Olivia Burlingame Goumbri, Washington For many months now, energy stability has been a hot topic in Washington. Local government officials, members of Congress, and even the president have raised the issue with as much fervour as they do the "war on
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ADELAIDE — A forum on renewable energy production drew 140 people to the University of Adelaide on September 21. The forum, organised by the Conservation Council of SA and Greenpeace, sought to outline the state of SA's renewable energy sector and
Tim Stewart, Melbourne A September 15-16 national symposium hosted by the Beyond Nuclear Initiative — a collaboration between Friends of the Earth, the Australian Conservation Foundation and the Poola Foundation (Tom Kantor Fund) — featured
Duncan Meerding, Hobart In a letter dated September 15 to the Wilderness Society (TWS), timber giant Gunns Ltd revealed that its original integrated impact statement (IIS) had underestimated, by a factor of 45, the dioxin emissions for its proposed
Outrageously enriched "UN inspectors investigating Iran's nuclear program angrily complained to the Bush administration and to a Republican congressman yesterday about a recent House [of Representatives] committee report on Iran's capabilities,
Peter Gellert, Mexico City A new stage in Mexican political life was opened last weekend with the National Democratic Convention, which brings together the broad array of political and social forces that have fought against alleged electoral fraud
Jeff Shantz The Canadian government, under both Liberal and Conservative parties, has moved quickly over the last two years to prosecute on immigration charges, and to seek deportations of, several US soldiers who fled to Canada as war resisters.
Russell Pickering, Perth In a landmark ruling, the Federal Court on September 19 granted Western Australia's Noongar people one of Australia's largest native title claims. Covering more than 193,000 square kilometres, from Hopetoun in the south to
Adam Maclean On September 21, Australian Broadcasting Corporation members of the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) and the Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance held a 24-hour national stoppage. After 10 months of negotiations with ABC
Cleaners, members of the Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Union (LHMU), held a cake stall outside the Commonwealth Bank headquarters on September 20 as part of a "Cleanstart" campaign national day of action. The cake stall was a tongue-in-cheek
SACP It should come as little surprise that Mazibuko Jara, writing on behalf of the Young Communist League in South Africa (Write On, GLW #683), is "concerned" by the articles appearing in GLW on the politics of the South African Communist Party and
Sam Wainwright, Perth Forty workers known as the TCC 40 and their union, who were being sued by Total Corrosion Control under the Howard government's new anti-worker laws, claimed victory on September 21 when the company advised the Australian
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