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ACT Greens interviewed

CANBERRA — ACT Greens member of the Legislative Assembly, LUCY HORODNY, spoke with Green Left Weekly's JAMES VASSILOPOULOS four days before the handing down of the ACT budget. Question: It's been six months since you were elected to the

Tarkine forest threatened

By Ben Courtice HOBART Moves by the federal government to shore up its environment image before the next election have amounted to next to nothing for the Tarkine wilderness area in Tasmania's north-west. The forests of the Tarkine and the Great

Aborigines in white films

Hidden PicturesTravelling film festivalAustralian Film Commission Indigenous BranchReviewed by Chris Martin Hidden Pictures is the title of a confronting selection of film, some new, some old and archival, currently being screened nationally by the

On the box

Programs of interest on Sydney Community TV (UHF 31) — Perleeka, indigenous Australians' program, nightly, 7pm. Art Experimenta, Mondays, 8pm and 11.30pm, and Tuesdays, 3am and 6.30am. Bent TV, Gay and lesbian program, Thursdays, 10.30pm and

45 Brisbane schools walk out against nuclear testing

By Bernard Wunsch BRISBANE — On October 5 students from 45 different schools walked out of class, and 4000 high school students rallied in the streets. King George Square was filled with young people demanding "Stop the bomb". When the crowd

Nostradamus' Media Watch

By Craig Cormick 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. French foreign minister's

GLW: Good reasons to $ub$cribe

Due to an increase in the price of newsprint, the cover price of Green Left Weekly has increased to $2.However, for the time being, the cost of subscribing is still at the pre-price rise rate. Until the end of the year, when we will have to increase

BHP: the big polluter

By Robert Rosen and Eve Sinton The Big Australian has been in the headlines. First, the oil-spill off Tasmania from stricken ore ship Iron Baron, and then revelations that BHP's lawyers had drafted their own legislation in Papua New Guinea. The

A failed process

The "deferred forestry assessment" process (DFA) has been an abject failure. Conceived after the Bedall woodchip debacle last year, with the stated aim of moving towards a world class forest reserve system in Australia, the process has been totally

... and ain't i a woman?: Better off? On whose figures?

When is equal pay not equal pay? When you fiddle the figures, of course. Debates around equal pay for women have been raging since the principle of equal pay for work of equal value was endorsed by the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration

Anti-freeway activists on trial

MELBOURNE — Fourteen people arrested in the campaign to halt the Eastern Freeway extension were sent to trial last week. The Coalition Against Freeway Extensions (CAFE) is organising a rally outside the magistrates' court on October 10 in support

The French are Bombing the "Ring of Fire"

I climbed into the taxi and then noticed the windscreen was extensively cracked on my side. The driver seemed pretty cool. He owned the cab, and No. It wasn't dangerous yet. The crack extended each day about a centimetre, but there was still plenty