Grand Prix protesters inspect 'dust bowl'
By Sean Lennon
MELBOURNE — A thousand people gathered at Albert park on February 18 to inspect the damage caused to the park by construction for the Grand Prix. The protest, organised by the Save
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By Dave Andrews
ROSEBERY — After many years of campaigning by residents, the new Rosebery Community Hospital was officially opened on March 1. The hospital replaces the dilapidated structure that had served the mining communities on Tasmania's
WA teachers fight for wage claim
By Robert Graham
PERTH — State school teachers in WA have launched work bans on voluntary after-hours activities in support of a 20% pay increase. A 600-strong mass meeting of the State School Teachers
During the first years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the general view was that Kazakhstan — a large Asian republic that stretches from the Volga river to China — represented one of the more fortunate parts of the former USSR, writes Boris Kagarlitsky.
By Sean Magill and Maureen Baker
Britain's minister for occupied Ireland, Patrick Mayhew, said last week that there was no question of Sinn Fein, the only Republican party with support throughout Ireland, becoming involved in all-inclusive talks
By Pip Hinman
In fear of the political consequences, federal cabinet has been postponing a decision on whether 76 sensitive areas of old-growth forests will be logged. Cabinet is due to make a decision on March 6.
The timber industry lobby
Poem: Hercegovina
em = By Andelko Vuletic
Translated by Amila Buturovic
Now,
over this very stone,
where the pollen smells,
where the karst is white and the juniper tree is black
where the wolf howls and the snake rattles and
Love, Power and Knowledge: Towards a Feminist Transformation of the Sciences
By Hilary Rose
Polity, 1994. $39.95
Reviewed by Neville Spencer
Hilary Rose covers a diverse spectrum of issues in Love, Power and Knowledge — feminist theories
Choice
"This is a most interesting election from many points of view: the fact we've known about it for so long, the fact that there are no real issues out there ..." â NSW Premier John Fahey on the state elections.
Advice on credit
At the upcoming UN Environment Program (UNEP) Governing Council in Nairobi in May, it is likely that delegates will vote to start the process to change the current voluntary Prior Informed Consent (PIC) procedures for chemicals and pesticides into a
Chechen government appeal
The following statement was received by the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation (UNPO) General Secretariat on February 27 from the government of the Chechen Republic Ichkeria.
The Government of the
Pen friends wanted
[We have received the following requests from prisoners in the United States seeking pen friends.]
When all attempts fail, empty loneliness demands me to try harder. Attractive, caring, compassionate gentleman, w/m on
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