Stoned Week planned
By Freya Pinney
BRISBANE — The focus of the University of Queensland's O-Week and Recovery Week in 1994 is the decriminalisation of marijuana. This will culminated in the organisation of a Stoned Week, including a
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Protests over Bougainville
Around 30 protesters picketed the AMP building, home of the mining giant CRA, in Brisbane on February 10. The protest, organised by the Bougainville Freedom Movement as part of a national day of action, aimed to
By Dave Riley
BRISBANE — Crime waves make good copy. Journalists can spice up a story with charges of gangsterism and thuggery after stopping off at the media liaison section of the Queensland Police Force.
Regardless of the recent
A special greeting to those readers who are reading Green Left Weekly for the first time this week — especially to those who bought this copy at university O-Week, or received it on joining the radical youth organisation Resistance.
You are
By Chris Spindler
ADELAIDE — When state parliament convened on February 9, it started to bring home the dramatic changes the new Liberal government intends to make in favour of employers, at the expense of the public and workers.
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Generation gap?
As the backlash outlined by Susan Faludi continues, there has been a rush of articles about the new feminism. Well known — or soon to be well known because they are well publicised by the establishment media and academic world
Marina Carman
Population: no simplistic solutions
We live in a world in crisis. A world plagued by pollution of air, seas, land, food and drinking water. A world of ozone depletion, deforestation and global warming. It's an international
Blowpipes and Window Frames
Dateline, SBS TV
Saturday, February 19, 7 p.m. (6.30 Adelaide)
Researched and produced by Matthew Carney
Reviewed by Jill Hickson
This film, on the devastation in Sarawak caused by the logging of the
Open Learning — The Collapse of Communism — A Triumph for the West? — One for the early riser. A number of historians have declared the "end of ideology"; assessing this claim, the program looks at the role of the US as world cop in a more
By Paul Oboohov
SYDNEY — Liberal and National Party backbenchers in the state parliament are trying to stop the declaration of 350,000 ha of 11 remaining wilderness areas in NSW, or water them down. These areas were announced for declaration
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