By Vanessa Hearman MELBOURNE — Albert Langer, a political activist in Neither, a group campaigning for a mixed-member proportional (MMP) voting system, was sentenced to two and a half months' jail for contempt of court on February 14. He had placed
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By Jennifer Thompson Statements by leaders of the Islamist Refah (Welfare) Party since they won the greatest number of votes in Turkey's December 24 elections have considerably toned down their pre-election radicalism. Refah won 21.38% of the vote to
A poll released by the Washington International Energy Group earlier this month shows the lowest recorded levels of support among utility executives for the development of new nuclear power plants, and uncertainty about the economics and relicensing
By Sarah Stephen [This article is a response to Tasmanian Greens MHA Mike Foley's article "3 steps to job growth" in the Daily Planet.] Debate and discussion on the issue of unemployment and job creation rarely get much of a public hearing beyond the
In the two years of its existence, the Native Title Tribunal has not been able to resolve a single case. Who is to blame? Kauser Khan-Rasool reports. Two years after the Native Title Act, NSW Aboriginal communities have found a new and unexpected
By Norm Dixon More than 100 Cuban doctors will arrive in South Africa before the end of February. The doctors will staff posts in rural areas where apartheid-educated medicos refuse to work. Dr Nkosazana Zuma, health minister in the ANC-led
By WALHI Indigenous communities in Central Kalimantan maintain an Australian-owned joint gold mining venture is polluting their rivers. PT Indo Muro Kencana (IMK) is a joint-venture mining company comprising Muro Offshore Pty Ltd (Ashton Mining,
By Karl Charikar MELBOURNE — The City Link project is as much a federal election issue as it is a state one. But in the jockeying for votes between Liberal and Labor, transport, pollution and congestion problems have been pushed to the sidelines.
Hurrah for dubious corruption! "The present system, though it is dubious and corrupt, does involve a good number of distinguished people and talent." — British historian Ben Pimlott on the House of Lords. Equality "Equal Employment Opportunity 7th
Give bread to the people I guess we can afford it. Well, we must admit we live in some sort of decent luxury. Of course, we deserve it, thanks to the superiority of our enterprising mind and our special standing in the order of things. But let our
By Janet Parker SYDNEY — The No Aircraft Noise Party (NAN) sprang into existence weeks before the NSW state election of March 1995. Its goal was to end the damage inflicted on the homes, health and quality of life of those affected by the opening
By Jennifer Thompson The debate over privatisation — never far from the surface, especially in Victoria — has risen again in the federal election campaign over the proposed sale of Telstra by a Coalition government, and over Labor's own record of
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