By Sam Wainwright
BRISBANE — More than 500 people marched and rallied on January 24 against Eastlink, a $1.2 billion project of the Queensland, NSW and federal governments to link the NSW and Queensland electricity grids with 1500 kilometres
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By John Queripel
MANILA — Few people would have thought that just eight years after the 1986 People's Power revolution, the spectre of martial law would again hang over the Philippines. Yet several indications are that this could be the case.
Plutonium waste to pass through Australian waters
By Lisa Renfrey
Greenpeace, the Tasmanian Greens and Greens (WA) Senator Dee Margetts are calling on the federal government to oppose a shipment of high level plutonium waste passing through
How to win the woodchip battle
There's no doubt that the extent of the outrage over the government's woodchip licence decision will force the ALP to come up with a range of "compromises" aimed at the green movement in the lead-up to the next
BRISBANE — "Year after year we keep saying the same things to the government — Aboriginal people want a chance!", Sam Watson of the Aboriginal Legal Service told a rally of 150 people here on January 26, Invasion Day. Other speakers included
Sinead and the Famine
Universal Mother
Sinead O'Connor
Ensign
Reviewed by Tyrion Perkins
Sinead O'Connor's latest album begins with Germaine Greer speaking about women making politics irrelevant by a spontaneous cooperative action.
Disclosure
Directed by Barry Levinson
Written by Paul Attanasio (based on the novel by Michael Crichton)
Starring Demi Moore and Michael Douglas
Reviewed by Karen Fletcher
Backlash films certainly get the blood boiling, but they are also
By Stephen Marks
HAVANA â 1995 has been declared the International Year of Jos Mart¡ and October 8 the possible date of a World Day in Solidarity with Cuba. These were among proposals adopted by the plenary session of the World Conference in
By Alex Bainbridge
— Several unions have threatened to withdraw election funding to the ALP head office unless it agrees to hold a rank and file preselection ballot for the seat of Peats, on the central coast of NSW.
Peats became vacant
NOAM CHOMSKY's January 19 press conference in Sydney covered a range of topics. JOHN TOGNOLINI, who covered the conference for Green Left Weekly and Radio Skid Row, here provides excerpts from Chomsky's answers to a number of questions. Chomsky
A blend of echoes
Echoes Under the Bridge: new world music from BEMAC
Reviewed by Robyn Marshall
This is a new CD from BEMAC, Brisbane's ethnic music centre, the result of a residency and workshops led by Lindsey Pollak over a four-month
By Faruk Avdi
MELBOURNE — "Sustainable forestry — has come to mean the sustenance of a small number of large timber corporations involved in the chipping and pulpwood sectors ... a principal theme of the industry to preserve — or 'sustain'
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