By Teresa Dowding ADELAIDE — The official Multi-Function Polis logo is three linked circles representing people, environment and technology. But people and environment are not faring very well in plans for the project, and it appears even the
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SYDNEY — Queer Notion, an organisation in the gay and lesbian community here, conducted an "outing" at a press conference opposite St Mary's cathedral on August 21. "Outing only works as a political weapon because there is a stigma attached to a
Fire at Mexican pesticide plant Mexican environmentalists need international support for their effort to have an ecological disaster investigated by the country's Human Rights Commission. On May 3, fiery explosions engulfed a pesticide
By Melanie Sjoberg MELBOURNE — For two days last week, the city was engulfed by black clouds of toxic fumes as fire raged through the Coode Island chemical storage facilities. Emergency services were stretched to the limit. Evacuations around
Abortion bill an attack on the poor The NSW Legislative Council will soon be debating women's right to abortion. If passed, new abortion legislation, introduced by Reverend Fred Nile, will ban doctors from performing abortions in privately run
Comment by Doug Lorimer The gun-related deaths of 11 people in Sydney over the last week have brought renewed calls for tighter gun-control laws. On August 17, a man armed with a semi-automatic rifle killed eight people in Sydney's suburban
By K. ten Broke Anarchists, in the opinion of Anatoly Lukyanov, president of the Supreme Soviet, are one of the few political forces to be taken seriously in the USSR. That was certainly not meant as a compliment for the various anarchist
By Sally Low Control over women, no matter what social order we live in, is an important pillar of that order. If all the hundred or so women at the conference of the European Forum of Socialist Feminists in June agreed on anything, perhaps it was
By Phil McManus Everyone has heard of it, but who knows what it really means? Are the debates about postmodernism relevant only in the world of academia, or do they have an impact on the green, left, feminist and other movements for social change?
Demands for resignation over racist slur By Bill Mason BRISBANE — Calls are mounting for the resignation or sacking of Queensland Labor government whip Bill Prest over racist comments in state parliament on August 20. Prest described former
By Steve Painter New Zealand's NewLabour Party claims the recent budget of the National Party government pushed the country's economy from recession to depression by cutting demand without "putting in place balancing measures to promote
By Chris Perkins About 5000 government workers gathered outside state parliament for the NSW Labor Council's August 21 protest against the Greiner government's plans to cut public sector jobs by more than 12,000. There were also large rallies
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