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Nuclear reactor not necessary

Nuclear reactor not necessary By James Clark SYDNEY 鈥� Greenpeace held a public meeting dockside of theRainbow Warrior on March 24 to raise the profile of opposition to another nuclear reactor at Lucas Heights in Sydney. Speaking

The country and people that 'don't exist'

Macedonia: The Last Peace To be screened on SBS Television as part of the Cutting Edge series of documentaries Tuesday, April 6, 8.30 p.m. (8 p.m. in Adelaide) Reviewed by Michael Karadjis One might begin to gain an insight into the

Israel escalates terror in Gaza

By Sean Malloy Israel's treatment of Palestinians in the Gaza strip has reached terror proportions in the last three months. Tikva Honig-Parnass writes in the March issue of News From Within, "Since the 'left government' took over the reins,

Hesse elections: gains for left and right

By Frank Noakes FRANKFURT 鈥� Anna Seifert, a Green member of the Frankfurt city parliament, talked to 麻豆传媒 Weekly about the local elections in the state of Hesse on March 7. Smaller parties of the left and right achieved swings,

It's time police violence was stopped

By Shannon Ewart In 1987 Jacqui Payne, a lawyer with the Aboriginal Legal Service in Brisbane, presented a paper to the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science, which stated in part that her Aboriginal clients

Business plans 'free market' high schools

Business plans 'free market' high schools By Sean Malloy The Business Council of Australia (BCA) and the National Industry Education Forum (NIEF), of which the BCA is a founding member, are proposing to extend economic "rationalism" into

How can one own the sky?

In the international Year for Indigenous People, the Dutch government is in conflict with the Innu people of Canada. GINA ROGERS reports from The Hague. Since 1986, the Royal Netherlands Airforce has performed more than 10,000 low-level

The seven deadly myths of privatisation

The arguments put by the advocates of public utility privatisation are strong on rhetoric but generally weak on fact, according to JOHN ERNST, associate professor of sociology at the Victoria University of Technology. Ernst, one of a panel of

A modest success

A modest success By Kamala Emanuel NEWCASTLE 鈥� The Modest Day Out was a success here on Sunday, March 14. Sydney has the Big Day Out. Last year, Newcastle bands fed up with this city's lack of initiative organised their own three-

Human Rights Commission demands action on Bougainville

By Norm Dixon In a significant vote that has gone largely unreported by the Australian media, the United Nations Commission on Human Rights meeting in Geneva has called on the Papua New Guinea government to end the economic blockade of

Panama's Censors back down

Panama's Censorship Board gave in to international pressure from human rights and media groups, journalists and other prominent individuals on March 18 by lifting its ban on the film The Panama Deception. The retreat came only hours before the

Come again, please

Come again, please Celebration of Irish Music State Theatre, Sydney Reviewed By Bernie Brian The man behind many of the recent tours of Irish musicians, Jon Nichols, indicated that this celebration may become an annual event. If the