A Celebration of Voices
Hundreds gather for a concert in the cityto celebrate treeswhile others gather in the forest, to protest destruction.As the chainsaws advancewe form a human chain around each treesing our songs, chant for
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By Jon Lamb
ADELAIDE — Speculation is mounting about when the Liberal state government will announce the date of the next election, due to be held by April. Preselection tussles are under way in the Labor and Liberal camps, and Premier John
A Bunch of Leaves
Around my door, the oak leavesAre tarnished bronze scalesFrom Etruscan armour, I can count them,And in my arc of view,Platoons of them wait the wind;
Looking at each of theseI think of all the East TimoreseAnd name each
Housing crisis week in Melbourne
By Lev Lafayette
MELBOURNE — Victorian community organisations and individuals have formed People for Public Housing to oppose federal and state government changes to the public housing system. The
By Sean Healy
During the past week, rallies and protests on campuses throughout the country were organised to protest against the federal government's higher education policy, in particular its funding cuts to universities, fees for
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — There was a time, about 1991, when only slightly drunk members of Moscow's liberal intelligentsia would exclaim to you across their kitchen tables that Russia was at last about to become a normal country. Enterprises
By Ana Kailis
HAVANA — Cuban foreign minister Roberto Robaina addressed the opening session of the 14th World Festival of Youth and Students, held here from July 28 to August 5. The subject of the session was human rights. In his address,
GREG OGLE reports on the Hiroshima and Nagasaki peace conferences and rallies in Japan which he attended earlier this month as a representative of the Australian Peace Committee. Justice will only be done for the Hibakusha — the survivors of the US
Chairman Wallop and Chairman Tim
The federal government last week provided, not one, but two ministers to entertain the guests at a conference in Canberra dedicated to preventing any meaningful action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The
By Rupen Savoulian
Alarm bells are now ringing in Washington and Islamabad, because the Afghanistan opposition forces, led by General Ahmad Shah Masood, have pounded the Taliban out of northern Afghanistan and are on the outskirts of the
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