By Frank Noakes
PRAGUE — When Greenpeace activists first came here in 1984, they were shot at while hanging banners from one of Czechoslovakia's ubiquitous smoking chimneys in protest against acid rain. One year ago the environmental
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For sale: the right to pollute?
By Bronwen Beechey
MELBOURNE — Companies may be able to buy and sell the right to pollute the environment in the future, if federal environment minister Ros Kelly has her way.
According to the
MARI ALKATIRI is a senior member of the Fretilin Central Committee in exile. He was interviewed in Sydney for Green Left Weekly by Max Lane.
Could you tell us why you are visiting Australia?
I have received a mandate from the leadership
Broadside
I read with disappointment of the demise of Broadside (GLW, April 28). Whenever a left journal folds it often reflects the unfavourable political circumstances rather than the merits of the particular publication.
However, one
Refugee family denied asylum
By Catherine Brown
A Romany refugee family, denied asylum by the Cologne city council (led by the Social Democrats), is now in hiding to avoid forced deportation to Macedonia. Asylum was denied on the basis
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — Sixteen months after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the sense that Russia had slipped back into the era of "plebiscite" elections was uncanny. There was only one name on the ballot paper. Voters were
By Maurice Sibelle
BRISBANE — On April 27 Brisbane City Council moved to restrict severely peaceful assemblies in Brisbane malls. New regulations require organisers of mall protests to give two weeks' notice of their activity. Permits will
By Peter Boyle
MELBOURNE — In the last days of the Kirner Labor government of Victoria, the report of an independent review of the state public sector's finances (the Nicholls Review) was released. While the media made much of its finding
A Celtic Breeze in the Antipodes
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Australia accused on whaling
Since last year, Australia has been quietly supporting policies that would allow the resumption of commercial whaling, according to Sue Arnold of Australians for Animals.
According to the group, the Australian
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