By Lucy Svejk According to Campaign Against Sexual Assault (CASA), early this year a woman was raped and another student sexually harassed by a lecturer at an Australian National University honours students camp. This lecturer remains the coordinator
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By Peter Montague In 1990, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) funded the construction of an incinerator in a residential neighbourhood in Jacksonville, Arkansas, to destroy dioxin-contaminated chemical-warfare wastes. At the time, EPA's
By Chow Wei Cheng JOHANNESBURG — Over the weekend of October 6-8, hundreds of delegates from around Southern Africa converged in Johannesburg for the first Cuba — Southern Africa Solidarity Conference. The conference was organised by various Cuba
By Jorge Jorquera PERTH — The sight of Perth City railway station empty would usually be considered a disaster from the point of view of a regular Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly seller. But on October 17, it was an inspiring sight as Western Australia was
By Eva Cheng Late last month, the 200 or so individuals who control China adopted a blueprint steer the country for the next 15 years. The resolutions of the 14th central committee of the Communist Party of China (CCP) at its fifth plenum in Beijing
By Tom Wilson SYDNEY — It's 7am, and across the city thousands of people are waking up to their clock radios, rubbing their eyes and preparing to go to work. But in the inner west suburb of Sydenham, residents are already out of bed and preparing
River out of Eden:A Darwinian View of LifeBy Richard DawkinsWeidenfeld & NicholsonScience Masters Series1995, $19.95Reviewed by Dot Tumney This river is a river of DNA flowing through time. Genetic information flows through living things in the
By Julia Perkins PERTH — Under the pressure of its ranks and one of the most influential militant minorities in the union movement nationwide, the WA Trades and Labour Council has launched itself into an industrial campaign with some bite.
By Craig Cormick CANBERRA — Local writers have responded to a call from the international writers' organisation, PEN, for writers to voice their protest against the French government's nuclear tests using their favourite medium — writing. On
Programs of interest on Sydney Community TV (UHF 31) — Perleeka, indigenous Australians' program, nightly, 7pm. Art Experimenta, Mondays, 8pm and 11.30pm, and Tuesdays, 3am and 6.30am. Bent TV, Gay and lesbian program, Thursdays, 10.30pm and
By Ray Fulcher MELBOURNE — More than 500 people packed into the North Melbourne Town Hall on October 20 to hear journalist and human rights campaigner John Pilger speak about East Timor's struggle for independence. The meeting was organised by
By Ben Courtice HOBART — "The Greens are going for government" and are "not some kind of ginger group" Australian Greens leader Bob Brown told a fundraising gathering here on October 14. A recent poll, commissioned by North Forest Products, showed
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