Editorial: How to defend native title
How to defend native title
As opposition mounts to Howard's native title amendment bill, the government is desperate to claw back support by raising the bogey that native title claims will be made over
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'Asian contagion' brings Brazilian austerity
On November 10, Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso announced a package of 51 austerity measures to shore up the real, the dollar-backed currency he designed in 1994 when he was finance
By Allen Myers
In the week before the opening of the Kyoto conference on climate change and greenhouse gas emissions, scientific studies of temperatures around the world appear to show that 1997 will be the hottest year since human beings began
By Vivienne Porzsolt
In late September, I was one of 16 international activists from Britain, the US, Canada, Belgium and Australia who converged on Israel to draw international attention to the plight of Mordechai Vanunu, who has been in solitary
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Fallout on Tahitian nuclear tests
Following the publication in Papeete, Tahiti, of the results of the independent inquiry into the consequences of the nuclear tests on the Tahitian people, several members of Hiti Tau, a Polynesian
News briefs
Young Liberal boycott campaign
PERTH — The Young Liberals (WA) have threatened to boycott Body Shop stores for selling armbands in opposition to Howard's 10-point plan. Profits from the sale of armbands — which carry a range of
Protests mark APEC
By Jon Land
Human rights and solidarity activists' protests at the APEC summit, November 22-25 in Vancouver, Canada, focused on the failure of governments in the Asia Pacific region to deal with human rights problems caused
Hinchinbrook 'beach being built'
Video evidence collected by the Friends of Hinchinbrook and the North Queensland Conservation Council shows that Cardwell Properties, the Hinchinbrook developer, is constructing a beach on the foreshore and over
By Norm Dixon
In 1884-85, the European powers sat down at the Berlin colonial conference to formalise Africa's carve-up into colonies. The orgy of brutal invasions that preceded the conference was aptly dubbed "the scramble for Africa" by the
Information nights tackle ignorance on Wik
By Andy Morison
BRISBANE — Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation in Queensland have begun a series of information nights in marginal federal electorates. Frustrated by the federal
Rally opposes uranium mining, woodchipping, greenhouse emissions
HOBART — About 150 people staged a lively march through the city streets here on November 28 to protest against plans to mine uranium at Jabiluka in Kakadu. The protest, organised
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