ACTU letter on Cambodia
Members of the ACTU executive and other union leaders have written to foreign minister Senator Gareth Evans urging economic aid for Cambodia and the exclusion of the Khmer Rouge from the peace process.
The letter
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By Anne Pavy
The Rudall River National Park has been described as a "three-act nightmare" for the mining giant CRA: uranium, in a national park, and on Aboriginal land.
The state Liberal government has authorised CRA to go ahead with
For increasing numbers of Chinese, Li Ning, a former Olympic gold medal gymnast and current business entrepreneur, stands as a symbol of China's new "enterprise culture". Together with other select sports stars, pop
By Slavenka Drakulic
ZAGREB, Croatia — The room is tiny, with one small window letting in almost no light on a gloomy winter morning. Outside, it's bitter cold, -
15° C. Stiffly frozen pieces of hand-washed clothing are hanging on
Miriam Tramer
Israel's deputy minister for foreign affairs, Dr Yossi Beilin, was in Australia recently and spoke to the National Press Club in Canberra in very optimistic terms of the prospects for peace in the Middle East.
He said,
"Newly-introduced mobile telephone numbers containing three or four 'lucky eights' are auctioned off by the local post bureaux for ... as much as ... sixteen times the official national average GNP per capita. Mobile phones themselves cost an
Sri Lankans vote for democracy
By S. Piyasena
After 16 years of extreme right-wing rule, four of them under the government of slain dictator R. Premadasa, the people of Sri Lanka have overwhelmingly voted for the restoration of
Some of his best friends
"I enjoy an excellent relationship with the Aboriginal community throughout my electorate, and I am currently a patron of the Aboriginal Sports Centre at Condobolin." — Ian Armstrong, new National Party leader in NSW,
Under The Rainbow: Aquarius Revisited — The first of a three-part series. The 1973 Aquarius Festival provided a focus for many alternative and radical ideas. The dying dairy town of Nimbin in northern NSW became the centre of an alternative
US gay activist harassed
US gay rights activists say that police and corporate harassment continues of participants in the historic April 25 March on Washington for Lesbian/Gay/Bi Rights.
On the day before the march, gay rights activist
By Jo Mountwinter
Dave Riley's article on food irradiation (GLW, March 17) issue was basically correct, though it overstated the effectiveness of food irradiation.
In fact, the process kills only some of the bugs, and slows down the
UN and Cambodia
Of all the crimes against humanity committed in the name of the UN (Gulf War, Bosnia etc) by far the worst is the role of the UN in Cambodia as detailed by John Pilger in his latest film Return To Year Zero. Despite their
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