A Fate Worse than Debt
By Susan George
Penguin Books 1990 300 pp., $17
Reviewed by Jack Lance
In A Fate Worse than Debt George analyses the structure of global debt and its effects on all of us — the main ones being poverty,
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Good listening music
Twelve Songs
By Enda Kenny
Blues for Thought
By Terry Evans
Larrikin Records
Reviewed by Cathy Lawrence
Twelve Songs is a collection of good listening music in the tradition of folk and blues. Each song
PT launches Brazilian agriculture program
On July 24, the Brazil Popular Front, the coalition supporting the Workers Party (PT), launched its program for Brazilian agriculture — Land, Work and Food for Brazilians — in two regions with a
Many of the main voices in the drive for "sustainable development" have an agenda that most environmentalists would reject if it were made explicit. DR SHARON BEDER, of the University of Wollongong's Department of Science and Technology Studies,
Protest at new PNG logging rules
By Ana Kailis
BRISBANE — On August 9, 30 people picketed the Papua New Guinea consulate in protest of the Timber Supply Agreement (TSA), soon to be ratified by the PNG government. The picket was organised
ADELAIDE — An August 11 Adelaide university debate on women's rights to abortion, Resistance and the pro-choice campus clubs versus the "pro-life" group, ended abruptly when National Action forced its closure. National Action, an extreme right-wing
Civil liberties under threat
By Jeff Sparrow
MELBOURNE — In what civil liberties campaigner Tim Anderson describes as "The most important political frame-up of the decade", the trial of the "Austudy Five" begins on August 29. The Austudy
By Mairi Petersen
SHELLHARBOUR — For the past ten years the right-wing Labor-controlled Council here has been promoting a plan to destroy a 780-metre popular family beach at South Shellharbour near Wollongong by building a boat harbour.
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — The 11 miners buried underground after an explosion at the Moura No 2 coal mine on August 7, along with their suffering families, are the victims of the profit drive of BHP and other corporate mining giants.
Twinkletoes
Lion Theatre, Adelaide
Starring Carol Scarlan
Reviewed by Stephen Spence
Jennifer Johnstone's Twinkletoes is about "everything and nothing".
Carol Scarlan's strong performance of this piece for the Third International
Police powers questioned after night club raid
By Scott Lewington
MELBOURNE — Forty armed police burst into popular city gay and lesbian nightclub, Tasty, on August 7, detaining 463 patrons and staff for up to three hours and strip
1500 rally for the forests
By Stephen Robson
PERTH — Undeterred by driving rain, 1500 people attended the Gathering for the Forest in Forrest Place on August 9. The rally called on the federal government to stop woodchipping in old growth
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