By Peter Montague
In the early 1990s, British researchers at Brunel University in Uxbridge noticed that male fish living downstream from a sewage treatment plant near London had testes laden with eggs. The male fish had become hermaphrodites
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The mainstream press has made much of entries in Che Guevara's diaries, made more than 32 years ago, that were critical of the conduct of the young Laurent Kabila, now leader of the Democratic Republic of Congo. There is more to the story than the
By Cliff Baxter
Health care workers, academics and doctors have called for an inquiry into the "flagship" of the projected armada of privatised health care in Australia. They say the "good ship" Port Macquarie Base Hospital leaks like a sieve
The final "Justice Tour: Fighting Hanson's Racism" meeting, in Sydney on June 13, was the culmination of a very successful national tour to encourage people to join the struggle against the racism of MP Pauline Hanson and to fight the racist polices
Prisoner of the Mountains (Kavkazski Plennik)A film by Sergei BodrovA Dendy Films release from June 26 Review by John Tognolini
Memories of the Chechen-Russian war are still fresh. The towns being bombed into the stone age by Boris Yeltsin's air
Kleenex boycott
A meeting of local residents and conservationists held in Apollo Bay on June 6-8 voted unanimously to reject an offer to meet with the multinational corporation Kimberly Clark about the current consumer boycott of Kleenex
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — Workers in one of Russia's main industrial regions are organising themselves for a day of coordinated protest action, in what could be a landmark development for the rise of a broad, militant labour opposition to the
Southern Journey, Vol. 5: Bad Man BalladsVarious artists, recorded by Alan LomaxRounder Records through Festival Review by Norm Dixon
Bad Man Ballads: Songs of Outlaws and Desperadoes is just one of a monumental series of recordings of folk
Students force libraries victory
By Kylie Moon
HOBART — On June 10, the vice chancellor's executive at the University of Tasmania decided to postpone for at least 12 months a plan to merge the two main science libraries into the main
Last October 21, the pilot of a Cuban airliner noticed a US-registered light aircraft releasing a white or greyish mist. Seven weeks later, an insect plague of plant-damaging thrips, previously unknown in Cuba, was discovered in a state farm. The
No strings attachedNo strings attached
On June 8, I gritted my teeth and switched on the TV to that epitome of gutter journalism, 60 minutes. Why? — the promise of a deeper insight into the life and times of the new head of the Office
Campaign to defend Tasmanian forests
By Sarah Stephen and Kylie Moon
HOBART — The Tasmanian Regional Forest Agreement, due to be signed in the next month, was the major focus for activities around World Environment Week this year. It is
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