Fallout on Tahitian nuclear tests
Following the publication in Papeete, Tahiti, of the results of the independent inquiry into the consequences of the nuclear tests on the Tahitian people, several members of Hiti Tau, a Polynesian
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By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — In the first decade of the next century, a series of reactor blocks at Russian nuclear power plants will reach the end of their designed service life. Government officials will then have to choose between two grim
News briefs
Young Liberal boycott campaign
PERTH — The Young Liberals (WA) have threatened to boycott Body Shop stores for selling armbands in opposition to Howard's 10-point plan. Profits from the sale of armbands — which carry a range of
Hinchinbrook 'beach being built'
Video evidence collected by the Friends of Hinchinbrook and the North Queensland Conservation Council shows that Cardwell Properties, the Hinchinbrook developer, is constructing a beach on the foreshore and over
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Green Left stands up for the oppressed people's point of view. It has a perspective that is based on justice for the individual. It presents the facts that are not forthcoming in the mainstream papers and provides
Information nights tackle ignorance on Wik
By Andy Morison
BRISBANE — Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation in Queensland have begun a series of information nights in marginal federal electorates. Frustrated by the federal
By Allen Myers
In the week before the opening of the Kyoto conference on climate change and greenhouse gas emissions, scientific studies of temperatures around the world appear to show that 1997 will be the hottest year since human beings began
Rally opposes uranium mining, woodchipping, greenhouse emissions
HOBART — About 150 people staged a lively march through the city streets here on November 28 to protest against plans to mine uranium at Jabiluka in Kakadu. The protest, organised
Publication schedule
Next week's Green Left Weekly, dated December 10, will be the last for 1997. We will then take our summer break and resume publication with the issue dated January 21, 1998. To make sure you don't miss the end-of-year issue —
By Norm Dixon
In 1884-85, the European powers sat down at the Berlin colonial conference to formalise Africa's carve-up into colonies. The orgy of brutal invasions that preceded the conference was aptly dubbed "the scramble for Africa" by the
Music across cultures
Reviewed by Sujatha Fernandes
Star RiseNusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Michael BrookFeaturing remixes by Joi, Talvin Singh, Asian Dub Foundation, Sate of Bengal, Aki Nawaz, Black Star Liner, Nitin Sawhney, Earthtribe, the Dhol
Protests mark APEC
By Jon Land
Human rights and solidarity activists' protests at the APEC summit, November 22-25 in Vancouver, Canada, focused on the failure of governments in the Asia Pacific region to deal with human rights problems caused
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