Later this month, a meeting in Berlin is scheduled to evaluate how well governments are doing in their commitment, made at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro three years ago, to reduce their emissions of
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Health fears at Leigh Creek
By Michael Unger
The Leigh Creek Trust, a group of 130 former Leigh Creek residents and workers, is preparing for a Supreme Court class action against the Electricity Trust of South Australia (ETSA).
Leigh
By Michael Tardif and Sujatha Fernandes
COLOMBO — The Korea-Ceylon Footwear Manufacturing Company is a joint venture in the Colombo free trade zone. In the last four months the company has been the site of significant workers' struggles and is
Environment policy launched
By Roberto Jorquera
SYDNEY — A lively discussion around environmentally sustainable alternatives marked the environment policy forum for the Democratic Socialist campaign in the NSW elections.
Speakers at
By Jennifer Thompson
The clamour of demands for action to cut the federal budget deficit and current account deficit has risen in the past month to a cacophony. Federal Labor faces the recurring problem associated with a period of economic
Taking the Risk out of Democracy: Propaganda in the US and Australia
By Alex Carey
University of NSW Press, 1995. 214 pp., $19.95
Reviewed by Alex McCutcheon
As Alex Carey sees it, "The twentieth century has been characterized by three
By Anthony Brown
Since discovering what appears to be a major oil find in the Timor Gap in February 1994, Brisbane-based oil and gas company Petroz NL has been the focus of protests over Australian exploitation of the situation in East Timor.
Sri Lankan students in eight-year campaign
Students at the Institute of Aesthetic Studies in Colombo have been struggling for eight years to win hostel accommodation, better facilities and increased funding. For the last two years, they have
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