GLW issue 477, published 2002-01-23.

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'Terrorism' bill to criminalise dissent

BY ALISON DELLIT In a month or so, federal cabinet will introduce laws into parliament which will criminalise political dissent and provide Australia's secret police services with more powers to harass protesters. Cabinet is proposing to allow

INDONESIA: Poor hit by new price rises

BY MAX LANE There have been student demonstrations, involving hundreds of students, in Jakarta, Bandung, Surabaya, Makassar, Denpasar and Jogjakarta against the fuel price increases announced by the Indonesian government on January 16. In the

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and ain't i a woman?: Wives for blokes in the bush

There is a saying that if prostitution is the rental of the body, then marriage is the sale. There is no better way to describe the campaign initiated late last year by the National Farmers Federation and a yet-to-be-named national women's magazine
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