Honeymoon mine assessment begins
BY JIM GREEN
Canadian company Southern Cross Resources has released its environment
impact statement for the proposed Honeymoon uranium mine in north-east
South Australia.
The operation involves
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Making a difference?
On June 8, Australian Democrat Senator Natasha Stott Despoja described
her experiences of being a woman politician. She was addressing the launch
of the New York-based Women's Environment and Development
It was worth it
A friend wrote recently, informing me of the pain his grand-daughter
is experiencing. She is bi-racial and lives in a neighbourhood in England
where only a few children look like her.
 Children taunt her about
BY CAROLYNE BANADOS
SYDNEY — Rallying under the banner “Quality service deserves quality
pay”, community and social workers will strike and rally on June 23, closing
down welfare services and agencies, most of them recipients of state
SEOUL — The May 31 to June 4 general strike by South Korean workers has deepened differences between the reformist Democratic Labour Party (DLP) and militants seeking to build a counter-offensive against President Kim Dae Jung's neo-liberal
BY JONATHAN SINGER
Establishment newspaper headlines still proclaim Australia's “powerhouse
economy”, but have workers really benefited from all the increased wealth
of the past decade?
Measured by growth in gross domestic product (GDP),
Caught greed, bowled Satan
“In a moment of stupidity and weakness I allowed Satan and the world to
dictate terms to me.” — Hansie Cronje, sacked as South African cricket
captain after admitting to taking money from a bookmaker.
DENIS HALLIDAY worked for the United Nations for 34 years as a specialist in Third World development. In August 1997 he was appointed the UN's chief relief coordinator in Iraq where he supervised the "oil-for-food" program until his very public
WINDSOR, Ontario — On June 4, 3000 people demonstrated against a meeting
of the Organization of American States (OAS) in Windsor, Ontario.
 The OAS, which is based in Washington, involves the heads of state
of all countries in the
Actively Radical TV — Sydney community television's progressive current affairs producers tackle the hard issues from the activist's point of view. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Sunday, 9-11pm. Ph 9565 5522.
Access News — Melbourne community TV,
BY ANTHONY BENBOW
PERTH — “Kierath says our existence is a 'planning mistake'. We've
been here at Wattleup four decades, Hope Valley a century — that's long
before the heavy industry at Kwinana. So which one is the 'planning mistake'?”
"Get sorry today, unchain John Howard's heart" was the message on one banner amongst a sea of support for reconciliation and justice for Aborigines at marches in Adelaide and Brisbane, which followed the example of the May 28 half-million people
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