Comment by Jeremy Smith
MELBOURNE — The Kennett government has unleashed a plan for massive restructuring of Melbourne, ostensibly to promote economic recovery but in reality giving open slather to big business. Forced council amalgamations
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By Max Anderson
LONDON — The Defend Clause Four Campaign, organised by the Socialist Campaign Group of Labour MPs and MEPs, was launched on Saturday, November 12, at a church hall near Euston station.
This campaign was begun in response
By Kamini Junankar and Eva Schmid
CANBERRA — More than 2000 people took part in Forest Embassy protests against the destruction of high conservation value forests and called for the end of export woodchipping. The embassy, organised by
By Zanny Begg
Before the last sitting of federal parliament this year, 10 woodchipping licences come up for renewal. These licences threaten 764 areas of high conservation value, including 485 areas of old growth forest and 11 wilderness areas.
By Stephen Robson
PERTH — Fifty-four thousand hectares of old growth karri and jarrah forest in the southern and central forests in WA are to be clear-felled by 1997, a report by the WA Conservation Council has revealed.
Released on
Protest over wilderness road
By Kevin L'Huillier
HOBART — A storm has erupted over a proposal to construct what has become known as "the road to nowhere" through pristine wilderness areas.
The state Liberals promised at the last
By Jill Hickson
"Exciting and unique", is how Kathy Fairfax describes the 1995 Work/Study Brigade to Nicaragua. Fairfax is helping organise the brigade, which will spend a month in Latin America in June-July 1995.
The trip is being
When the yuppies move in, they try to move everyone else out. ANGELA MATHESON reports on the gentrification of inner suburban Sydney.
When Stephen Goddard bought a combined house and legal practice in Surry Hills two years ago, he thought he'd
Mary
Starring Lucy Bell, Linden Wilkinson and Brendan Higgins
Writer/director Kay Pavlou
Reviewed by Catherine Brown
The beatification of Mary MacKillop, to take place in Sydney in January by Pope John Paul II, has probably not escaped the
On July 10 the Nepali parliament was dissolved by King Birendra following popular unrest directed at the Nepali Congress Party government. In the subsequent general elections on November 15, the Communist Party of Nepal, United Marxist Leninist
Melanesian women speak on family planning
The Australian Council for Overseas Aid (ACFOA) is touring two women, Geraldine Maibani-Michie from Papua New Guinea and Junilyn Pikacha from the Solomon Islands, to provide a first-hand account of
ADELAIDE — Aboriginal groups have demanded the sacking of the Aboriginal affairs minister, Michael Armitage, over his use of the words "nigger in the wood pile" in Parliament on November 22. Premier Dean Brown met with 14 representatives of
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