BY LESLIE RICHMOND
ADELAIDE â Five hundred people marched on Glenelg's Grand Hotel
on June 4 to denounce an official government World Environment Day conference.
Rally organisers called Adelaide's official host city status a farce
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Peanut butter and pineapple rings
Did ya see it? I certainly did. You wouldn't catch me missing an event like that. Not in a million years. Came right up the main street, it did. In cooee of our front gate. The kids were so THRILLED. Their
BY MELANIE GILLBANK
The Peoples' Forum 2000 and the mass protests which followed, in Chiang Mai, Thailand, in early May, were born of suffering, anger and betrayal. Twelve hundred people attended the forum to share their stories of hardship and
'Stop the war!'
The Eritrean community rallied in Brisbane on June 6 chanting "We want peace, stop the war!" and demanding humanitarian assistance from the federal government for those suffering in Eritrea. Since Ethiopia began a massive military
A Month in the CountryBy Brian Friel, after TurgenevSydney Theatre CompanyDrama Theatre at the Opera HouseUntil July 15 Review by Mark Stoyich
Three examples of recent translations of foreign classics have given Sydney audiences a chance to see how
Fijian community leader calls for democracy's restoration
BY GRAHAM MATTHEWS
BRISBANE â Fifty two homes have been broken into. Families are
fleeing into the bush. Cattle are being slaughtered and police vehicles
are being used for
Kumarangk 'Karaoke and Kake'
ADELAIDE â Once upon a time, a large number of people who spoke out against
a proposed bridge to Kumarangk (Hindmarsh Island) were sued by the developers
of a marina on the island. Defamation Magic turned them
Student union refuses affiliation to political clubs
BY RUTH RATCLIFFE
CANBERRA â Citing its policy of refusing to affiliate any club deemed
political, the University of Canberra Union n(UCU) has rejected an application
for
BY MARGARET ALLUM
As a group, indigenous people are disadvantaged relative to other
Australians with respect to a number of socio-economic factors, and these
disadvantages place them at a greater risk of ill health and reduced well-being
BY SEAN HEALY
A mass break-out by 700 asylum seekers imprisoned in three separate
detention centres in South Australia and Western Australia has left federal
immigration minister Philip Ruddock desperate to salvage his government's
widely
SERBIA: Students lead anti-Milosevic protests
Isolation, skyrocketing poverty, unemployment rates of almost 70% and
an infrastructure devastated by NATO's bombing last year has left Serbia
in a worse state than its notoriously poor neighbour
"The only solution I can see is to hold a series of long and costly
negotiations in exotic locations, in order to put off finding a solution",
reads the caption of a Climate Action Network (CAN) cartoon lampooning
the 12th session of the
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