How PR buries the environment
Global Spin: the corporate assault on environmentalismRevised editionBy Sharon BederScribe Publications336 pp., $29.95 (pb) Global Spin reveals the sophisticated techniques being used around the world by powerful
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By Dave Holmes
WOLLONGONG — Industrial pollution, in all its many forms and with
all its attendant consequences, has long been a fact of life in the Illawarra.
And nowhere are the effects more pronounced than in the suburbs near BHP's
Students at Birzeit University celebrated the unconditional release of those imprisoned by the Palestinian Authority (PA) in the widespread crackdown that followed the February 26 demonstration against France's Prime Minister Lionel Jospin.
Inner-city bypass condemned
By Jim McIlroy
BRISBANE — "The ALP-controlled Brisbane City Council's planned inner-city bypass will cut a swathe through beautiful Victoria Park and spew traffic out into suburban streets already overloaded in
Bank merger will hit Tasmania hard
By Alex Bainbridge
HOBART — In November, when it sold the Trust Bank for $149 million, the Labor state government promised that there would be no job losses, no branch closures and a "net benefit" for
East Timorese women reflect on 1999
By Vannessa Hearman
DILI — Activities to mark International Women's Day on March 8 here included performance art and a public forum on the place of women in the rebuilding process in East Timor. Held in a
By Doug Lorimer
The following article is abridged from a talk presented to the Marxism 2000 conference in Sydney, January 5-9, 2000. Utilising Karl Marx's theory of capitalist development, V.I. Lenin concluded 85 years ago that all the features
Exemplary
"This is a great example of what government can achieve when we work in partnership with the private sector to create greatly enhanced spaces and facilities for the community." — NSW Labor deputy premier Andrew Refshauge after
Nuclear waster dump: 10 reasons for a referendum
By Jim Green
1. Sydneysiders have been told that long-lived intermediate-level nuclear wastes — including reprocessing wastes from the nuclear reactor in Lucas Heights — will definitely be
Mardi Gras parade puts politics up front
Comment by Tom Flanagan
SYDNEY — The Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras has been criticised in recent years for becoming too commercialised, at the expense of the progressive politics that marked its
Rage against Wall Street
On a cold January day, militant rock band Rage Against the Machine took to the heart of the world financial system to film a video clip for "Sleep Now in the Fire", a track from the band's The Battle of Los Angeles. The
By Mark Abberton
Five hundred people participated in a four-day congress beginning February 23 in Sentani, in Indonesian-controlled West Papua, to discuss efforts to build a unified leadership for independence. About 1000 security personnel stood
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