Nuclear reactor not necessary
By James Clark
SYDNEY — Greenpeace held a public meeting dockside of theRainbow Warrior on March 24 to raise the profile of opposition to another nuclear reactor at Lucas Heights in Sydney.
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Celebration of Irish Music
State Theatre, Sydney
Reviewed By Bernie Brian
The man behind many of the recent tours of Irish musicians, Jon Nichols, indicated that this celebration may become an annual event. If the
The arguments put by the advocates of public utility privatisation are strong on rhetoric but generally weak on fact, according to JOHN ERNST, associate professor of sociology at the Victoria University of Technology. Ernst, one of a panel of
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — For people who follow events in Latin America as well as Russia, there was something strangely familiar about President Yeltsin's March 20 declaration of "special powers".
Last April a nearly identical formula
By Frank Noakes
FRANKFURT — Anna Seifert, a Green member of the Frankfurt city parliament, talked to Green Left Weekly about the local elections in the state of Hesse on March 7. Smaller parties of the left and right achieved swings,
Business plans 'free market' high schools
By Sean Malloy
The Business Council of Australia (BCA) and the National Industry Education Forum (NIEF), of which the BCA is a founding member, are proposing to extend economic "rationalism" into
Report confirms warming
Alarming new evidence that the world is warming came from the Netherlands on March 19.
According to a report in the main Dutch newspaper, de Volkskrant, the Royal Dutch Meteorological Service announced at a press
Nigerian musician in jail
By Norm Dixon
Fela Anikulapo-Kuti remains in jail, charged with murder despite being granted bail by the Lagos High Court.
Fela, as he is universally referred to in Nigeria, is one of Africa's most popular,
ADELAIDE — The country town of Whyalla will be hit by a stoppage of 1800 workers from the BHP plant as they go out on March 29 in support of a national campaign opposing changes to the performance pay scheme. The combined unions claim seeks two
A modest success
By Kamala Emanuel
NEWCASTLE — The Modest Day Out was a success here on Sunday, March 14.
Sydney has the Big Day Out. Last year, Newcastle bands fed up with this city's lack of initiative organised their own three-
Panama's Censorship Board gave in to international pressure from human rights and media groups, journalists and other prominent individuals on March 18 by lifting its ban on the film The Panama Deception. The retreat came only hours before the
By Bernie Brian
WOLLONGONG — To the strains of the "Internationale", hundreds of friends and comrades gathered on March 26 to farewell and celebrate the life of Stan Woodbury, who had died peacefully at Port Kembla Hospital two days earlier
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