CANBERRA — Forest Embassy organisers are angered that the National Capital Planning Authority (NCPA) has refused permission for the Forest Embassy to camp from November 4 to 8 on the lawns of Parliament House.
"The irony of the situation
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Future of land bill in doubt
By Stephen Robson
The federal government has got itself in a mess over the Indigenous Land Corporation and Land Acquisitions Bill.
Badly drafted, the bill was offered as a cheap image
Progressive candidates win on Victorian universities
By Bronwen Brook and Rachel Evans
MELBOURNE — Throughout 1994, students in Victoria have been fighting for the right to be represented, through the campaign against
Writing Dangerously: Mary McCarthy and her World
By Carol Brightman
Harvest, 1994. 714 pp., $29.95 (pb)
Reviewed by Phil Shannon
Mary McCarthy tends to be remembered, if at all, as the US author of a sexy novel from the
Thousands of women and children mobilised around Australia on October 28 to reclaim the night. Since its origins in the 1970s, this annual march has given expression to women's determination to find answers to domestic and sexual violence. This year,
Anti-fees protests in Adelaide
By Susan Love and Michael Unger
ADELAIDE — One hundred and fifty people attended a "No Fees" rally at Adelaide University on October 27. The rally was organised by the socialist youth
Rwandan refugees used as pawns by old regime
By Zanny Begg
On October 24 officials of the former ruling party in Rwanda, the Republican Movement for Democracy and Development (MRND), and its military wing the interahamwe, took
Poem: Storming the Desert
By John Tomlin
No more dumb bombs
for DEATH —
they're smart now.
Had an education
on how to seek out
that little extracurricular
bit of flesh
and sear it RED.
By Zanny Begg
Eighty-six environmentalists were in court on October 27, facing charges for protesting to save Wild Cattle Creek State Forest from logging operations.
The arrests were a result of a protest that involved more than
European Union considers ban on PCP
The European Commission is considering proposing a comprehensive European Union-wide ban on pentachlorophenol (PCP) according to a report in Environment Watch: Western Europe. This is the result of a
Only two months remain until the end of the year. In that time we need to raise a further $30,000 for the 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly fund appeal in order to make our target for 1994.
You can be sure that over the next two months, a fast pace will
User-pays water
By Kristy Koglin
ADELAIDE — The pressure to privatise any form of consumption has brought into question the free supply of water. The drought and declining water quality have also brought into question water
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