Adelaide: Sat Feb 3, noon. Women's Studies Resource Centre, 64 Pennington Tce, city. Ph Rebecca 8231 6982.
Brisbane: Mon Feb 5, 6.30pm. TLC Bldg, 16 Peel St, Sth Brisbane. All women welcome. Ph 3831 2644.
Darwin: Mon Jan 29, Feb 12, 19, 26,
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The Taj Mahal, that tomb of white marble,travels the world on lips of tourists,in books, film, on-line, sent postcards.No other human edifice so exquisitely lovelyfixed the image in all our headsexpressed the royal grief of one man.She died so young
Depleted uranium (DU) is a by-product of uranium enrichment. Enriched uranium contains a greater percentage of the uranium-235 isotope than natural uranium, whereas the DU by-product contains less uranium-235 (and more uranium-238).
BY NIKKI ULASOWSKI
The December 2000 National Union of Students (NUS) conference held at Ballarat endorsed a motion to support the upcoming May 1 blockades of stock exchanges being built by M1 alliances around the country. The conference also voted
On January 15 the 24th session of the United Nations' Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women began the first of its twice-yearly sessions in UN headquarters in New York — for the next few weeks it will receive and consider
BY BILL MASON
BRISBANE — Mineworkers, their union and townspeople have condemned a decision by BHP to close two underground mines at Blackwater, 200km west of Rockhampton, and the resulting loss of 200 jobs. The closure of the Laleham and Kenmare
BY DAVID BACON
BERKELEY — California's experiment with deregulating electricity is on its last legs. "Deregulation is dead", declared Public Utilities Commissioner Carl Wood. And from the governor to the PUC to the legislature, almost everyone
BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE
HOBART — Two bills, passed into law at the end of 2000, reveal just how thoroughly former militant unionist Premier Jim Bacon has been tamed by business. The workers' compensation act and the industrial relations act have both
BY FAROOQ SULEHRIA
In its first major electoral success, the Labour Party Pakistan has bagged 12 local council seats in the Sindhi town of Larkana, home town and power base of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto. One party candidate also won in
BY MARGARET ALLUM
On January 12, a delegation of 50 US activists and scientists, led by US former attorney general Ramsey Clark, boarded a flight to Bagdad. The plane also carried US$1.5 million worth of medical aid and school supplies. The
BY KAMALA EMANUEL
For a treaty between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people to work, "first of all, [white people] have got to recognise, at the very beginning of the treaty, that this land belonged to Aboriginal people, and they stole it",
BY MEENA NANJI
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — I am buzzing through the streets in an auto rickshaw with a woman whose real name I do not know. She has no fixed address and cannot tell me where we are going. The woman accompanying me was a member of RAWA,
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