By Kathy Ragless For the villagers around the Sikou Gulf on the Andaman Sea in southern Thailand, destruction of the environment is an urgent problem. A non-government organisation, the Yad Fon Association, has been working with the fishing
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By Dick Nichols SYDNEY — Has the State Rail Authority here reached the point of outright sacking of its workers? This would seem to be the message of moves to eliminate 600 cleaning positions prior to privatising all cleaning work on Sydney's
Infant mortality in Latin America (per 1000 live births) Cuba 10.7 Costa Rica 18 Chile 20 Venezuela 35 Colombia 39 Mexico 41 El Salvador 61 Brazil 61 Peru 84 Haiti 94 Bolivia 105
New jobs for forestry workers The South East Forest Alliance has released a proposed jobs package offering income security for workers displaced by the extension of the national parks system under the South-East Forests Protection Bill to be
By Louisa Foley The book Fact and Fantasy File and the Making Sense of Sex Hotline have created a stir among reactionaries in NSW, with the Sunday Telegraph running a campaign against them, Premier Nick Greiner condemning them and Prime
Still defending the '50s By Joy McEntee In Swansea, a small east-coast town near Hobart, the '60s and '70s might never have happened. For the past two years, Denise Power has been fighting the local Glamorgan Returned Services League Club
By Peter Boyle If leaks about the coming federal mini-budget are correct, it seems the ALP left and union and welfare lobbies have got a lot of what they wanted in the form of a $3 billion spending package, largely on railways and other
Cops stole cars By Bill Mason BRISBANE — A storm has erupted here over revelations that police assisted in stealing cars, disposed of them and then even bought some of them for their own use at auction, during the controversial undercover
The Famine Within By Katherine Gilday Canada, 89 minutes, colour From February 21, Valhalla, Sydney, and the Carlton, Melbourne Reviewed by Tracy Sorensen One of the more engaging moments in this devastating film occurs when a girl, perhaps
By Peter Annear SACRAMENTO — Exhilarating, challenging and touched by tension and trepidation were some of the phrases used here to describe the first conference of the California Green Party following its official registration as a state
Cuba is facing its worst economic crisis since the 1959 revolution, as a result of the US blockade and the collapse of economic relations with eastern Europe. MIKE TREVASKIS, who visited in December and January, reports on the measures Cubans hope
By Steve Painter As the green movement grapples with problems of economics and sustainable development, it is becoming fashionable in the big business media to dismiss greens as "witch-doctors" and their proposals as economic sorcery. Given the
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