By Chris Spindler
Average farm cash incomes have fallen by an estimated 17% in 1994-95. Those farms affected by the drought in the past year have had cash incomes 50% below farms not affected. Those affected by drought for two years have incomes
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Women, the State and Revolution: Soviet Family Policy and Social Life, 1917-1936By Wendy Z. GoldmanCambridge University Press, 1993. 351 pp., $39.95Reviewed by Pip Hinman Wendy Z. Goldman has done a great service: she has filled a gap in the history
Australia's Washington embassy was picketed on September 5 by 50 protesters, including consumer advocate Ralph Nader and Greenpeace activists, condemning BHP's role in the PNG government's plan to outlaw compensation cases against the BHP-owned Ok
The major mobilisations in Tahiti in recent months have repeatedly stressed the links between the Maohi people's struggle for independence and the struggle for a nuclear-free world. It's obvious that if the Chirac government didn't have the option of
By Norm Dixon
The French occupied Tahiti in 1842. Between 1844 and 1847, rebels led the ruling Pomare family and supported by the entire population waged a bitter guerilla war against the French from mountain strongholds before being finally
By Norm Dixon
Years of anger and frustration at the French government's refusal to heed the wishes of the people of Tahiti have erupted into the most serious rebellion ever seen in this Pacific country. Tea Hirshon, spokesperson for the
The "ranaways" colour themselves,
Scooping saffron and silver and copper-green
From the old shell casings, forgotten on mantle-pieces
Sparkle shims on their Tungus hair, knotted strong,
They brown their feet in the mud dust,
By Tyrion Perkins
[From June 28 to July 21, 13 people from Australia visited Nicaragua on a work-study brigade. This is the second article based on the brigade's experiences.] While the FSLN prepares for the elections in 1996, the political
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Movie Matinee: Curfew (1993) — The stressful routine of
Peter Montague
People calling themselves "conservatives" in Congress are preparing to flay US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) scientists for the agency's four-year effort to determine the true hazards of dioxin. Dioxin is a highly toxic