By Norm Dixon
Claiming that tough measures are required to impose "law and order" in Papua New Guinea, Prime Minister Paias Wingti recently announced controversial measures which will severely restrict previously accepted human and civil
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The Australian Medical Association and the Colleges of Paediatricians and Obstetricians have commissioned an "Inquiry into Foetal Welfare" by the Faculty of Law at the Australian National University. The primary aim is to determine guidelines of
Rallies commemorate Hiroshima Day
By Pip Hinman
Nearly 50 years after the atomic bomb was dropped on the Hiroshima and Nagasaki, peace activists in Brisbane, Hobart and Sydney rallied to remember those who died and to demand an end to the
By Peter Boyle
An historic meeting of about 500 Aboriginal organisations and communities from around Australia met in Eva Valley in the Northern Territory between August 3-5 to work out a united response to the Mabo case. It firmly rejected
By Dave Riley
Rural Australia, not renowned for subtle language, generated a bumper sticker a few years back. "Eat more meat, you bastards!", it read. "Ten thousand dingoes can't be wrong!"
Crudely put, but the farmers had a point.
By Max Lane
The first meeting between representatives of the Bougainville Interim Government and the BRA with the North Solomons Peace Negotiating and Monitoring Committee (NSPNMC) concluded in Honiara on July 30.
The committee includes
The turnout of over 500 women at the 7th annual gathering of the Network of Women Students in Australia (NOWSA), held at the University of Queensland last month, was the biggest attendance ever for this national gathering of campus-based
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The ugly logic of enterprise bargaining
It appears that the Keating government is about to strike a new deal with the ACTU to allow enterprise bargains to be stitched together without unions. At present the Industrial Relations Commission can
Cutting Edge: The Colour of Gold
SBS Television
Screening Tuesday August 17, 7.30 p.m. (7 p.m. in Adelaide)
Reviewed by Norm Dixon
"We dig out the gold but we have never seen it with our own eyes. So if you tell us about the glitter of
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