Frances Daily, St Marys
South Sister, a local icon, tourist destination, recreation area for local residents and source of water for domestic and agricultural/horticultural use, is about to be logged for woodchips.
South Sister forms part of the
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Doug Lorimer
In a March 14 article for the British Guardian, investigative journalist Naomi Klein pointed out that, as the US is increasingly exposed — "Brand USA is in trouble" — as the world's biggest terrorist, it is desperate to rebrand
More than 130,000 high school students walked out of school to join March 8 rallies protesting a new law restructuring schools. The bill cut the number of subjects that schools guarantee to fund to, in effect, reading, writing, calculating and using
On March 16, the US Senate approved opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling, voting 51 to 49 to defeat an attempt to remove ANWR drilling allowance from the budget bill. The oil industry believes that there are billions of gallons
On March 24-28, Sydney will host one of the most significant gatherings of left-wing leaders from Asia and the Pacific in some years. The Third Asia-Pacific Solidarity Conference is being attended by activists from the Philippines to Indonesia, from
Katelyn Mountford
If you followed only the "news" of the mainstream media in recent weeks, you might have been forgiven for assuming that the war on Iraq was over. Only one story was deemed important enough by the news editors of the Fairfax and
Allen Myers, Phnom Penh
The Cambodian government is under pressure to allow a controversial trial of the anti-HIV drug tenofovir. A planned trial of the drug was banned by Prime Minister Hun Sen last August after vocal protests by sex workers, whom
Members of the Gana and Gwi bushmen tribes of the Kalahari used the March 8-12 World Tourism Fair in Berlin to launch a boycott call. The Gana and Gwi are calling for a moratorium on tourist development in the Kalahiri Game Reserve until they are
A gay refugee from Iran is currently being held in South Australia's Baxter detention centre. He is applying for a bridging visa and waiting for his appeal to be heard by the High Court.
The detainee's name cannot be made public, but two Adelaide
I do not knowwhat will happen after I die.I do not want to know.But I would like the Potter to make a whistlefrom the clay of my throat.May this whistle fall into the handsof a cheeky and naughty childand the child to blow hard on the whistle
Norman Brewer, Sydney
"On the hottest day last month, the [NSW] minister responsible for Redfern, Frank Sartor, walked into the offices of the Aboriginal Housing Company [AHC] and dropped a bombshell: he didn't want any Aboriginal housing on the
By Linda Waldron, Melbourne
Young Somali man Hussein Farah, who was at the centre of protests in Footscray in November 2003 against police racism and violence, was acquitted in the Sunshine Magistrates Court on March 4 of charges of resisting
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