GLW issue 170, published 1994-12-07.

Air pollution and asthma

By Herbert Beauchamp Australia has the dubious honour of having the highest incidence of asthma in the world. Twenty-five per cent of children in Australia have asthma, and the rate has doubled over the last 10 years. To the well-known

Lesbians and the media: the price of visibility

The good, the bad and the gorgeous: Popular culture's romance with lesbianism Edited by Diane Hamer and Belinda Budge Harper Collins, 1994. 253 pp., $24.95 (pb) Reviewed by Kath Gelber With all the fuss about lesbians in popular culture

Nostradamus' Media Watch

By Craig Cormick Based on highly reliably international contacts, leaked documents and horoscopes from several TV magazines, Nostradamus' Media Watch presents a highly accurate forecast of political events across the globe. Downer offered

TOES: prophets, populism or a green left perspective?

By Greg Ogle While Paul Keating was holding his November 24-25 national strategies conference, there was another economic forum addressing the problems confronting Australia. This was, literally, The Other Economic Summit (TOES), a people's

Further

Australian News

NSW bills target young people

By Rebecca Collerson SYDNEY — A new bill, and proposed changes to others, as part of the NSW Liberal government's law and order campaign have been diluted following pressure from the public. However, police powers regarding young people and

Indonesian unionist in Australia

DITA SARI, the general secretary of the Centre for Indonesian Working Class Struggle (PPBI), is completing a visit to Australia to attend the Indian Ocean Trade Union Conference in Perth and to address several public meetings, including the December

Further Australian News

International News

Development and poverty in PNG

On tour in Sydney and speaking at the PNG Forest Benefit gig at the Harbourside Brasserie on Sunday, December 4, is Father Robert Lak, a prominent radio personality and founder of the development and political activist organisation Doa Foundation. He

World Cuba Solidarity Conference

HAVANA — The World Cuba Solidarity Meeting wound up on November 25, after five days of debates, speeches and the work of different commissions. The final declaration of this unprecedented event stated: "... we 3072 participants representing

Further International News

Editorial

Tax the rich

Tax the rich We've had the recession that we had to have and now, just when we thought it was safe to go out, Treasurer Willis, Prime Minister Keating and Reserve Bank governor Fraser are concurring with business economists on the tax increases

Cultural Dissent

Three intellectuals of the left

Representations of the Intellectual: The 1993 Reith Lectures By Edward W. Said Vintage, 1994. 90 pp., $12.95 (pb) Styles of Radical Will By Susan Sontag Vintage, 1994. 274 pp., $12.95 (pb) Revolutionaries: Contemporary Essays By

A Greek-Latin collaboration

A Greek-Latin collaboration By Vannessa Hearman MELBOURNE — Following last year's success of the performance of Pablo Neruda's Canto General, this year Canto Coro will be accompanied by the Australian Greek Choir to present Axion Esti.

Further Cultural Dissent

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