By Catherine Gow
MELBOURNE — Prison privatisation plans for Victoria are the most sweeping of any Australian state. Almost 40% of Victorian prisoners will be in a private prison if the Kennett government's plans go ahead., Victoria will also
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By Norm Dixon
JOHANNESBURG — When the election results were at last announced on May 6, the African National Congress had swept in with 62.7% of the national vote and 252 seats in the 400-seat national assembly. The ANC won landslide victories
In 1925, there was an international conference on drugs which focused particularly on opium. But it also looked at Cannabis sativa. Egypt was the chief mover in persuading other nations that Cannabis sativa should be banned.
ROBYN MARSHALL was one of a party of five Australian women who acted as observers of the Salvadoran elections in March at the invitation of the FMLN. Here she describes some of their experiences.
We're not quite sure how we ended up in Ruben
By John Hallam
Eight years after the disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear reactor, the governments of Ukraine and Russia have opted to proceed with ambitious nuclear programs that they can't afford.
While studies done by the International
By Peter McAllister
NIMBIN — More than 200 people attended the Beyond Prohibition conference held in conjunction with the annual Harvest Ball here on April 30. The consensus emerging from the conference was to push for a national campaign
By Dave Mizon
MELBOURNE — Workers at Shell's Geelong refinery returned to work on May 5, having won the reinstatement of six colleagues. The settlement of the dispute also set in place a procedure requiring management to prove that a refinery
Another beginning
"It is not all that we wanted, but it is a beginning", were the words chosen by senior Palestinian negotiator Nabil Shaath to describe the signing of the accord between the Palestine Liberation Organisation and Israel on May 4
By Mary Merkenich
BOCHUM — A thousand people on April 23 took to the streets here, in the heart of Germany's Ruhr Valley. The demonstrators demanded no deportations of Kurds, an end to the criminalisation of Kurds by the Bonn government,
Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in natural history
By Stephen Jay Gould
Penguin, 1994. 479 pp., $16.95 (pb)
Reviewed by Phil Shannon
Stephen Jay Gould's latest book continues his engrossing series of essays on evolutionary biology —
Operation Sweep to continue
By Sean Healy
PERTH — On April 27 the state government confirmed that it would be reactivating "Operation Sweep", aimed at getting young people under 18 off the streets of inner city Northbridge and Fremantle.
New Wollongong Resistance Centre
By Felicity King
WOLLONGONG — The Democratic Socialist Party and Resistance opened a new centre on Saturday, April 30, with a lunch and drinks after the May Day march.
An informal occasion, the
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