADELAIDE — A cross campus network has been formed following a meeting of around 40 people on February 13. The CCN will be organising South Australia's involvement in the two National Days of Action, called by the No Fees Conference held in
Poll after poll reaffirms that Australians, by and large, want the remaining stands of old growth forests protected. The Herald-McNair poll, released on February 15, revealed that nearly half the population want export woodchipping phased out by the
By Bruce Marlowe
What are the real economics of Australia's woodchipping industry? Answering this apparently simple question is no simple matter, because much of the corporate data is secret, and vital government information has been declared
Government blamed
Twenty conservationists occupied the Eden office of the NSW Forestry Commission (State Forests) on February 15 to focus attention on those responsible for the decision to target high conservation value compartments which are
World Orders, Old and New
By Noam Chomsky
Pluto Press, 1994 311 pp., $34.95 (pb)
Reviewed by Phil Shannon
"The roots of policy lie deep in firmly established institutional structures of power". Chomsky's latest expedition to uncover the
By Norm Dixon
MADRID — "In Spain we are living in the final part of a period that began in 1982, when the Socialist Party [PSOE] came into government. In the beginning, people had many illusions, many hopes for change. Those illusions are
Child-care
By Kath Gelber
The federal government's decision to shelve the proposal to means test the child-care rebate was made much more on the basis of economics than on social justice. Economists warned the move would not bring a
Rally defends health system
by Janet Parker
SYDNEY — One thousand pensioners, health and community workers from across NSW rallied here on February 11 against the dismantling of the public health system.
A lively contingent from the
Paris is Burning — Award-winning documentary that examines the art of "voguing" and its origins in the black and Latino gay communities of the United States. ABC TV, Friday, February 24, 1am.
Actively Radical TV — Community television's
In a surprise address televised on the evening of February 9, Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon announced that he had issued orders to arrest several leaders of the rebel Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN).
Zedillo said
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