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Write on: letters to the editor
Tarkine
I am replying to Kevin Parker's letter (GLW #191) in response to an article I wrote (GLW #189) on the Tarkine. The article quoted an activist from the Tarkine Tigers criticising the Wilderness Society
CPSU delegates fight budget cuts
By Peter Webster
From July 3, many DSS workplaces around Australia will be "downsized". The federal government has slashed the budget for 1995-96 and, despite concerns raised by members, the national and
On June 30 the International Court of Justice (ICJ) announced that it had no jurisdiction to decide on Portugal's challenge to the Indonesia-Australia Timor Gap Treaty. This, the court said, was because it could not decide on the nature of
The Right Road: A History of Right-wing Politics in Australia
By Andrew Moore
Oxford University Press, 1995. 166 pp., $22.95 (pb)
Reviewed by Phil Shannon
Right-wing politics in Australia has its well-populated rogue's gallery. It ranges
During a panel discussion entitled "Women, Race and Class" held at the Marxist Educational Conference in Sydney over Easter, KAREN FLETCHER, feminist activist and former GLW journalist, took up the issue of where feminism is at in the 1990s, and what
Nurses' union breaks silence on mercury hazard
By Paul Jones
The June issue of the Australian Nursing Federation's journal, the Australian Nursing Journal, (carries a full page article by Dianne Lacroix titled "The danger of mercury
By Jennifer Thompson
As opposition grows to French nuclear weapons testing at Moruroa atoll, Greenpeace and other campaigners will be remembering the bombing in Auckland harbour of the first Rainbow Warrior on July 10, 1985.
The Rainbow
Nimbin police launch 'drug war'
NIMBIN — The NSW Police Service has decided to throw money and civil rights to the wind in an effort to win the unwinnable "war against drugs".
While some police want drug abuse to be treated as a health
Socialists call for 'people before profit'
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — The Democratic Socialist candidate for the seat of Brisbane Central, Zanny Begg, called for the creation of "a new kind of government based on putting the interests of
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