EYA launches high school tour
By Elle Morrell
Young environmentalists are gearing up to start the Environmental Youth Alliance's new high school tour for 1993. EYA aims to reach up to 200 high schools around the country, equipped with the
Issue 85
News
By Sean Malloy
"There is a huge contradiction between the action being taken by the government and the contents of Wanted: Our Future. The Carmichael report, Keating's youth jobs schemes and the income levels set by the government fly in the
By Anne Pavy
PERTH — It is not just a matter of getting people into parliament: "We need to change the way people think and view and operate within the world", Stewart Jackson, secretary of the WA Greens, told Green Left Weekly.
The
Perth forum discusses left alternative
By Stephen Robson
PERTH — More than 100 people attended a special Politics in the Pub here on January 22 to discuss prospects for a left alternative. It was chaired by Ian Alexander, the retiring
Summer forest campaign
By Natasha Simons
HOBART — The slogan "Yes to EIS" (environmental impact statement) was chalked on every corner pavement in Hobart on January 18, as the Wilderness Society launched its "long hot summer" campaign
By Frank Noakes
"A major new effort to develop jobs which protect the environment", was how the January 18 joint statement by the Australian Council of Trade Unions and the Australian Conservation Foundation described their joint Green Jobs
Leading us down the garden path
By Darin Huddy
ADELAIDE — South Australia's national parks and wildlife reserves are heading for a crisis, battling feral animals, weeds and a lack of funds from the Labor government.
Although land
Determined campaign to defend Victorian schools
By Kylie Budge
MELBOURNE — Victorian Premier Jeff Kennett is continuing to implement his vision of education — against the wishes of teachers, students and parents.
Education
By Emma McDonald
SYDNEY — A Federal Airports Corporation discussion paper proposing to demolish the suburb of Sydenham because it will be severely affected by noise from the new Sydney airport third runway, "is just another case of jumping
Call for Hilton investigation
"We believe it is necessary to launch a campaign on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the Sydney Hilton bombing. On February 13, 1978, three innocent people were horribly murdered and others were mutilated
World
By Norm Dixon
Four giant US oil companies stand to make a killing in Somalia if US troops can pacify the strategic African nation, the Los Angeles Times has revealed. The report further undermines US claims that the invasion was a
By Norm Dixon
A claim by Papua New Guinea's minister responsible for Bougainville, Michael Ogio, that the Bougainville Revolutionary Army has killed 17 civilians involved in restoring services to southern Bougainville is a "deliberate and
By Neville Spencer
The defeat of the Sandinista government by the US-backed UNO coalition in the 1990 elections has left Nicaragua in a very unusual situation. The former government continues to play a large role in political life, and
By Peter Gellert
HAVANA — Cuban women bear the lion's share of the burden of the island's economic crisis, because they are responsible for keeping the household going and making do amid widespread scarcities.
"We are facing a triple
CYNOG DAFIS was elected to the British parliament in April 1992. A member of the radical nationalist Plaid Cymru (Party of Wales), the former school teacher ran in alliance with the Green Party. Dafis spoke recently with Green Left Weekly's FRANK
BASMA ABOU-SHARAR, a media worker for the Intifada Committee in Amman, Jordan, was in Australia late last year to bring information on events in the Israeli-occupied territories on the West Bank and in Gaza. MIRIAM TRAMER of Green Left Weekly met
By Vannessa Hearman
The human rights situation in Indonesia in 1992 did not improve, according to the Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation (LBH). The foundation, one of Indonesia's foremost non-governmental organisations, held a press conference
By Stephen Marks
MANAGUA — The new situation in Nicaragua is producing alliances unimaginable a few years ago. As the government of Violeta Chamorro sides increasingly with the rich against the poor, former members of the Nicaraguan
By Norm Dixon
Thousands of Angolans have been killed since National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) contras launched a military offensive following their decisive defeat by the ruling Popular Movement for the Liberation of
By Miriam Tramer
The Palestinians stranded in southern Lebanon after illegal deportation by Israel are suffering from cold, and their health is deteriorating sharply. The Israeli government has yielded to international criticism only to the
By Max Lane
Students from major campuses around Java and farmers from the Blangguan area of East Java were arrested on Saturday, January 23 during protest action against the local marine base.
A marine battalion which wants the area is
Culture
Can Cuba Survive?
By Beatriz Pages
Ocean Press. 105pp. $14.95
Reviewed by Sean Malloy
Can Cuba Survive is an inspiring and magnetic interview with Cuban President Fidel Castro by Beatriz Pages, editor of the Mexican weekly magazine
The Sharp End
ABC TV, 8.30 p.m. Tuesdays
Reviewed by Tony Smith
During the great depression of the '30s, according to my grandfather, it was common to see families evicted from their homes by the "bailiffs". During the supposedly lesser
Storyteller with a message
Body of Glass
By Marge Piercy
Penguin Books, 1992. 583 pp. $12.95
Reviewed by Steve Painter
Marge Piercy's latest is set in a ruined world made largely uninhabitable by the effects of atomic war and the
New world music mag
The first issue of Culture (formerly Isis) has hit the streets. Culture describes itself as a "roots music magazine" and concentrates on African music and reggae.
Judging from the depth of information, range of
Amunda takes on the 'civilised' world
Civilised World
Amunda
Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association through Larrikin
Available on CD and cassette
Reviewed by Mara Ochoa
Amunda, an Aboriginal rock band formed in Alice
By Anthony Anderson
On November 20, Superman, the fictional character who represented "Truth, Justice and the American Way" for more than 50 years, suffered a violent death at the hands of a character known as Doomsday. If you bought an issue
The Stolen Children
Directed by Gianni Amelio
With Enrico Lo Verso, Valentina Scalici and Giuseppe Ieracitano
Reviewed by Bronwen Beechey
Vittorio de Sica's famous 1947 film The Bicycle Thieves told a story of the humiliation of a poor
Gas Food Lodging
A film written and directed by Allison Anders
Starring Brooke Adams, Ione Skye and Fairuza Balk
Showing in Melbourne at the Kino
Reviewed by Peter Boyle
Allison Anders' debut film is something special. She demolishes
Body of Evidence
Starring Madonna and Willem Dafoe
Reviewed by Kath Tucker
It has been billed as a "highly charged erotic thriller", a cross between Fatal Attraction and 9.5IJ243>155IJ0>/.5I>255I> Weeks. It's also very close to Basic
Pham Thanh's continuing war
Connections: Thanh's War
8.30 p.m. Friday, February 5, SBS Television (8 p.m. Adelaide)
Reviewed by Stephen Robson
Pham Thanh was 12 years old in December 1968, when his family were killed as US soldiers
Light Sleeper
A film by Paul Schrader
Reviewed by Mario Giorgetti
A student of French film-maker Robert Bresson's work, whose favourite subject was the lone outsider, US writer-director Paul Schrader develops and redefines in Light
Editorial
Cambodia: the unthinkable
The seemingly unthinkable is becoming plausible. Pol Pot's genocidal Khmer Rouge is rebuilding a strength that might enable it to once again impose its terror on the Cambodian people — courtesy of the United