The Nightly Planet asks the questions — This is perhaps the most intelligent music program on radio. Every night it comprehensively programs non-mainstream popular musics from around the world. Presenter Robyn Johnston is always well informed
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By Dave Riley BRISBANE — The days when Fortitude Valley was the major local night spot have passed. It's slim pickings down Brunswick Street, the main thoroughfare, in these times of recession after the Fitzgerald Inquiry. Nightclub sparkle,
FEDERICO GOMEZ is a representative of the Chuc people, one of the 22 indigenous cultures in Guatemala. He has been visiting Australia for the secretariat of the campaign 500 Years of Black, Indigenous and Popular Struggle. He was interviewed for
By Peter Boyle MELBOURNE — Bill Deller, Victorian Public Service Federation vice-president and convener of the Independent Action campaign, warned on August 19 that a future Kennett Liberal-National government of Victoria might face a general
Comment by Diana Evans Agenda 21, signed at the UNCED Earth Summit in Rio, committed the world's nations to a global blueprint for sustainable development in the 21st century which will cost and estimated $800 billion annually. For the
Mexico's poverty gap widens By Peter Gellert MEXICO CITY — Mexico's much touted economic miracle is further and further out of reach for most Mexicans, according to a feature story published in the Mexican daily El Financiero. While
By David Robie AUCKLAND — A Maori tribe which has already laid claim to 80% of New Zealand's South Island has rocked the nation by winning a landmark ruling of the Waitangi Tribunal that the tribe be granted the lion's share of the national
By Peter Annear A faint sigh of relief conditioned by continued anxiety about the future best sums up the response of welfare and environmental organisation to the 1992 budget. The temporary retreat from economic rationalism into mild Keynesian
Hamburger heaven "I don't think that snobbery is part of the Christian ethic and if you mean that McDonald's caters for ordinary people, I suspect those people are amongst those who our ministry and cathedral must try to reach." — Christopher
ADELAIDE — Northern Ireland civil rights and anti-discrimination activist Oliver Kearney spoke at Flinders University on August 20 as part of a tour organised by the Australian Irish Congress. He said that the National Australia Bank owns the
A postcard to Keating By Natasha Simons HOBART — Just hours before the federal budget was released, Resistance here was protesting against it. In the Elizabeth Mall, Resistance members invited the public to write their messages on a giant
By Frank Noakes LONDON — Reports by environmental groups describe a continuing decline in the quality of life of Britons caused by environmental degradation. Yet the Conservative government continues to treat environmental questions with
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