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Keywords: Organic

  • AUSTRALIA

    GM patents exploit the poor

    • Charles Rue
    • 26 May 2008
    2 Comments

    Brazil produces plenty of food and has large exports thanks to its plentiful GM crops. Yet 40 per cent of its people go to bed hungry. GM is about making money, not feeding the hungry.

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Reinterpreting Islam

    • Shahram Akbarzadeh
    • 01 April 2008
    10 Comments

    Recently it was widely reported that the Vatican is updating its 'list' of sins. Less publicity has been given to the re-interpretation projects of Islamic religious authorities — activities that challenge stereotypes of Islamic law as fixed and static.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Green consumerism counterproductive

    • Jen Vuk
    • 15 February 2008
    4 Comments

    It's time to scrutinise the rapid rise of the 'shopping green' movement in the US and elsewhere, and assess the sum total of its effect on the environment. By buying bottled water, organic food, or sunscreen, consumers are arguably shutting the healthy individual in and the threatening world out.

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    Live Earth goes with the consumer flow

    • Tim Kroenert
    • 12 December 2007

    Live Earth had united popular musicians around the world for a series of concerts highlighting climate change. In an oblivious act of irony they had contributed, on several levels, to the very problem they were trying to confront.

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    Governments duped over GM food crops

    • Charles Rue
    • 22 August 2007
    13 Comments

    Australian governments have been caught up in a religious type rapture over biotech industry promises. They are seemingly unaware of their economic strategies, which provide for big long-term profits through monopoly control of the food industry.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Catholic-inspired Bayrou seeks to break French left-right mould

    • Stefan Gigacz
    • 02 April 2007
    1 Comment

    French Presidential candidate Francois Bayrou could emerge as favourite for the run off as socialists and conservatives seek to block their rivals from the Presidency. The 55 year old practising Catholic has managed to carve out political positions that respect Church teaching without necessarily alienating other groups.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Becoming native to this large place

    • Terry Monagle
    • 11 December 2006
    2 Comments

    White Australians are slow to invent a language which matches this continent and mutes the shock-horror reaction to drought. While politicians talk about Australian values, "little" people are working at a much deeper study of what it means to be native.

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Protecting women from danger in Darfur

    • Ben Fraser
    • 11 December 2006

    Internally displaced person (IDP) camps offer a modicum of safety and sustenance amidst spiraling levels of deprivation and insecurity. But there is an increasing incidence of rape and physical assault upon women who have ventured outside the camp to comb the barren landscape for firewood. In Darfur, an environment where law and order often functions as the exception rather than the rule, rights are regularly challenged and violated. For those denied protection, each day plays out in a familiar way—seeking little, but risking all.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Pastoral Dreams

    • Matthew Klugman
    • 06 July 2006

    Are they utopian or can they be realised? Matthew Klugman reports.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    The frontier fallen

    • Tom Griffiths
    • 05 July 2006

    Historians are fighting a mini war over frontier history and the number of Aboriginal dead. Tom Griffiths argues for a different approach.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Cooking up a storm

    • Juliette Hughes
    • 02 July 2006

    Lots of women are Nigella-ing around their kitchens as I write; she has a lot to answer for.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    A slow look at food

    • David Sutherland
    • 29 May 2006
    1 Comment

    David Sutherland tracks the rise and rise of the Slow Food movement. It tries to educate us all to the advantages of organic produce and traditional cooking.

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