Greens run in Kooyong
MELBOURNE — The Greens Victoria are running author and philosopher Peter Singer in the Kooyong by-election on November 19. Singer, a professor, is running against Liberal Petro Georgiou, an architect of the Kennett
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By Allen Myers
CATHERINE HILL BAY, NSW — On a windswept hill, next to the Catherine Hill Bay cemetery, Stella Evans and her husband live in the house Stella's father built. Stella was born in the house 55 years ago and has lived there
YVONNE FRANCIS attended the Australian Forest Conference, held on October 24-25 at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. Here she presents her impressions.
After the first day, I reckoned that this was going to be the best holiday
By Peter Devereux
MANAGUA — The Central American presidents met in an ecological summit here on October 12 and 13. The agenda was carefully slanted toward a future sustainable development, deliberately refusing to consider the
East Java — On November 10, approximately 1500 farmers and 150 students from Students in Solidarity for Democracy in Indonesia (SSDI) held a mass demonstration in front of
Murders mar Nepal election
KATHMANDU, November 7 — The deaths of five party activists from the main opposition party, Communist Party of Nepal — Unified Marxist Leninist (CPN-UML), has brought campaigning in Nepal's second democratic
Defending The Chase
By Marcel Cameron
MELBOURNE — Residents of Warrandyte have renewed their battle to save an area of bushland rich in wildlife from housing development, just 25 kilometres from Melbourne's centre.
Marches commemorate death in custody
By John Nebauer
BRISBANE — About 130 people braved a hot and blustery day on November 7 to commemorate the first anniversary of the death in police custody of Aboriginal dancer Daniel
Power station provokes concern
By Elaine Chew
Federal and state government greenhouse reduction policies proved ineffective as the NSW Land and Environment Court gave approval for the Redbank power station in the Hunter Valley
True believers, please note
"The employers have got to grow up and stand up. This government and the trade unions have got the inflation rate under 2% for them; now they have to help themselves to keep it there." — PM Keating, urging bosses
Agency bargaining rush is on in HSH
By Phil Shannon
CANBERRA — Departmental management and the national officials of the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) are priming union members for the adoption of an agency
Once Were Warriors
Directed by Lee Tamahori
Reviewed by Melinda Jollie
Once Were Warriors is a powerful and disturbing account of the collapse of a contemporary Maori family through violence, poverty and alcohol, based on the
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