Time to end the profits blow-out
"Companies don't invest in new projects for the public interest or the national good, they do it if they think the project will make a quid", notes Australian industrial correspondent Peter Wilson, in response to
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ADELAIDE — Activists have begun a campaign to re-establish the Rape Crisis Centre as an autonomous service. (The state Labor government closed the centre last year.) Initially Rape Action Link Up will provide a phone service aimed at offering
By Pip Hinman
Established 50 years ago, the World Bank is now one of the most powerful institutions in the world. It has established a worldwide bureaucracy which is forcing a social and ecological disaster on the poor and heavily indebted
By Stephen Marks
SAN SALVADOR — One of the jokes told at the left's closing election rally here referred to the big letter "Z" emblazoned on the T-shirted chests of "Zamora for President" supporters. The story goes that when Calderon Sol, the
By Norm Dixon
JOHANNESBURG — Support continues to grow for the right of prisoners to vote in South Africa's first democratic elections. The announcement by the South African Prisoners' Organisation for Human Rights (SAPOHR) that prisoners
The Dragon Bride
SBS TV
Wednesday, March 30, 8.30pm (8 Adelaide)
Reviewed by Sujatha Fernandes
I have a lone buffalo
How much can I milk her
I want to laugh but my heart weeps
How much can I cry
Some are happy, some are not
Our
Hawkesbury pollution
By Marina Carman
SYDNEY — A 25 km stretch of the Hawkesbury-Nepean river in Sydney's north-west is infested with a noxious weed, which is capable of killing fish and plant life, and even threatening human life.
By Tony Hastings
CAIRNS — The proposed construction of a 7.5km long cableway, from Caravonica to Kuranda, called Sky-Rail, is the first commercial development in a World Heritage listed area. The campaign to stop it must be won to prevent
The Cutting Edge — Agatha's Curse
SBS TV
Tuesday, March 29, 8.30pm (8 Adelaide)
Reviewed by Jill Hickson
This moving program alerts us to the grim picture for women in Australia. Breast cancer will kill 2500 Australian women this year.
By Norm Dixon
JOHANNESBURG — Nelson Mandela received a tumultuous welcome from tens of thousands of triumphant residents of Bophuthatswana when he entered Mmabatho's Independence Stadium on March 15. The African National Congress president,
By Steve Taylor
A test of strength between the left and right of Italian politics takes place at the March 27 general election. Two major election blocs will confront one another.
On the right, racist and reactionary forces are grouped
Coal workers threatened with mass sackings
By Sean Moysey
WOLLONGONG — Metropolitan Colliery in Helensburgh threatened on March 14 to sack 70 workers unless seven workers targeted by the colliery's owners, Denehurst, resign and accept a
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