By Shane Hopkinson In early October CRA merged with its parent RTZ to form the largest mining company in the world with an estimated $14 billion in assets. The company also has big investment plans — to the tune of $750 million in Queensland alone
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By Brendan Kays HOBART — For the last two weeks, the Wilderness Society and the Tarkine Tigers have been holding vigils at Parliament House lawns to protest against the destruction fo the Tarkine wilderness. On November 22, 40 people held a "wake"
The Australian Heritage Commission is running a photo competition on Australia's wild rivers. The event is part of a program to identify and conserve this increasingly rare part of our natural heritage. The competition runs until January 29 with
By James Vassilopoulos CANBERRA — The Greens won two Legislative Assembly seats in the ACT elections in February. They were elected on a platform which includes reducing waste, supporting an efficient and clean public transport system, quality
By Alex Bainbridge NEWCASTLE — Forty people protested against the execution of former Ogoni leader, Ken Saro-Wiwa, outside the Shell depot in Broadmeadow on November 23. Demonstrators also condemned the Nigerian government's ongoing repression and
By Kevin Jardine or Mary MacNutt TORONTO — When France and China tested nuclear weapons this year the Canadian government expressed official "regret". However, PM Jean Chretien's effort to sell the Chinese government two nuclear reactors completely
Boycott Shell I was livid at the recent murder of Ken Saro-Wiwa and others in Nigeria. "Saro-Wiwa has led the battle against the oil multinational Shell's environmental vandalism of the Niger Delta region in southern Nigeria — home to 500,000 Ogoni
By Tarquin McPartlan and Vanessa Bushell CANBERRA — The idea of legal distribution of heroin to dependant users has been researched in Australia for the last four years. Some of the results have been used in the creation of heroin programs in
By Peter Montague The attack on the environment by so-called "conservatives" in Congress has caused a radical re-thinking throughout the environmental community. People are recognising that they must stop working alone and start building alliances.
EmmaWritten by Graham PittsDirected by Rosalba ClementeBelvoir Street TheatreUntil December 23Reviewed by Pip Hinman For those of us with a soft spot for things Italian, Emma is an entertaining and humorous look at one family's adaptation into a new,
Beyond Left and Right: The Future of Radical PoliticsPolity Press, 1994. 276 pp.Reviewed by Neville Spencer To most socialists, a title such as Beyond Left and Right, would signal a dosage of fatuous small "l" liberalism. The author of this book
Despite their partial victory won in the Industrial Relations Commission last week, the workers at Weipa remain on strike, determined to stay out until equal pay for equal work is the certain result of their six-week struggle. Green Left Weekly's
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