Pip Hinman

  • Gambling on Labor won't save the forests

    With the March 25 NSW election looming, an important opportunity exists to increase the pressure on both major parties to stop the destruction of our old growth forests. However, given that the woodchipping debate will continue

  • Timber lobby increases threats

    In fear of the political consequences, federal cabinet has been postponing a decision on whether 76 sensitive areas of old-growth forests will be logged. Cabinet is due to make a decision on March 6. The timber industry lobby

  • Woodchipping destroys jobs

    The federal government's capitulation to the timber industry on the pretext of "protecting jobs" has come under increasing criticism. One respected researcher, Dr Clive Hamilton, argues that protection of the 509 coupes would not

  • Woodchip blockade a challenge to greens

    There were angry scenes outside Parliament House last week, as some 4000 timber workers — assisted by their employers — made their demands very publicly. By contrast, the environmental movement has yet to make its presence

  • Unions oppose woodchipping

    In the current debate over woodchipping old growth forests, you'd be forgiven for thinking that the union movement had taken a unanimous position in support of the government's pro-woodchipping policy. This is not the case. The

  • The real cost of woodchipping

    In the last 20 years, many of the world's forest resources have been exploited to the point where they no longer yield old growth timber. The forests of north-west USA, British Columbia and many of the huge tracts of tropical

  • An unsustainable industry

    An unsustainable industryThe case for protecting Australia's old growth forests has tended to focus on the permanent ecological devastation caused by the industry. More recently, mounting evidence suggests that Australian

  • Pilger calls for escalation of East Timor campaign

    SYDNEY — "Australians can be made to understand the problem with trading with Indonesia's genocidal generals", renowned author and film maker John Pilger told a 450-strong meeting here on December 2. "Trade is not the holy grail,

  • Conference calls for a just new world order

    KUALA LUMPUR — "In search of a just world order" was the title and theme of a three-day international conference held here from November 18. Sponsored by the non-government organisation the Jamahir Society for Culture and

  • Melanesian women speak out about choice

    SYDNEY — For both Junilyn Pikacha, from the Solomon Islands Planned Parenthood Association, and Geraldine Maibani-Michie, from the Department of Community Medicine at the University of Papua New Guinea, women's rights are

  • Reclaiming feminism for all women

    We were looking forward to going to a Reclaim the Night march in Sydney. After all, last year's march was a great success. While there had been relatively little advertising, up to 6000 women of all

  • Kidjo has them dancing in their seats

    She's been called the diva of world hip-hop and Afro-funk dance and the new international voice of Africa. But however you choose to describe Angelique Kidjo's music and song, her performance on September 15,