ADELAIDE — On February 8 members of Sydney's campaign against the third runway treated people in Rundle Mall to tape recordings of aircraft noise as part of a national tour to highlight how intolerable the noise is. The demonstration aimed to
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"Anything is available to be sold if the price is right." — Ron Ward, general manager of TNT Harbourlink, which owns the Sydney monorail, on suggestions that the eyesore might be removed by government.
Read my intentions
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Hobart anti-woodchipping meeting
By Rebecca Meckelburg
HOBART — A "Stand up for the Forests" public meeting called by the Wilderness Society on February 7 attracted more than 900 people. While only 400 could squeeze into the hall, another
By Kim Moody
With the support of many pro-labour Democrats, Congress overwhelmingly ratified the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the new worldwide free trade agreement.
One reason for the big Democratic "yes" vote was that,
End woodchipping
The "Independent Environment Coalition" has sprung up in Byron Bay, with local action on major environmental policy.
Convenor and film-maker, Bob Cummins, wants to see big changes in economic policies to rescue farmland and
Reprinted here are parts of a faxed letter to Matthew J. James, associate professor and chair of the Department of Geology at Sonoma State University in California. It was sent by Macarena Green, a biologist now in the Galapagos Islands. The islands,
Movie: Indochine (1992) — The turbulent relationship between a French mother and her adopted Vietnamese daughter against the backdrop of the growing liberation struggle in the 1930s. ABC TV, Friday, February 17, 8.30pm.
Actively Radical TV —
By Jennifer Thompson
You could be excused for not knowing it, but the ACTU has some policy positions that are relevant and useful in the current debate about woodchipping. Sadly, the peak union body is being unusually reticent about expressing
Pornography and sexual violence
By Kath Gelber
The question of pornography and sexual violence has often been debated in 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly. Whether pornography has a causal link with sexual violence is crucial to broader questions of
91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly has passed a further milestone in its publishing as an independent progressive newspaper. Recently, the millionth copy rolled off the presses.
Sometime late in 1994, 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ entered a very exclusive club of progressive
Corporate sponsorship of schools growing
By Heidi Pegrem
SYDNEY — A report presented to the national conference of the Australian Education Union on January 20 revealed that corporate sponsorship of schools is expanding in all states,
A tax by any other name
The federal government's current hyperbole promoting a carbon tax is gradually being revealed as nothing but a cynical exercise in revenue raising.
The Labor government is seeking to exploit the perfectly sensible
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