Logging industry propaganda By Yvonne Francis National Australian Forests Industries has a budget for promotion of $4 million derived from a levy on members for each cubic metre of wood produced. With those promotion funds — and I suspect
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By Peter Boyle MELBOURNE — Controversial papers being circulated for community discussion by the Victorian ALP Budget Coordinating Committee argue convincingly that the money can be raised to pay for urgently needed social and environmental
Blue Mountains mayor resigns By Denis Kevans WENTWORTH FALLS — Mayor Peter O'Toole has resigned from the Blue Mountains City Council after the council failed to back his actions in regard to a controversial development. O'Toole had
Thanks for nothing, Bob Bob Hawke's well-paid resignation from parliament last week on the Jana Wendt show was a fittingly farcical finale to a disastrous episode in the history of a disastrous political party. Starting out to represent
Jobs and justice There was some discussion on the Melbourne left about the Victorian Trades Hall's recent Jobs for Justice campaign. Some argued that there was no alternative but to support what was always going to be a token effort because
ARTHUR MURRAY is the chairperson of the Aboriginal Deaths in Custody Watch Committee. His son Eddie was killed in Wee Waa police lockup on June 12, 1981. Murray is on bail awaiting their appeal on February 26 against convictions for "riotous
By Craig Cormick Shortly after nominations closed for the Philippines presidential election on February 7, there were eight contenders left. Electoral authorities eliminated another 70 as "nuisance" candidates. A further 18 candidates nominated
By Ray Fulcher and Jason Cheng MELBOURNE — The Victorian Trades Hall Council's February 17-21 Jobs and Justice campaign flopped badly. A series of suburban meetings on unemployment attracted miserable crowds of between 15 and 40, and a
Action updates ADELAIDE — Around 20 people attended the launch of Student Underground at the Resistance Bookshop on February 15. Student Underground is a new radical newsletter compiled by high school students. It takes up issues such as
By Tracy Sorensen Are United Nations agencies in the Third World neutral providers of technical expertise, or do they follow a political agenda that may conflict with their stated goals? This question has been sharply posed in regard to the
By Kath Tucker An unfortunately short season of the play Blind Justice and the Nipple of Mercy, at the Bay Street Theatre, was one of features of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. A thought-provoking, moving, and at times very funny
Orwell: the authorised biography By Michael Shelden Heinemann, 1991. $45. Reviewed by Craig Brittain Over the years I've read a number of biographies that seemed just about perfect: Dotson Rader's beautiful portrait of Tennessee Williams,
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