By Dave Riley
Food irradiation is back on the menu. Australia's three-year moratorium on it expired on December 12. The National Food Authority will soon develop "standards on the process of treating food with ionising radiation to increase
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Meeting supports public transport
By Alex Cooper
MELBOURNE — At its peak the smog in Melbourne is equal to that in New York, according to Dr Graeme Lorimer, an environment specialist. Addressing a meeting of 250 people at the Melbourne
Cuba solidarity conference in Mexico
Ciudad Juarez — Cuba solidarity groups from Mexico, the USA and Canada are planning a new drive to send $180,000 of donations to Cuba. The decision came out of a trilateral solidarity conference held in
Kenan denied legal aid on assault charge
By Peter McGregor
The case of Sean Kenan is due to come before the ACT Supreme Court on March 17.
Sean was arrested at the anti-Aidex demonstrations in Canberra in November 1991 and charged
Greenhouse over Sweden
By Greg Peters
STOCKHOLM — A series of dramatic shipping accidents and near misses has occurred in the Baltic region since the Shetlands disaster. It is apparent that the north European transport infrastructure
South Korean socialist jailed
Ilbung Choe, a South Korean socialist, publisher and political prisoner since October 1992, was not among thousands of people granted amnesty by the South Korean government last month.
Choe, who had published
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — Antinuclear activists in Russia plan a vigorous campaign against a new government program which would increase sharply the number of nuclear power reactors operating on Russian territory. The government's plans
The trophy wife
It's well known that no warm, well-rounded human being would ever be a successful capitalist politician. You'd have to be a few sandwiches short of a picnic to get into the game in the first place. That's what makes it
Handy reference on Indonesia
A Dictionary of Indonesian History Since 1900
By G. B. Clancy
Sydney: Sunda Publications. 236 pp. $15.00
Reviewed by Max Lane
This is a modest but quite good publication. It will be particularly useful
A world of facts
Third World Guide 1993/94
Instituto del Tercer Mundo
631 pp. $60.
Reviewed by Sean Malloy
"The World as seen by the Third World" notes the Third World Guide on the cover. The Third World Guide was first published
By Greg Peters
STOCKHOLM — The Swedish government has landed in one of its biggest crises to date with plans to build a permanent road and rail link over the resund to Denmark. This engineering monsterpiece, intended as a symbol of new and
Comment by Teresa Dowding
There was so much that frustrated and angered me in Susan Barley's article ("Child-care and promises", GLW March 10) that I felt compelled to answer some of her assertions.
As a working mother of one child, I am
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