By Phil Shannon Biospheres: Metamorphosis of Planet Earth By Dorion Sagan Arkana/Penguin. $18.95 (pb) Reviewed by Phil Shannon "It would be difficult to wax poetic about medical waste, CFCs and carbon dioxide. Yet ... " this is what Dorion
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In print Amnesty International's summer catalogue is now out. Offering a range of progressive apparel from board shorts to T-shirts to sarongs, it also includes a range of other items including cards, kettles, rugs, hammocks and recycled paper
The ALP's centenary By Ian Alexander In this, the Australian Labor Party's centenary year, the party has been racked by internal controversy and is on the nose in many parts of its former heartland. This is especially ironic in view of the
Rainforest activist jailed By Nick Everett PERTH — A local Rainforest Action Group member, Nancy Rolfe, is serving a 60-day sentence for criminal trespass in Sarawak. She was one of eight protesters arrested two weeks ago during a logging
Peter Annear The national question in Czechoslovakia has taken some peculiar twists, among them the sacking earlier this year of the popular premier of the Slovak republic, Vladimir Meciar. PETER ANNEAR concludes a series of reports from Prague
By Peter Boyle Australia is committed, by the Toronto agreement it signed in 1988, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 20% of the 1988 rate by the year 2005. There seems no way this target could be achieved without a major shift from private
By John Hallam Claiming that Iraq is hiding materials that could fashion a nuclear weapon, the US government is threatening a resumption of bombing unless the materials are handed over. But how close is Saddam Hussein's government to producing a
Tas Greens threaten no-confidence Green Independent members of the Tasmanian parliament reaffirmed on August 1 that they will move a no-confidence motion, which would bring down the Field Labor government, if it tables resource security
The Burma Support Group is a Sydney-based group of Burmese and non-Burmese volunteers supporting a free and democratic Burma. A recent "Burma Alert!" dinner and talk raised over $3200, which has been sent to the student camps on the Thai-Burmese
By Kevin Healy What a delightful little fairytale at the National Press Club from the great workers' leader, little Billy Killthem, or Prince Billy as we know and love him. As Prince Billy said, "Once upon a time there was a handsome prince called
By Peter Boyle The Bush administration appears to have succeeded in convincing Israel, Syria and the Soviet Union to participate in preliminary negotiations on Middle East conflicts. However, the Israeli government insists — and the Bush
Qld Aborigines take fight to UN By Philippa Stanford BRISBANE — In protest against the Goss government's land rights legislation, a group of Aboriginal community leaders have organised a trip to the United Nations on behalf of the Queensland
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