Nearly 25% of the Australian population lives in rented accommodation. Almost all will be affected by the federal government's proposal to slash $500 million (50%) from its housing budget. The government
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In his budget speech, treasurer Peter Costello admitted without hesitation that unemployment will "probably remain at around 8%". (The latest ABS figures estimate 8.6%, roughly 780,000 people.) After decades of promises by the
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On September 1, visiting environmentalists Ravi Agarwal from the Indian non-government organisation Srishti and Von Hernandez, Greenpeace's south-east Asia toxics campaigner based in the Philippines, launched a campaign to
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A recently released Australian Conservation Foundation report accuses BHP of planning to recreate the environmental and social disaster of the Papua New Guinea Ok Tedi mine, this time in the tiny Caribbean island of Dominica. ACF
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Just three years after decisively rejecting Liberal leader John Hewson's Fightback! strategy at the polls, the Australian people are having it foisted on them again, this time by a smarter John Howard, who concealed it beneath a
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Women workers under fireThe federal sex discrimination commissioner, Sue Walpole, last month announced new "codes of practice" for employers on sex bias in the workplace. Walpole will carry out nationwide, random audits of
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ACF submits plan for 'environmentally friendly' budgetFor the first time since they were elected to federal parliament, the WA Greens did not make a federal budget submission this year. Like the Australian Greens, the WA Greens
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On July 5, Michael Anthony Blackman was found hanging in the hospital ward at Lotus Glen Prison in Mareeba, Queensland. He was 26 years old. Blackman's death mirrors the circumstances surrounding the death by hanging two days
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The illusions of many environmentalists, including some key leaders of the peak environment groups, that the Liberal and National parties' pre-election rhetoric indicated a greener, environmentally more conscious and responsive
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On July 3, federal cabinet approved a 12,000 cut in the 1996-97 immigration program. In a tone reminiscent of his 1988 One Nation policy which called for reduced Asian immigration, John Howard announced the latest changes,
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SYDNEY — An alliance of peak environment groups released a Forest Reserve Plan for NSW on July 10. It was submitted to the state government as part of the public consultation phase of the Carr government's forest policy. The
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On June 21 Greenpeace released Dioxin Factories, the first major report documenting dioxin pollution in Australia, and called on the federal government to legislate immediately for a national pollutant inventory. The establishment