By Sean Martin-Iverson
PERTH — An announcement by the private, Catholic Notre Dame University that it intends to open a new medical school has been condemned by student activists and the WA branch of the National Union of Students. Notre Dame's
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Forests
Successive Governments have forced West Australia down a path of environmental destruction. It started with paying farmers to clear land to produce wheat for export dollars and is continuing with the felling of the South West forests to
Big business, GMOs and technology
Review by Daniel Jardine
Genetic Engineering, Food, and the Environment: a Brief GuideBy Luke AndersonScribe Publications, Melbourne 2000192 pp., $17.95 (pb) This book should be read by everyone who eats and
Women main targets of family law amendments
The federal government's Family Law Amendment bill 1999 is being debated
in parliament. One of its main purposes is to amend the Family Law Act
1975 to allow new arrangements for the
E.H. Carr: the historian as partisan
The vices of integrity: EH Carr 1892-1982By Jonathan HaslamVerso, 1999306pp., $75 (hb) Review by Phil Shannon
There haven't been many historians who, having spent most of their career as Foreign Office
By Norm Dixon
Turkey's military dominated government is cynically exploiting the Kurdistan Workers' Party's (PKK) unilateral political concessions. Rather than respond with a relaxation of its hardline opposition to Kurdish political, language and
How?
By Brandon Astor Jones
My Charles, My Friend
What was perceived to be suffering and pain
Is now nothing more than memories
Life's trials, often hard to bear
But now, a pain so deep, a hurt so real
Labour Party Pakistan leaders hunted by police
By Farooq Sulehria
LAHORE — Police and soldiers raided the houses and offices of Labour Party Pakistan leaders on the night of March 22. The raids occurred just hours after an LPP-organised
Environmental criminals
Yet another toxic spill by an Australian mining company in the Third World provides a compelling argument for tougher laws against polluters. It also exposes the futility of "industry self-regulation".
On March 22, one
How I became an enemy of the state
By Boris Kagarlitsky
MOSCOW — A few months ago I was simply a political analyst. However, since March, I have stepped back into a role I had almost forgotten — that of coordinator of an informal political
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