By Lisa Macdonald SYDNEY — On October 28, a conference titled "International Year of Tolerance: Just words or action?" will be held here. The conference is organised by students from the Department of Welfare at the Sydney Institute of Technology
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By Craig Cormick Based on highly reliable international contacts, leaked documents and horoscopes from several TV magazines, Nostradamus' Media Watch presents a highly accurate forecast of political events across the globe. French foreign minister's
By Alex Bainbridge NEWCASTLE — Academic work bans were lifted at Newcastle University on September 21 following the abolition of promotion quotas by the university council the previous day. Bans had been in place for four months following a
By Robert Rosen and Eve Sinton The Big Australian has been in the headlines. First, the oil-spill off Tasmania from stricken ore ship Iron Baron, and then revelations that BHP's lawyers had drafted their own legislation in Papua New Guinea. The
Visionary "If we stick to these hard-core issues, we are going to win the next election and we're going to continue to have the most visionary prime minister Australia has ever had." — Former NSW premier Neville Wran, waxing lyrical at the state
By Maureen Baker and Sean Magill PERTH — A ceremony to commemorate the anniversary of the death of John Pat, who died aged 16 in police custody in Roebourne 12 years ago, was held at Fremantle Prison on September 28. John Pat's mother Mavis and
MELBOURNE — Fourteen people arrested in the campaign to halt the Eastern Freeway extension were sent to trial last week. The Coalition Against Freeway Extensions (CAFE) is organising a rally outside the magistrates' court on October 10 in support
By Ben Courtice HOBART Moves by the federal government to shore up its environment image before the next election have amounted to next to nothing for the Tarkine wilderness area in Tasmania's north-west. The forests of the Tarkine and the Great
Russian nuclear subs: meltdown danger By Renfrey Clarke MOSCOW — At a naval base in the Russian Arctic, decommissioned nuclear submarines lie rusting next to the wharves. Their reactors still contain fuel rods, which emit significant amounts of
By Bernard Wunsch BRISBANE — On October 5 students from 45 different schools walked out of class, and 4000 high school students rallied in the streets. King George Square was filled with young people demanding "Stop the bomb". When the crowd
Write on Gareth Evans I am as outraged at your Gareth Evans competition as I was with my daughter who reckoned GE and Martin Evans vindicate phrenology. "The ducks are on the board Dad", she says. Don't get me wrong, GE has his faults: convoluted
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