The California Policy Seminar (CPS), a joint program of the University of California and the California state government, released in June "Pesticides in the Home and Community: Health Risks and Policy Alternatives", targeting the extensive use of
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Bougainvilleans to go to UN
By Frank Enright
The Bougainville Interim Government's representative to the United Nations, Mike Forster, has announced that it is considering taking the Papua New Guinea government to the International Court of
By Julie Green and Anne Pavy
PERTH — Environmentalists trying to protect old growth Karri\Marri forest south west of here have been taking action against the clear-felling since July 1. This phase of the blockade will conclude on July 30 to
Christina Stead: A Biography
By Hazel Rowley
Minerva, 1994, 646 pp., $24.95 (pb)
Reviewed by Phil Shannon
Christina Stead's novels are complex and difficult; they scale and fall artistic peaks and troughs, and are marked by a striking, if
By Evelyn Healy
Lisa Macdonald (GLW, #139 and #146) has warned, with reason, of aspects of postmodernism which make it a weapon for right-wing ideologues. She also shows that social theories must be challenged on how they work out in practice
More suited to the job
Are women taking men's jobs? Recent statistics being bounced around on the state of the job market have been hinting that this is the case.
More women are employed now than ever before in Australia. The majority of
Indonesian opposition gets organised
By Max Lane
The campaign in Indonesia against the closures, in late June, of the country's three major news weeklies has spurred on discussion on how best to advance the development of an organised