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1. Write on: letters to the editor

   responsible executives in National Textiles? Jean Hale Balmain NSW Animal rights I'm a believer in ... Weekly goes by without an incorrect or dismissive reference to our animal cousins, who by the way, suffer ... "farms", and so on. 91������̳ Weekly February 9 (page 11): "Animal behaviour cannot be extrapolated ...

2. An American icon

   Disney broke through to animation success in 1928 with Mickey Mouse in Steamboat Willie (Disney did ... age" (1937-42) of animated features (Snow White, Pinocchio, Bambi, Dumbo, Fantasia) consolidated ... Disney's reputation as a major, and politically safe, animator. Wealth and Oscars were his reward. How ...

3. Hundreds protest new NSW land clearing laws

   plans to weaken land clearing laws.  The Coalition came to power promising famers more rights to ... organisations, Labor leader Luke Foley, Greens MLC Dr Mehreen Faruqi and Mark Pearson from the Animal Justice ... under the Native Vegetation Act native animals had been saved. “Now they want to remove that, putting ...

4. Rally to save the Strzelecki forests

   old growth and cool temperate rainforest. The forests are home to the many rare native animals ... lives in the Strzelecki ranges. Many of these animals depend on the hollows in old trees for their ... largely unmapped until the state Liberal government sold the logging rights to the area to the US-based ...

5. Protesters converge to halt Adani’s coal mine

   talking through different tactics and strategies. Our legal rights were explained, along with our ... well-used by the locals and had become a wild life corridor for native animals. But the Melbourne Cricket ...

6. 'Women will die because of this': Trump's anti-abortion gag rule threatens lives of millions of poor women

   Democracy International solidarity Economy Feminism Abortion right to choose Donald Trump ... any international health care group involved in any activity in support of women’s rights to choose.  ... reinstated the controversial global gag rule, which women’s rights advocates fear will increase unsafe ...

7. 80 years on, Steinbeck’s classic still packs a punch

   nameless wife symbolises the limited life choices of US women of the time. Denied the right to enjoy her ... demonstrates something else, as well. Like the workhorse character Hercules in George Orwell’s  Animal Farm ...

8. Write on: letters to the editor

   about the equivalence of humans and other animals. Animal rights are not equal to human rights. Neither ... letters in Write On recently have tried to defend animal liberationism. All rest on the unsupported ... assertion that there are no essential differences between the human psyche and the psyches of other animals ...

9. The fight to save the Pilliga

   Zebedee Parkes Coal seam gas (CSG) Santos Pilliga Forest Anti-mining Aboriginal land rights ... Nurses and Midwives' Association (NSWNMA) Pilliga Forest In the Pilliga Aboriginal land rights ... surveying local animal and plant species in 1993. “The diversity here was incredible,” he said. “You never ...

10. Victoria's Strzelecki koalas need protection

    Victoria, in the Strzelecki Ranges to the south-east of Melbourne, “needs to be managed the same as animals ... management unit. “Koala populations in the south-west of the state need management to look after their animal ... rights, so they don't suffer when plantations are logged. Their only protection at the moment is the ...

11. Does meat make the meal?

    flesh), some animals are supposedly born to eat meat. Humans,we are told, were created with plant eating ... there is a lack of information about the specific effects of animal as opposed to vegetable protein in ... animal and vegetable continuum, both quantity and quality of protein vary. Soybean flour is over 40% ...

12. Write on

    humane. I believe that every human being and animal has the right to a full, pain-free and happy life. If ... titled Animal Liberation. Whether we have evolved as meat eaters, omnivores or vegetarians is not at all ... a preference — not a need. We are killing and paining animals en masse, out of choice. Of course not many of us ...

13. At its convention, Portugal's Left Bloc gears up for year of crucial fights

    left vote, including the animal rights party People-Animals-Nature (PAN), was 52.2%: as of October it ... the racist and xenophobic right is rising, writes Dick Nichols from Lisbon. Over the past three years ... austerity that was applied between 2011 and 2015 by the right-wing administration of the Social Democratic ...

14. BoJack Horseman continues humourous take on dark topics

    on Netflix The award-winning Netflix animated black comedy show BoJack Horseman follows the ... Beatrice says in response to the murder a civil rights activist “at least no one else will be assassinated ... the 2017 Annecy International Animated Film Festival Special Distinction for a TV Series, the 2017 ...

15. School students call for compassion, not detention

    on November 15. The action was initiated by Secondary Students for Refugee Rights (SSFRR). SSFRR ... Caitlin Woodland said: "As the new government has come to power, the rights of refugees have been ... to dehumanise them in the public eye. Every asylum seeker has a right to safety.” Student and refugee ...

16. Simple but likeable

    campaigns in the US, including animal rights, pro-choice and AIDS charities. As a high profile defender of ... lesbian rights, she calls increasing lesbian visibility "the quiet revolution". Unfortunately, ...

17. Write on: Letters to the editor

    384 November 10, 1999 Write on: Letters to the editor Animal consciousness "Unlike animals ... conclusion? It is quite clear that animals, like human, possess consciousness — to be without it is to be ... comatose! Self-consciousness though is a more complex state, and there is no doubt that animals possess this ...

18. The corporatisation of Mardi Gras

    that the entry was renamed "Sydney Queers for Animal Rights" to placate Mardi Gras. ... Peter Hackney 827 February 21, 2010 The modern queer rights movement was born on June 28, 1969 in ... succour to the queer rights movement worldwide, including here in Australia where in 1978 the first Sydney ...

19. Trump ratchets up anti-immigrant campaign

    not alone on this — the ultra-right throughout Europe and elsewhere have similar anti-immigrant ... cyclone fencing between them, as though they are animals. But at least the chain-link cages — dog kennels, ... rights advocates say that the practice continued in some instances — and has been pushing officials at ...

20. There is no such thing as a ‘green’ war

    ridiculous as it sounds. Our so-called national security is based on unprovoked invasions, gross human rights ... conflate that personal choice with the actions necessary to dismantle the machine that profits from animal ...

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