Chemical blamed in dolphin deaths
Researchers have found butyltin compounds, including tributyltin (TBT), in the liver, kidney and muscle of bottlenose dolphins that were stranded along the south-east US Atlantic and Gulf coasts between 1989 and
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Not aloneNot alone
By Brandon Astor Jones
"This was a passage I read in a magazine. The author is unknown ... I wondered if any of your readers could place it. I loved the passage so much, I'm sharing it with you. I wish I had written it, for
Political instability in Indonesia: A record of riots
Compiled by James Balowski
1995
January 1 — After an East Timorese was killed by a migrant, thousands of East Timorese in Bacau set fire to markets destroying at least 90 shops and leaving
UWS Macarthur students fight to save SRC
By Jo Brown
SYDNEY — Students at the University of Western Sydney MacArthur campus are taking the fight to save their Student Representative Council to the courts after the SRC was abolished by the UWS
By Marina Cameron
Since taking office, the federal Liberal government has implemented a number of measures to further deregulate the school system and shift funding away from public schools. New legislation has removed restrictions on the number of
By Marina Cameron
Despite appeals from big business for Australian government to look across the Tasman at the New Zealand example, the reality is that tax "reform" there has led to an increase in social inequality and yielded no significant
By Norm Dixon
Since early January, the Sudanese People's Liberation Army (SPLA), in a joint offensive with the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) — an coalition of northern political groups opposed to the military dictatorship — has captured a
Correction
A subediting error in the article "The ALP, ethnic communities and the cult(ure) of difference" in the February 5 edition of Green Left Weekly incorrectly described Robert Manne as the former Fraser government minister for Aboriginal
Two more PRD activist to go on trial
By James Balowski
On February 4, the Jakarta daily Kompas reported that the trials of People's Democratic Party activists I Gusti Anom Astika and Wilson bin Nurtias have begun. Twelve PRD members are now being
Indonesian activist addresses meetings
By Bernard Wunsch
BRISBANE — Robby Hartono, a pro-democracy and labour activist with the PRD (People's Democratic Party) in Indonesia, addressed several meetings in Brisbane last week. In a four-day tour,
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