By Fiona Carnes
Despite its pre-election promise to maintain existing ABC funding and retain triennial funding, the Coalition government is threatening major cuts to the ABC's funds. Friends of the ABC are concerned that the cuts will mean that
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By Jennifer Thompson
A May 25 announcement by the Netherlands Justice Ministry of a plan to arbitrarily deport more than 4000 Iranian asylum seekers by declaring Iran a "safe" country has received an angry response from the Council of Iranian
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By Sujatha Fernandes in India
A secular "United Front" government has been installed following inconclusive national elections last month. No one party received a majority in the elections to the eleventh Lok Sabha (parliament). The right-wing
The 65-year-old US Plant Patent Act (PPA) has not succeeded in its purported aims of encouraging plant breeding or contributing to genetic diversity, according to a report by the Rural Advancement Fund International. RAFI felt that an examination of
By Jon Lamb
ADELAIDE — Chemical sampling results released by Greenpeace on June 17 show that the waters surrounding BHP's Whyalla steelworks have levels of zinc and ammonia up to 320 times above Environment Protection Authority licence
This is the abridged text of a speech by Shumei Ikehara, the general secretary of the Antiwar Landowners Association of Okinawa, at a May 25 public meeting in Tokyo. The Japanese government's plan to expropriate our land is facing many problems. In
Pink TriangleBy Miranda MorrisUniversity of NSW Press, $26.95Reviewed by Fiona Carnes "Damned in the eyes of the world" was the headline on the front page of the Hobart Mercury following the decision of the United Nations Human Rights Committee that
By Margarita Windisch
Depo Provera is a long-acting hormonal contraceptive administered in three-monthly injections. It has been praised by the medical profession for its effectiveness. There is, however, considerable controversy surrounding the
Rally against Grand Prix sponsor
MELBOURNE — On June 7, the Kennett government announced that Qantas would replace Transurban as the sponsor of the Australian Grand Prix. Save Albert Park responded by announcing a boycott campaign. On June 15,
By Reihana Mohideen
OSAKA — At midnight on March 31, the lease on a piece of land inside a US base in Okinawa expired, making the Japanese government an illegal occupant of the plot on the Sobe Communication Site (a radar installation commonly
Evil EmpireRage Against the MachineSony MusicReviewed by Michael Bramwell "Che Guevara's Guerrilla Warfare", "The Marx-Engels Reader", "Women in the Transition to Socialism", "The Indian Uprising in Chiapas". Not titles one would expect to be
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