Sustaining Our Forests
By Kara Joss
1994. 121 pp. $15
Reviewed by Lisa Macdonald
Sustaining Our Forests is a much needed and very useful resource for both the novice and the well informed on forest conservation in Australia. The product of
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Corporate sponsorship of schools growing
By Heidi Pegrem
SYDNEY — A report presented to the national conference of the Australian Education Union on January 20 revealed that corporate sponsorship of schools is expanding in all states,
CANBERRA – Our world is in crisis. The world's resources are mined in an unsustainable way, more and more of arable land is becoming unproductive, the climate of the earth is under threat and the distance between rich and poor is increasing inside each country and between countries.
By Mikael Karlsson
Swedish author Hans Andersson has fought against neo-Nazism for many, many years. This involves publishing books about organisations whose sole desire is to remain unknown to the public.
This naturally creates certain
A tax by any other name
The federal government's current hyperbole promoting a carbon tax is gradually being revealed as nothing but a cynical exercise in revenue raising.
The Labor government is seeking to exploit the perfectly sensible
ADELAIDE — On February 8 members of Sydney's campaign against the third runway treated people in Rundle Mall to tape recordings of aircraft noise as part of a national tour to highlight how intolerable the noise is. The demonstration aimed to
Agency bargaining scrapes through
By Phil Shannon
CANBERRA — An agency bargaining agreement has been narrowly accepted by members of the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) in the federal Department of Human Services and Health. With
Conspiracy
Directed by Daryl Dellora
Written by Daryl Dellora and Ian Wansbrough
Produced by Sue Maslin
Film Art Doco (1994)
Screening on ABC TV, Sunday, February 19, 8.30pm
Reviewed by Norm Dixon
February 13 was the 17th anniversary
Pornography and sexual violence
By Kath Gelber
The question of pornography and sexual violence has often been debated in Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly. Whether pornography has a causal link with sexual violence is crucial to broader questions of
End woodchipping
The "Independent Environment Coalition" has sprung up in Byron Bay, with local action on major environmental policy.
Convenor and film-maker, Bob Cummins, wants to see big changes in economic policies to rescue farmland and
Looking out: Setting the record 'straight'
By Brandon Astor Jones
"The bombardment of negative imagery is not only having a devastating effect on blacks', especially black youths', view of themselves, but also on how others see them." —
Speak-out calls for forests and jobs
By Chris Spindler
SYDNEY—A lively speak-out of some 500 people on February 9 finished with the chant, "Jobs not woodchips, stop the logging now".
The speak-out, initiated by Resistance and
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