In the international Year for Indigenous People, the Dutch government is in conflict with the Innu people of Canada. GINA ROGERS reports from The Hague.
Since 1986, the Royal Netherlands Airforce has performed more than 10,000 low-level
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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
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 Norm Dixon
In a significant vote that has gone largely unreported by the Australian media, the United Nations Commission on Human Rights meeting in Geneva has called on the Papua New Guinea government to end the economic blockade of
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-
Come again, please
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
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
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,
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
Church leader on human rights in Cuba
HAVANA — Reverend Eunice Santana, president of the 400-million-member World Council of Churches, says the United States is pointing an unfair finger at Cuba when it comes to human rights.
She said:
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
By Karen Fredericks
On March 10 Dr David Gunn was shot three times in the back at point-blank range by an anti-choice terrorist, Michael Griffin, outside the Pensacola Women's Medical Services clinic in Florida. Although most anti-abortion
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