By Sean Lennon
MELBOURNE — On February 10, some 20,000 angry people gathered in the City Square to demonstrate against the Grand Prix in Albert Park. Organised by the Save Albert Park Group (SAPG), the protest heard from a range of speakers
Issue 175
News
Speak-out calls for forests and jobs
By Chris Spindler
SYDNEY—A lively speak-out of some 500 people on February 9 finished with the chant, "Jobs not woodchips, stop the logging now".
The speak-out, initiated by Resistance and
Arbitration in DEET dispute
By Paul O'Brien
CANBERRA — Department of Employment, Education and Training (DEET) staff in the ACT voted for a national delegates committee recommendation to lift all bans and other industrial action on
WA DSS delegates oppose redundancies
By Jonathan Strauss
PERTH — Community and Public Sector Union delegates in the Department of Social Security decided on February 7 to oppose redundancies proposed by DSS Area North (covering the
Mercury spill at hospitals covered up by unions
By Paul Jones
BRISBANE — Reports last year in Green Left Weekly of mercury hazards to workers at the Royal Brisbane Hospital, are confirmed by a state government report submitted to the
Agency bargaining scrapes through
By Phil Shannon
CANBERRA — An agency bargaining agreement has been narrowly accepted by members of the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) in the federal Department of Human Services and Health. With
CANBERRA – Our world is in crisis. The world's resources are mined in an unsustainable way, more and more of arable land is becoming unproductive, the climate of the earth is under threat and the distance between rich and poor is increasing inside each country and between countries.
Hobart anti-woodchipping meeting
By Rebecca Meckelburg
HOBART — A "Stand up for the Forests" public meeting called by the Wilderness Society on February 7 attracted more than 900 people. While only 400 could squeeze into the hall, another
Analysis
The federal government's capitulation to the timber industry on the pretext of "protecting jobs" has come under increasing criticism. One respected researcher, Dr Clive Hamilton, argues that protection of the 509 coupes would not
World
By Mikael Karlsson
Swedish author Hans Andersson has fought against neo-Nazism for many, many years. This involves publishing books about organisations whose sole desire is to remain unknown to the public.
This naturally creates certain
An unprecedented development is evident in Israel. A challenge is being mounted to the founding ideology of the state, Zionism. A key factor in this challenge has been the writings of what have been called the new or revisionist Israeli historians.
Catholic university bars gay group
A gay and lesbian student group at the University of Notre Dame in the US state of Indiana has been told by administrators that it can no longer meet at the school.
University officials confirmed that Gays
Reprinted here are parts of a faxed letter to Matthew J. James, associate professor and chair of the Department of Geology at Sonoma State University in California. It was sent by Macarena Green, a biologist now in the Galapagos Islands. The islands,
The Nama Sama Samaja Party (NSSP) of Sri Lanka was formed in 1977 by people who were a faction within the Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP). In the 1960s the LSSP had a very large base within the working class and among peasants. However, during its
By Boris Kagarlitsky and Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — During the Gorbachev years, the popular Russian journalist Alexander Kabakov published a science fiction story entitled The Non-Returnee, in which he described the horrors of life after
By Kim Moody
With the support of many pro-labour Democrats, Congress overwhelmingly ratified the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the new worldwide free trade agreement.
One reason for the big Democratic "yes" vote was that,
Political prisoners in Chile
By Monica Chiappe
After a year of investigation, the Chilean section of the International Association Against Torture (IAAT) has evidence that the cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment of political prisoners
Culture
Women with a message
Difficult Women
With Linn Van Hek and Joe Dolce
At Budinski's Theatre of Exile, Carlton, until February 25
Reviewed by Bronwen Beechey
Following successful seasons and the Edinburgh and Vancouver Arts Festivals,
Calendars aid Cuban children
By Joan Coxsedge
Last October I launched a 1995 calendar featuring seven of my Cuban drawings as a fundraiser for the children of Cuba.
I am immensely pleased to announce that, with the help of
Conspiracy
Directed by Daryl Dellora
Written by Daryl Dellora and Ian Wansbrough
Produced by Sue Maslin
Film Art Doco (1994)
Screening on ABC TV, Sunday, February 19, 8.30pm
Reviewed by Norm Dixon
February 13 was the 17th anniversary
Sustaining Our Forests
By Kara Joss
1994. 121 pp. $15
Reviewed by Lisa Macdonald
Sustaining Our Forests is a much needed and very useful resource for both the novice and the well informed on forest conservation in Australia. The product of
Blues Fell This Morning: Meaning in the Blues
By Paul Oliver
Cambridge University Press, 1994. 384 pp., $18.95 (pb)
Reviewed by Phil Shannon
Discovering the blues can be a life-altering revelation. A Bessie Smith record on ABC radio 20-odd
The last dance
The Last Supper
Canada, 1994
Directed by Cynthia Roberts
Starring Ken McDougall
Reviewed by Jennifer Thompson
The Last Supper promises to be one of the highlights of the 1995 Mardi Gras Film Festival. It takes the
Strawberry and Chocolate
By Thomas Gutierrez Alea and Juan Carlos Tabio
Showing in Sydney's Mardi Gras Film Festival, February 16-26
To be followed by seasons in Sydney and Melbourne
Reviewed by Peter Boyle
Several recent movies have
Editorial
A tax by any other name
The federal government's current hyperbole promoting a carbon tax is gradually being revealed as nothing but a cynical exercise in revenue raising.
The Labor government is seeking to exploit the perfectly sensible