GLW issue 207, published 1995-10-17.

Ambulance dispute widens

By Sean Healy MELBOURNE — The dispute between the Victorian government and the Ambulance Employees Association (AEA) has escalated over the last week with the former threatening to use its emergency powers legislation and privatise the service if

Women's liberation conference

By Kerry Vernon BRISBANE — "Feminism in the '90s: beating back the backlash" and "Strategies for women's liberation" will be the main themes at a Women's Liberation Conference being organised by the Democratic Socialist Party on October 29. For

Women's shelters: out in the cold

Women's shelters: out in the cold By Angela Matheson SYDNEY — When Nisha finished her HSC and asked her father if she could take a part time waitressing job, he waved a pan of boiling oil in her face and threatened to kill her. She believed him

*Women's rights: universal and indivisible

At the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in September, there was a debate about whether to include in the Platform of Action the right for women not to be discriminated against on the grounds of their sexuality. In the final outcome, the

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Australian News

Students, science and sustainability

By Emma Webb ADELAIDE The annual Students, Science and Sustainability (SS&S) conference was held at Flinders University on September 27-30 with the theme, "Think Globally, Act Locally, Start Tertiary". Around 150 tertiary students attended, with 50

Who really manipulated the students at Aspley?

By Bernard Wunsch BRISBANE — Six of the 10 students who participated in the September 8 walkout of Aspley State High School have claimed that they were manipulated by Resistance, the socialist youth organisation which has been active in the

Further Australian News

International News

Militant strikes in South Africa

By Norm Dixon Municipal workers and nurses have continued to take militant industrial action despite repeated threats of dismissal and legal action by African National Congress-led national, provincial and local governments. Press reports indicate

Widespread protests alarm Beijing

By Eva Cheng Social discontent is rising in China, in such an alarming way that Beijing has reportedly put its entire state machinery on the alert to contain or crush it. The Cheng Ming magazine, published in Hong Kong, has a reputation of being well

Further International News

Editorial

Let the Timorese stay!

Recent public statements by Prime Minister Paul Keating and foreign minister Gareth Evans denying the refugee status of East Timorese who have fled their Indonesian-occupied country to Australia, is yet another despicable episode in the federal Labor

Cultural Dissent

The truth about two-thirds of humanity

The World: A Third World Guide 1995/96Montevideo, Uruguay: Instituto del Tercer Mundo623 pp.Reviewed by Chris Beale This latest in the Guide series is the best yet. Published in the Third World, by Third World journalists, it is more than a handy

Funking heaven

FunkensteinTim HopkinsABC MusicReviewed by Jenny Long This album — Hopkins' second — takes the mantle of both acid jazz and funk. Its motivating force is Hopkins' unbridled saxophone, combining with Mike Nock's sometimes flying, sometimes solid

Further Cultural Dissent

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