SYDNEY - A range of exciting projects to develop links between socialists and progressive movements in Australia and around the world was discussed at the Democratic Socialist Party's 15th national conference, held January 3-8.
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PNG agrees to Bougainville peace talksA military stalemate on Bougainville and mounting international pressure have forced the Papua New Guinea government to announce that it will open Bougainville to independent observers
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One of Australia's leading jazz musicians, Vince Jones, has condemned the logging of East Gippsland's old growth forests. What the so-called selective logging really amounts to, he told Green Left Weekly, is mass destruction. And
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With the budget negotiations at a stalemate and the polls showing a rise in support for minor parties and independents, the Labor Party has stepped up its attack on the Green senators. Despite the pressure, Christabel Chamarette
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SYDNEY — Activists from the Bougainville Freedom Movement picketed the regional headquarters of the Australian Defence Force on September 9. They demanded an end to Australia's involvement in Papua New Guinea's attempts to quash
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"Bill Clinton's 'successful' operation in Mogadishu has led to an unknown number of civilian deaths, has undermined the entire relief effort, and alienated the majority of ordinary Somalis from the very people they had hoped had
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NEFA peace plan launchedSYDNEY — A proposal to resolve the decade-long forest dispute in north-east NSW was launched by the North East Forest Alliance on August 25. The proposal meets with the obligations of the
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Senator Christabel Chamarette is bemused by the recent flood of attention that the two federal parliamentary representatives of the Greens (WA) have received from the mass media. She and fellow Green (WA) Senator Dee Margetts
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A two-month long oil spill in the south-eastern part of the Niger delta in Nigeria is wrecking havoc on the local population and ecology. To date, the operating company, Royal Dutch Shell, has done nothing to stop the flow.
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Shell pollutes Sydney HarbourSYDNEY — While more than 10 tonnes of crude oil was spilled in a routine transfer between tankers at the Shell terminal at Gore Cove on July 19, to date, Shell has not been prosecuted.
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The tax on petrol in last week's federal budget received a mixed response from environmentalists. Hailed by the Australian Conservation Foundation as a long-overdue environmental and health reform, Greenpeace and the
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Paul Keating's H.V. Evatt lecture last April — his first detailed public statement on Labor's "republican vision" — was awash with pronouncements about "reconciliation" with Aborigines, entreaties to forge a so-called