By Allen Myers
In March, much of the world was shocked by the suicides of a group of 39 people in California. The members of a small religious cult, they believed, not that they were ending their lives, but that they were being transported to a
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Cod liver oil polluted
By Barry Healy
Friends of the Earth UK has demanded that the British government release details of which brands of cod liver oil are most contaminated by cancer-causing and hormone-disrupting PCBs and dioxins. This
By Angela Luvera
BRISBANE — The 1997 Network of Women Students Australia conference, held at the Queensland University of Technology July 7-12, was attended by around 600 women. Plenary panels included Feminisms; Women in Struggle; Women, Work
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — Just in case anyone thought democracy and the rule of law were coming to Yeltsin's Russia, the country's security police in mid-June brought additional charges against nuclear safety campaigner Aleksandr Nikitin.
Queensland TAFE cuts hit
By Daniel Lambert
BRISBANE — The Borbidge government's $113 million TAFE funding cuts, brought down in the last state budget, are beginning to show their effects as angry students mobilise to fight these attacks
Editorial: A 'cure' that must be resisted
A 'cure' that must be resisted
@box text intro = John Howard has sharply escalated his blame-the-victim campaign — a predictable response to recent poll results showing that the Coalition is
By Alex Bainbridge and Reihana Mohideen
The Industrial Relations Commission on July 17 instructed Public Transport Union (PTU) train drivers to cross the striking mineworkers' picket line in the Hunter Valley. However, the IRC ruling also stated
Rally against One Nation in Werribee
By Paul Miller
MELBOURNE — Around 700 protesters organised by Campaign Against Racism rallied outside the Werribee West Family Centre on July 14 to protest against Pauline Hanson's One Nation party
Disappointment
"I regret to report that there was no violence." — A TV reporter overheard by ambulance crew reporting in following the protest at One Nation's Werribee launch.
When we don't need it
"I have already indicated that we
By Allen Myers
"DISGRACEFUL" shrieked the one-word headline, 4½ centimetres high, on the front of the July 8 Melbourne Herald Sun. Three days later, the Australian was still featuring the bashing of Keith Warburton, with photographs, on its
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