Greenpeace stops Israeli boat from dumping toxics
Greenpeace activists on board the ship MV Greenpeace on the morning of May 7 prevented the Israeli vessel Aribel from dumping toxic sludge into the Mediterranean, two kilometres off the Israeli
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Tarkine campaign escalates
By Ben Courtice
HOBART — More than 150 people marched through the city streets to Parliament House on May 9 to protest against the road construction through the Tarkine wilderness and the arrests of protesters
Appeal against nuclear weapons
In December, the United Nations voted to ask the World Court to give an advisory opinion on whether nuclear weapons are legal or illegal.
This adjudication should happen in September, and the World Court
Speaking clearly
Speak Quiet, Speak Strong
The Cutting Edge: SBS TV
Tuesday, May 23, 8.30pm (8 SA)
Reviewed by Lou Stanley and Kath Gelber
Speak Quiet, Speak Strong is a lot louder than its title. The program documents Aboriginal and
By Wendy Robertson
"Suharto is a Butcher; free East Timor Now", "Free Xanana Gusmao, Indonesia Out Now" and "No Blood For Oil" were some of the chants that echoed through city streets across Australia on Saturday, May 13. Around 1500 people
By Chow Wei Cheng
The federal budget on May 9 contained very little for the 8.3% of the labour force officially classified as "unemployed". In effect, they were told to sit and wait for the economy to pick up. The problem is that the economy
Amnesty report on gay imprisonment
By Deirdre Graham
At least 15 countries around the world are still imprisoning people for being gay, according to the human rights group Amnesty International. Australia, Russia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Iran
Not gripping, listening
Higher Learning (soundtrack)
Various artists
Epic Records
Reviewed by Sean Moysey
For me the soundtrack to the movie Higher Learning parallels a triple-J play list. It puts rap from performers like Ice Cube and
The 14th general conference of the Organisation to Ban Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean, held in Vina del Mar, Chile, for the first time with the participation of the 33 nations of the subcontinent, pledged to help strengthen the
Officials from the ministries of agriculture, foreign affairs and the environment of approximately 150 countries will gather for a major conference on plant genetic resources in Leipzig, Germany, in June 1996.
The intergovernmental conference,
Human rights violators and influential members of the armies of various Latin American countries have earned sizeable sums of money for passing information to the CIA. This is shaping up as a major scandal.
It all began with the claim that
By Freya Pinney
WOLLONGONG — Miscellaneous Workers Union (MWU) members led a strike at the university on May 8-10 over the hiring of non-union labour. The picket lines, which formed after a rally of 250 people, were maintained for 24 hours and
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