Japanese government punished for air pollution
By Eva Cheng
In a landmark court ruling on July 5, the Japanese government and its Hanshin Expressway Public Corporation were ordered to pay 65 million yen to 18 victims — some of
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Blame the system
By Kath Gelber
@column = Susan Smith, the woman who, in desperation, killed her two children and then blamed their disappearances on a black man who hijacked her car, has become the latest victim in that great
@column = At the end of June, Green Left Weekly sent a letter to each of our subscribers. In the letter, we pointed out that the end of the financial year was approaching, and that we were behind schedule on our fundraising. We needed to draw on the
Local council prosecuted
@9point = ADELAIDE — On July 24, the Kingscote district council was found guilty of contravening section 26 of the Native Vegetation Act as a result of clearing roadside vegetation on Kangaroo Island between
By Alice Davis
ADELAIDE — The royal commission into the Hindmarsh Island bridge fiasco was jolted on July 27 by the one of the key governmental witnesses' withdrawal of his statements. Doug Milera's earlier claims that Aboriginal women's
@lhead = Law and Aborigines
@letter = Let us find a way to incorporate Aboriginal customary law into our justice system.
@letter = There have been many examples of ethnic or religious minorities having a large degree of autonomy
@column = Based on highly reliable international contacts, leaked documents and horoscopes from several TV magazines, Nostradamus' Media Watch presents a highly accurate forecast of political events across the globe.
@column = UN redefines
Trading Hazards: the export of toxic waste to the Third World
By Karen Medica
Research and Policy Unit, World Vision Australia, 1995
Reviewed by Lisa Macdonald
Trading Hazards is the second monograph in an "Issues in Global
By Eva Cheng
In 1963, when the United States, the Soviet Union and Britain announced their plans to stop atmospheric nuclear tests, the French governor of Tahiti claimed, "Not a single particle of radioactive fallout [from France's pending
By Michael Garay
President Fidel Ramos opened the 10th Congress on July 24 with the executive's traditional "state of the nation address" in a joint session of the Senate and the House of Representatives. At the same time, 80,000 people
Anger at ship scuttling
By Ben Courtice
HOBART — The wreck of the BHP ship Iron Baron on July 10, and the resultant slick of 300 tonnes of fuel oil off the north coast of Tasmania, is one the state's worst environmental
Reflection
By Shane Riley
@poetry = One dream
@poetry = of freedom returned
@poetry = The way of our people
@poetry = our religion, our culture
@poetry = The land we roamed
@poetry = for over 40,000
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