Tracy Sorensen

  • World Environment Day actions

    and Tom Flanagan SYDNEY — World Environment Day activities here included a "Confest" on June 2, a day of ecological radio presented by public access station 2SER and an Environmental Youth Alliance demonstration against resource

  • International guests to be conference highlight

    About 1100 participants from around the country came to last year's Socialist Scholars Conference in Sydney, where they were able to hear, meet and discuss ideas with such renowned international guests as Ralph Miliband, Giovanni

  • Wilderness Society slams 'official' day

    SYDNEY — The Wilderness Society's Karen Jurd dismissed the federal government's World Environment Day activities as a "sham". The government was attempting to "jump on the green bandwagon and drive it off the rails".

  • Radio features World Environment Day

    Radio features World Environment DaySYDNEY — Public access radio station 2SER-FM will mark World Environment Day on June 5 with a full day of special programs, reports, interviews, features and music. "Public radio was

  • Abortion drug: doubts about safety

    The abortion drug RU486, developed in France by Dr Etienne-Emile Beaulieu and manufactured by Roussel-Uclaf, has been successfully used by thousands of French women since 1988. Evaluation of the drug for use in Australia has so

  • Thirty years of defending human rights

    Sydney will resound to the sound of pealing church bells for an hour from noon on May 28 to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the human rights organisation Amnesty International. Church services across the country will bring

  • Thousands needed in education

    and Peter Boyle Australian education has been battered almost beyond recognition by 15 years of cutbacks. Just to repair the most recent damage, the NSW Teachers' Federation is demanding the restoration of the 2500 jobs lost in

  • Too many cars?

    The 20th century's dangerous liaison with the car is still going strong. There are more cars now than ever before. A new one comes into the world every few seconds. They are still objects of envy, desire, status and theft. While

  • Bikes and green cars

    "Some cars will always be necessary", says environmentalist Peter Warrington. "We have a country that is so big that we are going to need them. What sort of cars they are and how often they get used is the big question, really."

  • Trading, not trading against

    SYDNEY — Twelve years ago, the World Development Tea Co-operative imported just enough tea from Sri Lanka to fill someone's garage. Today, the non-profit organisation's Tradewinds teas can be found in Coles supermarkets

  • The last days of Hawke's government?

    In her 1983 biography of Bob Hawke, Blanche d'Alpuget noted a word of warning Hawke had given Gough Whitlam during the famous "It's Time" campaign that swept Labor to government in 1972: "Murdoch had barracked hard for Whitlam

  • 'Being in Labor is a matter of managing embarrassment'

    Hawke's maiden speech in parliament centred on unemployment. In March 1983, when he was elected prime minister, there were 650,000 officially out of work. That year, he was moved to tears during a televised discussion about its