The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) lists the basic rights and freedoms that every person is entitled to. December 10 will be the 50th anniversary of the document's drafting. Many Australians are probably unaware of the existence of this
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By Nadeem A. Ansari
Pakistan's chief of the army staff, General Jahangir Karamat, submitted his resignation on the night of October 7 to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. This resignation is a result of Sharif's effort to rule the country with absolute
By Francesca Davis
On September 26, it became public knowledge that the Howard government had secretly decided not to ratify the Kyoto climate change treaty. According to the Canberra Times, resources and energy minister Senator Warwick Parer, at a
A head start that went to waste?
Temper Democratic: How Exceptional is Australia?By Humphrey McqueenWakefield Press, 1998. 261 pp., $24.95 (pb) Review by Phil Shannon
Humphrey McQueen has been poking his Marxist nose into Australian society for
By Eva Cheng
Despite a chain of summit meetings since early October among the world's most powerful countries, they remain far from a solution to the spreading economic crisis which, exploding first in July last year in Asia, is threatening to
Reclaim the Night collective rejects exclusion
Virginia Brown
MELBOURNE — On October 8, the Reclaim the Night collective here passed a motion to reject a bid by some student movement activists (mainly from Left Alliance) to exclude men from
By Peter Boyle
The socialist vote declined in the October 3 federal election, reflecting the swing back to the ALP in traditional Labor seats, where most of the 39 left candidates stood. The Greens and the Australian Democrats also suffered a
Jabiluka campaign moves to the cities
By Pip Hinman
The re-election of the Howard government hasn't fazed activists campaigning to stop the Jabiluka uranium mine. Plans to stop Energy Resources of Australia's (ERA) attempt to mine uranium in
Spit the dummy, why don't ya
Like many of my comrades among the Greenly Left masses, I am prone to a wee bit of cynicism every now and then.
There's nothing wrong with that. While ideals and the passion they engender may claim a fair share of
By Peter Montague
The environmental movement is treading water and slowly drowning. There is abundant evidence that our efforts — and they have been formidable, even heroic — have largely failed. After 30 years of exceedingly hard work and
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