By Dave Wright DELORAINE, Tasmania — The first international temperate forest conference held on November 16-17 was attended by over 100 people from around Australia and overseas, including Chile, the United States and New Zealand. Keynote
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Iraqi children pay for war CHICAGO — An estimated 46,900 Iraqi children under the age of five died in the eight months following the beginning of the Persian Gulf War from causes directly related to the war according to an article in the
Laotian independence leader dies By Stephen Robson Kaysone Phomvihane, the President of Laos and a prominent leader of the independence struggle in Laos died on November 21 at the age of 71. Kaysone participated in the student movement
Coburg rally supports Cleary By Sean Lennon and Garry Walters MELBOURNE — Some 800 people rallied at the Coburg football ground on November 27 to offer their support to Phil Cleary, the High Court-deposed independent MP for Wills. Cleary was
According to Britain's Daily Mail, commenting on Chancellor Norman Lamont's August statement, "Mrs Thatcher's rule was not without fault ... but its simple truths remain". Solidarity forever "Mr Carr said the [November 30] national strike
Profits of War By Ari Ben-Menashe Allen & Unwin, 1992 pp 394 $24.95 Reviewed by Mark Delmege "In gratitude for the use of Australian soil for the transfer of arms to Iran, Richard Babayan, a contract operative of the CIA, received a check
Comment by Penny Saunders The 5th National Conference on AIDS (November 22-25), run concurrently with the Conference of the Australasian Society for HIV Medicine, proved to be an arena where activists, medical professionals and support workers
Deadly Deceptions: General Electric, Nuclear Weapons and our Environment A half-hour video produced and directed by Debra Chasnoff Academy Award for the best short documentary in 1991 Reviewed by Garry Walters The Campaign for International
The following is the text of a leaflet being distributed in Melbourne by the Democratic Socialist Party. Jeff Kennett's Liberals have earned the dubious distinction of being the most reactionary, anti-worker, anti-people government seen in
Who else 'profits'? The first thing that needs to be said about the archaic High Court decision ruling the independent left MP for Wills, Phil Cleary, invalid for office is that it need not have been made. The court might instead have found in
By Harry Blutstein Paul Rose was bemused by my question as to whether making a bomb was difficult. As a member of the Front de Libération du Québec (FLQ) during 1969 and 1970 he would have addressed this task more than once as part of
By Jim Blackwell MELBOURNE — On November 30 the USS Omaha, a nuclear-powered submarine was scheduled to enter Port Phillip Bay. The Omaha may or may not be carrying nuclear weapons — a situation we cannot find out about because the United
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