Our Jim and the big green Brisbane ALP Lord Mayor, Jim Soorley, has a proposal to make us all environmentally friendly and to stop the destruction of the biosphere. He tells us so in his many new TV advertisements on the subject. It's so simple
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Desperate Kirner boycotts ALP By Peter Boyle MELBOURNE — Premier Joan Kirner's government is looking desperate. On June 12, her sub-faction in the Victorian ALP, had to organise a boycott of a meeting of the party's state administrative
By Kevin Healy A week when congratulations are in order. Congrats to a company, to its subsidiary and to the law. A toast to that fine example of law-abiding corporate responsibility, North Broken Dill Pissko, to its fine example of law-abiding
Jump and Other Stories By Nadine Gordimer Bloomsbury. $34.95 Reviewed by Nicholas Southey With this new collection of 16 short stories, Nadine Gordimer, South Africa's 1991 Nobel Literature Prize winner, once again displays her marvellous
By Ken Davis On May 17, more than 2000 people took part in Sydney's commemoration of the ninth world AIDS memorial. Several blocks of Oxford Street were filled with the silent mass of people, holding candles in memory of dead friends. At
By Graham Mathews NEWCASTLE — A capacity crowd of around 600 people packed Newcastle Town Hall on May 26 for a public meeting to "Save the Rail". The meeting was called by Newcastle community groups to protest against the decision of the
By Francesca Davidson MELBOURNE — An extremely successful World Environment Day rally was held in the city square on June 6. Weeks of hard work paid off as about 300 young people, mostly from high schools and on their first rally, turned up
Plan to break Bougainville blockade By Peter Boyle MELBOURNE — A group of solidarity activists plan to try to run the Papua New Guinea military's blockade of Bougainville later this year in a refurbished 90-year-old ketch called Flinders.
By Peter Annear PRAGUE — By sending a majority of nationalist and left-of-centre candidates into the new federal parliament in June 5-6 elections, Czechoslovakia's voters signalled that the free- market economic reform program is far from
Personnel from the NSW Environment Protection Authority raided the Lucas Heights nuclear facility in Sydney on June 11, and claimed to have found radioactive waste leaking from drums, and safety equipment that had not been functioning for up to
"Given Bush's increasingly destructive role, we feel that the Earth Summit would be better off if he didn't come to Rio", said Greenpeace's Earth Summit coordinator Josh Karliner, echoing a sentiment widespread not only in Rio but around the
By Michael Rafferty The WA Labor government has made a renewed attempt at developing the old brewery site on the Swan River near Kings Park in Perth. On June 2, it announced that a deal would soon be finalised with Multiplex Constructions to
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