Pip Hinman

  • Report prepares ABC privatisation

    There's a perception that the ABC has been spared because the Mansfield inquiry did not recommend further budget cuts and opposed the introduction of sponsorship and advertising. This is dead wrong. The ABC is facing the biggest

  • Greenpeace to document Antarctic climate change

    Greenpeace to document Antarctic climate changeIn an attempt to pressure governments to set greenhouse targets, Greenpeace has embarked on a four-week expedition to document emerging signs of climate change in the Antarctic. The

  • Experts say budget leaves poor worse off

    The $7 billion of cuts in last year's federal budget were obviously going to have a worse impact on the poor. A study commissioned by the Australian Council for Social Service (ACOSS) and the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU)

  • Behind the racist lies about Wik

    The misinformation and hysteria surrounding December's High Court judgment on Wik has reached epic proportions. Federal and state governments and their supporters in the mining and pastoral industries have

  • Greens protest funding cuts

    Greens protest funding cutsEnvironmental organisations and the Greens (WA) have condemned the Howard government's decision, announced on January 16, to cut funding to voluntary conservation groups. Greens (WA) Senator Dee Margetts

  • Australia, US ensure weak nuclear test treaty

    The Coalition government is attempting to squeeze maximum political mileage from the adoption of a resolution it submitted to the UN General Assembly on September 11. The resolution called for the signing of the Comprehensive Test Ban

  • Cuts target the poor, vulnerable

    Welfare rights groups have criticised the budget, saying that more than 30% of the expenditure cuts unfairly target people on low incomes. Michael Raper, director of the NSW Welfare Rights Centre, described the new social security

  • India blamed, but US continues nuclear proliferation

    With negotiations over the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty stalemated, India is being made out as the major obstacle to the world ridding itself of nuclear weapons. It would be far more accurate to blame the biggest nuclear power, the

  • Coalition feigns anti-nuclear stand

    Coalition feigns anti-nuclear standIn an apparent about-face, the federal Coalition government has welcomed the report from the Canberra Commission on the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons. According to Alexander Downer, the report

  • ATSIC cuts: 'a tragedy in the making'

    The government's decision to slash the budget of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) is petty and racist. In national monetary terms, the government's "saving" of $400 million over the next

  • Call for nuclear test ban treaty

    While China has said it will undertake a nuclear testing moratorium from July 30, nuclear disarmament campaigners in Australia warned that the July 29 nuclear test at Lop Nor may not be China's last and called on all nuclear weapons

  • Subsidising environmental destruction

    A report commissioned by the federal environment department in 1994 has revealed that taxpayers are subsidising industries that damage the environment to the tune of $5.7 billion a year. Subsidies to the Use of Natural Resources sheds