Action urgent on greenhouse
Despite the acknowledged reality of global warming and the urgent need for action, the federal government last week reaffirmed its opposition to binding targets for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, which are
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By Alana Kerr
SYDNEY — The Children (Protection and Parental Responsibility) Act 1997 passed in NSW in August gives police extra powers to take young people from public spaces. The law, which contravenes international human rights conventions,
By Boris Kagarlitsky
MOSCOW — In December, Moscow will elect its city duma. In essence, these will be the first real elections for the representative power in the Russian capital since President Boris Yeltsin forcibly disbanded the Moscow City
By David Bacon
OAKLAND — After sitting like a beached whale for four days at the Yusen Terminal in the Port of Oakland, the Neptune Jade finally sailed out of San Francisco Bay early on the morning of Wednesday, October 1. Every one of the
Foreign MoonDirected by Zhang ZemingStarring Vicky Chen Hsiao-hsuen, Harrison Liu and Chen DamingOpens nationally at Dendy Cinemas on October 23 Review by Eva Cheng
According to an old Chinese saying, the moon in foreign countries is
By Justin Harman
When Pauline Hanson wants something done, the Howard government is usually soon there doing it for her. Cuts to ATSIC, the immigration intake: all her wishes are being fulfilled — all, according to a recent New Idea article,
By Gerry Harant
The Melbourne Age has exposed police continuing the spying previously done by the Victoria Police Special Branch, supposedly disbanded by the Cain Labor government in 1983. The revelations caused outrage as well as some amusement
Just when it seemed that a bail-out by the International Monetary Fund was becoming the fashionable thing to do in the Asia-Pacific region, we at Green Left Weekly came to a startling realisation.
We realised that we are not in a position to
By Michael Karadjis
TUZLA — The recent municipal elections throughout Bosnia-Hercegovina reveal a polarisation between the three ethnic-based parties on the one hand, and multi-ethnic or anti-nationalist forces on the other. The victories of
Democratic rights at stake in Basque trial
On October 6, Spain's Supreme Court postponed the start of the trial of 23 national executive members of the legal Basque pro-independence party, Herri Batasuna. Defence lawyers asked that one of the
By Jim McIlroy
BRISBANE — The campaign by Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) members in Centrelink, the federal government's new "one-stop shop" services delivery agency, for improvements in a draft agency agreement, is coming to a
By James Balowski
On September 16, President Suharto publicly apologised to Indonesia's neighbours for the fires which have blanketed large parts of Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines in choking smog. But those who hoped that this was
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