Blockade of M2 freeway continues
By Andrew Hall
SYDNEY — A blockade of the M2 motorway by up to 30 community activists has continued since February 12. Protesters say the tollway, in Sydney's north-west, sacrifices community consultation,
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Brisbane rally against woodchipping
By Kathy Newnam
BRISBANE — Around 2500 people attended a February 25 rally against woodchipping organised by the Wilderness Society in King George Square.
Leonard Lee, a Brisbane journalist, called
Not a lot has changed
By Brandon Astor Jones
"It is a sad day to stand here in 1994 and talk about racism this pervasive ... not in a foreign country, but right here in [America]" — Keith Carson.
The late Malcolm X referred to black
By Stephen Robson
PERTH — "This must be the largest record of the views of Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islanders which has been made", commented Greens (WA) Senator Christabel Chamarette to 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly.
The Senate's select
SUSAN HARBEN is running for the ALP in the March 25 NSW state elections in the inner-Sydney seat of Bligh. The seat, currently held by independent Clover Moore, is regarded as the "pinkest" seat in Australia. Harben is ex-president of the Sydney Gay
BRISBANE — The Council for Civil Liberties has condemned state attorney-general Dean Wells' handling of the proposed new Criminal Code as a disaster and asked Premier Wayne Goss to withdraw it. In a 19-page letter to Wells, council vice-president
By Craig Cormick
Based on highly reliably international contacts, leaked documents and horoscopes from several TV magazines, Nostradamus' Media Watch presents a highly accurate forecast of political events across the globe.
O.J. Simpson
Sinn Fein conference
On February 26, Sinn Fein held its annual Ard Fheis [conference] in the Mansion House, Ireland's first parliament, at which over 500 delegates voted in support of the IRA cease-fire of September 1. At this conference it was
PNG to gut forest law
By Glen Barry
The PNG timber industry and its political allies have tried repeatedly to undermine forest legislation passed in 1991. Now the new minister of forests, Andrew L. Posai, has proposed that the government
Rachida, an Algerian mother
SBS. Tuesday, March 14, 8.30pm
Reviewed by Jennifer Thompson
This French documentary, made in 1994, captures many of the terrible difficulties and choices facing ordinary Algerians today. Rachida and her seven
By Jim Beatson
Noam Chomsky, on his recent trip to Australia, when asked about Bougainville, explained, "I don't think it's a hard one. It's a pretty reasonable if people get to work on it. Bougainville is an easy one for Australian activists to
By Anne-Marie Donnelly
and Brendan Greenhill
BRISBANE — The Queensland Criminal Justice Commission decided late on Friday, March 3, not to charge the "Pinkenba Six" with official misconduct after they were cleared of criminal charges in
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