Cod liver oil polluted
By Barry Healy
Friends of the Earth UK has demanded that the British government release details of which brands of cod liver oil are most contaminated by cancer-causing and hormone-disrupting PCBs and dioxins. This
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'Hot' tourist spot?
ADELAIDE — The state government announced on July 16 that the Maralinga atomic test site, in SA's outback, would be converted into a tourist attraction, once the $100 million decontamination process has
Clear message from miners' rally
By Chris Spindler
SYDNEY — Miners' conditions will not be bargained away, Ross Peters, president of the Hunter Valley No. 1 lodge, told a crowd of 3000 miners, Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy
By Graham Matthews
TOWNSVILLE — "Boong bashing with a giant bludgeon" was how Carpentaria Lands Council coordinator Murrandoo Yanner described mining multinational Rio Tinto's attempts to secure agreement for the Century Zinc mine in
By John Gauci
SYDNEY — As part of its campaign against racism, Resistance has organised a Rock Against Racism night at the Harbourside Brasserie on Thursday, August 28. Performers include Tim Finn, Leonardo's Bride, Cactus Child, Holly Go
Aboriginal cultural centre opened
By Will Williams
@box text intro = BENDIGO — An Aboriginal cultural centre, "One Dream Time", has been established here with the aim of bringing cultural awareness to the city. The centre intends to
By Allen Myers
"DISGRACEFUL" shrieked the one-word headline, 4½ centimetres high, on the front of the July 8 Melbourne Herald Sun. Three days later, the Australian was still featuring the bashing of Keith Warburton, with photographs, on its
Review by Emily Carr
How do the leading lights of Australia's indigenous arts community respond to a year which has brought an ugly concoction of the most conservative political forces in decades? Stephen Page, artistic director and compere of
University of Tasmania general staff vote for NTEU
By Dave Abbott
HOBART — General staff at the University of Tasmania recently voted overwhelmingly for a greater choice of union membership. A group of general staff organised a secret
Celebration of lifeCelebration of life
By Brandon Astor Jones
"Even the death of friends will inspire us as much as their lives ... Their memories will be encrusted over with sublime and pleasing thoughts, as monuments of other[s]
US black activist defies deportation threat
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — "Racism is an international phenomenon", former US Black Panther Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin told a meeting at the Opal Centre on July 16, as he continued his speaking tour of
letterhead = Dishonest reporting
[This letter has been sent to the Melbourne Sunday Age.]
On July 13 Melbourne's Sunday Age ran an article which made some serious allegations, accusing the Campaign Against Racism of being "the group behind
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