Greenpeace to document Antarctic climate change
By Pip Hinman
In an attempt to pressure governments to set greenhouse targets, Greenpeace has embarked on a four-week expedition to document emerging signs of climate change in the Antarctic. The
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Taking Our Time: Remaking the Temporal OrderBy Mike DonaldsonUniversity of Western Australia Press, 1996. 206 pp., $26.95Reviewed by Phil Shannon Any passing extraterrestrial from an advanced civilisation would be scratching their two heads with
By Gabriel Torres
After 37 years of civil war, the Guatemalan people are feeling as optimistic as they did in 1944, during Guatemala's democratic revolution. The general command of the URNG (Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity), the army and
SA 'youth crime wave' a myth
By Emma Webb
ADELAIDE — In the lead up to the South Australian election due this year both Liberal and Labor are trying to out do each other in the so-called war against youth crime. In the recent Liberal Party
The costs of school privatisation
By Marina Cameron
The sinister side of the government push towards school privatisation reared its head in early January when the Sydney Morning Herald reported large fee increases planned by Sydney's private
A tribute to Tony Cabardo
By Sonny Melencio
Tony Cabardo, a long-time political activist and fighter for socialism and democracy in the Philippines, died of cancer in Manila on January 19. He was 43e years old and had spent most of his life in
By Peter Gellert
MEXICO CITY — The peace process in the conflict-ridden southern state of Chiapas suffered a major setback over the weekend of January 11-12. In response to President Ernesto Zedillo's modifications to a bill on indigenous rights
Russian teachers strike for wage pay-out
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — When more than 3 million Russian school pupils ended their annual winter holidays in mid-January, some students did not return to class at all, as teachers who had gone unpaid
Actively Radical TV — Sydney community television's progressive current affairs producers tackle the hard issues from the activist's point of view. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Thursday, 10pm, and Saturday, 7pm.
Access News — Melbourne
Pick of Adelaide's music crop
FruitFruitproduced by Tony Nesci and FruitReviewed by Melanie Sjoberg The 1995 Victor Harbour Folk Festival was dominated by the exciting sound of a new band called Fruit. The marquee was packed and encores demanded.
By Pip Hinman
The $7 billion of cuts in last year's federal budget were obviously going to have a worse impact on the poor. A study commissioned by the Australian Council for Social Service (ACOSS) and the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU)
Euthanasia
Voluntary euthanasia opponents, Northern Territory attorney general Denis Burke and Kevin Andrews, MHR, speaking on ABC Radio on January 6 seem to have avoided logic in their arguments.
Burke's assertion that residency in the NT is
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