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
By Ben Alterman CASTLEMAINE — Jeff Kennett's economic rationalism has seen some repugnant transformations: hospitals turned into market squares, public co-ed schools into elite private girls' colleges, public parkland into private race tracks,
Profiting from the 'casino culture' in Victoria By Dave Holmes MELBOURNE — Since its 1992 landslide election win, Jeff Kennett's Coalition government has made an indelible impact on Victoria as it has sought to increase corporate profits at the
By Ana Pararajasingham The media would have us believe that by capturing Jaffna town, the Sri Lankan armed forces have paved the way for the armed uprising of the Tamil people to be crushed once and for all. The expected "fall of Jaffna" is portrayed
By Norm Dixon The decision of the Iowa Board of Parole to release US socialist Mark Curtis is being celebrated by his supporters. "This is a tremendous victory", said an ecstatic Curtis, who will be freed sometime after December 7. Curtis has spent
Conference calls for cuts to greenhouse gases By Pip Hinman The world's leading body on climate change confirmed at a Madrid conference on November 30 that the world is warming up, and that there could be dangerous climate changes unless the
By Leslie Williams CANBERRA — On November 29, workplace delegates in ACT government services voted unanimously to call an all-unions stop work meeting for December 8. The meeting was convened by the ACT Trades and Labor Council (TLC) to discuss the
Save native forests! By Graham Matthews On December 1, the federal government released final details of the forest areas to be protected by the Deferred Forest Assessment (DFA) process. The package, supposedly the culmination of months of "scientific
By Alice Dellar Despite recent controversy over the environmental damage caused by their mines at Ok Tedi and Bougainville, giant mining corporation RTZ (recently amalgamated with CRA), has started constructing a new gold mine in Papua New Guinea.
By Chris Spindler The Chowilla flood plain, a wetland of international significance fringing the lower Murray near Berri, is in danger of succumbing to salinity. A five-year study, by the Commonwealth Science and Industry Research Organisation
By Cameron Parker SYDNEY — After receiving more than 5000 submissions on aircraft noise the Senate Select Committee on Aircraft Noise has agreed with local councils and thousands of residents in describing Kingsford Smith Airport as "an