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It's becoming almost farcical. Members of our judiciary espouse extreme sexist comments so regularly that you would swear these people lived with their eyes and ears closed to the real world.
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MIM attacks union, locks out miners
By Jim McIlroy
BRISBANE — The deepening confrontation between Mt Isa mineworkers and mining giant MIM Holdings Ltd moved toward a crisis as the company locked out its entire work force on the morning
By Kath Gelber
More than 35,000 women from all over the world are expected to converge on Beijing in September for the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women. The UN has claimed the conference will "set [the] women's agenda into next
Nuclear testing
The lives of the people of Moruroa and Fangataufa in the South Pacific are in more danger following the election of the new French president. Jacques Chirac has signalled his intention to break the 1992 moratorium and resume
Students protest with a tent university
By Emma Webb
ADELAIDE — Students have established a "tent university" outside the ALP state office following the No Fees National Day of Action rally on May 3.
The tent university —
The Rhythm of Time
There's an inner thing in every man,
Do you know this thing my friend?
It has withstood the blows of a million years,
And will do so to the end.
It was born when time did not exist,
And it grew up out of life,
Land rights first
The ACTU has launched a campaign to take the republican issue out of the hands of the academics and the lawyers. So the unions want a say in the republican issue. That's a very good idea. They should have a say and so should
By Lisa Macdonald
"Foetal Welfare and the Law", a report released late last month, stems from an inquiry commissioned in 1993 by the Australian Medical Association. It followed several incidents in which women who were about to give birth had
By Kim Linden
Around 100 people attended a May 1 forum on the trafficking of Burmese women and girls in Thailand held at the Overseas Services Bureau in Fitzroy, Melbourne. The forum was the first leg of the "Traffic of Pain" speaking tour and
Budget limits education access
By Francesca Davidson
The projections for higher education in the 1995 budget signal the ALP government's commitment to privatisation, and hence reduced access to education.
Access to Austudy will be
By Lisa Macdonald
On May 29, the Senate will debate the federal government's Racial Hatred Bill 1994 (RHB). According to the attorney general, Michael Lavarch, in his second reading speech to the House of Representatives, the bill "fills a gap
By Andrew Watson
BRISBANE — Some 200 building workers, members of other unions and supporters of the locked-out Mt Isa mineworkers picketed the headquarters of Mount Isa Mines Ltd in Ann Street here on May 12.
Members of the Construction,
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