By Juliet Fox
Sixty-five per cent of Victoria's native vegetation has been cleared, and in 1990, the rate of destruction nationwide was over two rugby fields per minute. These are just a couple of the statistics given in two reports released in
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An open letter
By Brandon Astor Jones
Liberation is a dialectical movement ... women's liberation in the revolution is inseparable from the liberation of [men]. — Angela Davis.
Your letter arrived yesterday. Thank you. I am glad to
Obstacle Race: Aborigines in Sport
By Colin Tatz
UNSW Press, 1995. 408 pp., $39.95 (hb)
Reviewed by Phil Shannon
If sport is a "litmus test" for racism in Australia, as Colin Tatz argues in his new book, the results are pretty damning.
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — Throughout much of the second week of July, the streets of the Chechen capital, Grozny, were under the control of demonstrators chanting anti-Russian slogans and holding up portraits of separatist leaders. Russian
Mapplethorpe exhibition in Perth
Robert Mapplethorpe Retrospective
WA Art Gallery until August 6
Reviewed by Leon Harrison
Robert Mapplethorpe, a famous and controversial gay US photographer, died in 1989 leaving a legacy in his mainly
South Africa grapples with apartheid's environmental legacy
By Eddie Koch
JOHANNESBURG — Rainbows have become emblematic of the Republic of South Africa's shift from apartheid to non-racial democracy. Since Nelson Mandela used references
SA meeting discusses anti-fees campaign
ADELAIDE — Politics in the Pub on June 28, on the theme of "Winning the Fight for Free Public Education", was organised by the South Australian Education Network (SAEN) as part of the national No Fees
Australian gunships in action again on Bougainville
By Norm Dixon
At least one of the four Iroquois combat helicopters supplied to the Papua New Guinea government by Australia in 1989 is in action over Bougainville again, says the
Film maker ANAND PATWARDHAN participated in the anti-Vietnam War movement as a student in the US in 1970-72 and has been involved in a variety of social movements in India. His latest film, Father, Son and Holy War, is a documentary exploring the
By Norm Dixon
The worldwide uproar over the French government's decision to resume nuclear tests in the Pacific has been fuelled by the violent seizure of the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior off Moruroa atoll on July 9. Protests were