GLW issue 210, published 1995-11-07.

East Timorese refugee sanctuary network formed

By Lisa Macdonald SYDNEY — Seventeen Christian churches and organisations in Australia last week announced their intention to provide sanctuary for East Timorese refugees under threat of deportation by the federal Labor government. The newly formed

Widening rifts in APEC

By Eva Cheng Preparatory meetings in the lead-up to the Asia-Pacifc Economic Cooperation (APEC) conference scheduled for Osaka, Japan later this month, indicate that the 18 member nations will be unlikely to agree on the timing of the removal of

Looking out: The story of the fruit tree

Well, I'm doing my latest new thing now: growing a sequoia, a redwood ... Is it possible to defy geography and grow this tree here? — Lee May. Lee May, who writes the gardening page for the Atlanta Journal, wonders whether a tree that is native to

Dioxin: more dangerous than we thought

By Peter Montague The word "dioxin" stands for a group of chemicals that occurs rarely, if ever, in nature. A very large proportion of dioxin comes from human sources. Dioxin began accumulating in the environment around 1900 when the founder of Dow

Further

Australian News

Tribute to a tribune

By Bernie Rosen The death of Charlie King, a Rationalist speaker at the Sydney Domain for nearly 34 years, leaves a gap in the intellectual life of our community that will be hard to fill. Charlie took over the platform from his illustrious

Call for uniform anti-discrimination laws

By Kath Gelber SYDNEY — Following the First National Conference on Violence Against Gay Men and Lesbians held here on October 28 and 29, organised by the Australian Institute of Criminology, the Australian Council of Lesbian and Gay Rights (ACLGR)

Further Australian News

International News

The Mexican murder mysteries (Part 2)

Four leading members of Mexico's ruling elite have been assassinated over the past two years. Cardinal Juan Jesus Posadas Ocampo of Guadalajara, Jalisco, and six other people died in a gun battle at Guadalajara's Miguel Hidalgo international airport

Dissident calls for international sanctions against Nigerian regime

By Norm Dixon Wole Soyinka, winner of the 1986 Nobel prize for literature and a prominent democracy campaigner, has called on the international community to take decisive action against the military regime that rules Nigeria. Soyinka, who lives in

Further International News

Editorial

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The November 1 Federal Court ruling against a claim for native title by the Waanyi people of north-west Queensland is a victory for big mining interests. It shows the real colours of a judicial system designed to protect big business "rights" to

Cultural Dissent

A look at Cuba today

By Nikki Ulasowski WOLLONGONG — "Cuba is facing the hardest time ever since the revolution. The government of the United States has tried to isolate Cuba. One side of the counter revolutionaries want to tighten the blockade, they want

Radio highlights

The Box Seat: Seamus Heaney — Heaney was born in 1939 in County Derry, in British-occupied northern Ireland. He now both a professor of rhetoric at Harvard and a professor of poetry at Oxford. His works are richly physical in their depiction of

Further Cultural Dissent

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