Janet Parker

  • Victory for right to choose

    SYDNEY — On May 14, abortion clinic worker Dianne Unger won an unprecedented victory for pro-choice forces. On this day she took her most vociferous "pro-life" opponent — Carolyn O'Loughlin — to court and succeeded in

  • Secret plans to expand Sydney airport

    Secret plans to expand Sydney airportWhile protests by Sydney residents affected by aircraft noise and pollution continue, it has been revealed that the Federal Airports Corporation (FAC) is quietly hatching a plan for a

  • Interview with new NSW Greens MP

    Ian Cohen is perhaps best known for surfing at the bow of a warship in the quest for peace, scaling the chimney of a polluting incinerator to demand its closure and diving into murky waters to protest ocean outfalls. Today he is

  • No Aircraft Noise aims to increase pressure

    SYDNEY — Less than a week after Labor's victory in the NSW election, the Civil Aviation Authority announced that aircraft movements at Kingsford Smith Airport would increase by 50% by the end of this year. New areas will be

  • No Aircraft Noise candidates encouraged by support

    In the face of flagging support for the Labor Party — both state and federal — the federal minister for transport, Laurie Brereton, has announced a budget plan to "fast-track" construction of Sydney's second airport at

  • No Aircraft Noise Party launched

    No Aircraft Noise Party launchedSYDNEY — More than 1000 people packed out Marrickville Town Hall for the launch of the No Aircraft Noise Party on February 21. The new party is contesting six lower house seats affected by

  • Rally defends health system

    Rally defends health systemSYDNEY — One thousand pensioners, health and community workers from across NSW rallied here on February 11 against the dismantling of the public health system. A lively contingent from the

  • Activists discuss solutions to third runway crisis

    The plague of aircraft noise generated by the opening of the third runway at Sydney's Kingsford Smith Airport has generated a protest movement on a scale not seen in many years. The draft environmental impact statement in 1991

  • Anger grows over third runway

    SYDNEY — Anger at the third runway disaster continues to grow. Government promises of enforcing curfews and fining airlines which flout flight paths have proved a sham. The government package, launched with great ceremony

  • Health and airplane noise

    SYDNEY — The plague of aircraft noise generated by the opening of the third runway at Kingsford Smith airport is uniting affected communities in a powerful opposition — one that has NSW Labor politicians running for cover.

  • Corrective Services imprisoned

    Corrective Services imprisonedSYDNEY — Employees of the Department of Corrective Services here were imprisoned for an hour by demonstrators barring the entrance to their offices on September 30. The protest,

  • Pickets oppose uranium mining

    Pickets oppose uranium miningSYDNEY — A "yellow-cake luncheon" was held outside the state Labor Party offices on September 22 to let the ALP know that there is strong opposition to allowing uranium to be