SYDNEY — The headquarters of the NSW Forestry Commission was occupied for over four hours on November 18 by 30 activists from the North East Forest Alliance (NEFA) who, from their position in the Forestry Commissioner's office,
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Dozens of countries have banned the Japanese freighter, Akatsuki Maru, from their territorial waters. Australia has not. The ship, which left the French port of Cherbourg on November 7, is carrying 1.7 tonnes of the highly
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The first National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women's Music Festival, With Open Eyes, will be held in Sydney from November 30 to December 5. The festival comes at a time when Yothu Yindi, Kev Carmody and other
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SYDNEY — The Aboriginal Legal Service has launched a campaign against Sydney's bid to host the Olympics in the year 2000 — despite claims by bid officials that Aboriginal people in NSW support the bid. Activists from
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Under the law of Pakistan, a woman's own evidence is not admissible in a court considering a charge of rape. A conviction may be obtained only on the evidence of four "reputable" male witnesses, or upon the confession of the
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SYDNEY — I had never seen a "literary event" like it, and obviously neither had author John Pilger and journalist Wendy Bacon. On October 10 Gould's Bookshop in Newtown, a huge cavern packed to the rafters with shelves,
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One hundred Greenpeace activists from across Europe chained themselves to the main gates of the French plutonium reprocessing factory on the morning of October 14. Their aim was to alert the world to the danger posed by
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Proud of his enemiesSYDNEY — At a public signing of his new book Distant Voices at Gould's Bookshop in Glebe on October 10, John Pilger elaborated upon his refusal to enter into a public brawl with Ben Hills. Hills
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SYDNEY — "So much of theatre today is about entertainment, rather than art and ideas", says Don Mamouney, artistic director of the Sidetrack Theatre Company. To help overcome such stagnation, the company's Performance Week
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The commercial oligopoly which has been maintained in Australian TV broadcasting since 1956 may soon be dented by community TV groups, finally allowed access to the sixth and final high power channel. The report of the
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SYDNEY — Central Australian band Amunda launched Larrikin Records' release of their second album, Civilised World, at the Rose Shamrock and Thistle Hotel on September 30. Despite a slow start, foldback problems and some
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On September 8 Robin Greenburg, former head of the Western Women investment group, was sentenced to 17 years' imprisonment by the Perth District Court following her pleas of guilty to 55 offences relating to the collapse of