Every year about 300 hectares of Otway State forest are clear-felled by the Victorian Department of Natural Resources and Environment (DNRE) for woodchips and sawlogs. In clear-felling, all the trees in a given area are removed, and the forest
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Chinese workers defend right to work
By Eva Cheng
Seven Hong Kong-based organisations have called for international solidarity with the estimated 100,000 workers in Mianyang, in the Chinese province of Sichuan, who protested for days in
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MELBOURNE — More than 150 people loudly protested outside the Frankston meeting of the One Nation party on August 6. The protesters represented a cross-section of the community and outnumbered the mainly older, mainly male One Nation
By Sujatha Fernandes
On August 15, 1947, India won its independence from Britain. With independence came not only the promise of freedom from servitude to the British masters, but also the hope of an end to grinding poverty, hard labour and
Mr Pot is alive and well and living in Thredbo
You shoulda been there. Who would have thought that beneath tons of rubble and amid the nighttime chill, someone could survive.
Rescue workers have been labouring all day and all night on the
Save Our Services rally
By Bronwyn Richards and Sharon Callahan
WOLLONGONG — On July 19, the Save Our Services Warrawong Community Committee held a successful public rally against the withdrawal of Commonwealth government services from
By Greg Ogle
Previous articles in 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ have pointed out that immigration does not cause our chronic unemployment level. The consensus of academic literature, government and even business reports is that there is no relation between levels
ANU staff take action
CANBERRA — Australian National University academic and general staff held rolling strikes and picketed all schools and faculties last week as part of the National Tertiary Education and Industry Union campaign
By Jennifer Thompson
The federal government's budget cuts and changes to industrial relations are nudging women out of public life and back into a traditional family care role, charges a non-government submission to the UN Commission on the
By Tony Iltis
HOBART — A government-commissioned report has delivered a big business wish list for the state budget. The report, by senior National Party member Peter Nixon, recommends large scale privatisation of public assets, cuts to public
Wild words and free jazz
Song of BaobabVernon Frazer with Thomas ChapinVFCISend US$20 to Echolaia Press, 132 Woodycrest Drive, East Hartford, CT 06118, USA Review by Norm Dixon
Song of Baobab is a challenging CD that combines Vernon
By Graham Matthews
The national campaign to save the Hinchinbrook wilderness has escalated following Keith Williams' Cardwell Developments getting the green light from the federal government to develop its Oyster Point holdings. On July 19, 600
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