By Dave Riley
Food irradiation is back on the menu. Australia's three-year moratorium on it expired on December 12. The National Food Authority will soon develop "standards on the process of treating food with ionising radiation to increase
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Meeting supports public transport
By Alex Cooper
MELBOURNE — At its peak the smog in Melbourne is equal to that in New York, according to Dr Graeme Lorimer, an environment specialist. Addressing a meeting of 250 people at the Melbourne
By Stephen Marks
MANAGUA — The names of Juan Dávila, Xiomara and Alma Nubia will never be registered in any US State Department "Human Rights Reports". Juan Dávila was shot in the chest by recontras when he answered a late night
South Korean socialist jailed
Ilbung Choe, a South Korean socialist, publisher and political prisoner since October 1992, was not among thousands of people granted amnesty by the South Korean government last month.
Choe, who had published
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — Antinuclear activists in Russia plan a vigorous campaign against a new government program which would increase sharply the number of nuclear power reactors operating on Russian territory. The government's plans
By Max Lane
A recent Newsweek poll found that 84% of African-Americans between the ages of 15 and 24 consider Malcolm X a hero. Spike Lee's film is obviously meant to reinforce this view. In too many ways, however, it fails.
Most radical
By Greg Peters
STOCKHOLM — The Swedish government has landed in one of its biggest crises to date with plans to build a permanent road and rail link over the resund to Denmark. This engineering monsterpiece, intended as a symbol of new and
Comment by Teresa Dowding
There was so much that frustrated and angered me in Susan Barley's article ("Child-care and promises", GLW March 10) that I felt compelled to answer some of her assertions.
As a working mother of one child, I am
In 1928 the demands of the first International Women's Day Rally in Australia were: equal pay for equal work, an 8-hour day for shop assistants, the basic wage for the unemployed and annual holidays on full pay.
On the weekend of March 6-7, the annual IWD rallies, marches, festivals, dances and cultural events around Australia were still demanding basic rights for working and unemployed women, but this year the rights of indigenous women, abortion rights and the fight for freedom from sexual violence were also highlighted.
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