Jennifer Thompson

  • Western hypocrisy on Iraq

    On October 29, Iraq's Revolutionary Command Council announced that US citizens and aircraft working for the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) on Iraq would be banned. However, the Iraqi leadership's hope of forcing a

  • Stop the racist Wik bill!

    Stop the racist Wik bill!On October 22, two Liberal MPs broke ranks to abstain from the second-reading vote in the House of Representatives on the government's racist Wik bill. Another Liberal MP went to a Christian "Praise

  • 20 years of Reclaim the Night

    20 years of Reclaim the NightThe number of brutal attacks on women in recent weeks serves as another reminder of the sexism that not only encourages individual men to lash out, but which permeates all

  • Unemployment and the great pretender

    The headlines about an increase of just under 75,000 people in work in Australia last month were welcomed by government leaders. But the news came just a couple of weeks too late for former employment minister, Amanda

  • Native title: myths and realities

    On September 4, the day the Coalition's Wik bill went before parliament, John Howard told the ABC's 7.30 Report that obstruction of the bill would mean Aboriginal people could have a "veto over the further development

  • Campaign defending native title grows

    Campaign defending native title growsThe Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission has rejected the government's native title bill, introduced to parliament on September 4, calling it unfair and divisive. The

  • Bob Brown: Stop Howard's Wik plan!

    Bob Brown: Stop Howard's Wik plan!The Coalition government plans to have its "now you see it, now you don't" native title amendment bill through parliament by December, according to Liberal Senate leader and

  • Multiple attacks on working women

    The federal government's budget cuts and changes to industrial relations are nudging women out of public life and back into a traditional family care role, charges a non-government submission to the UN Commission on the

  • Defend native title: stop Howard's 10-point land theft!

    On July 30, the United Nations special rapporteur on indigenous people reiterated what the National Indigenous Working Group (NIWG), church leaders and others have been saying — and what the Australian government has

  • Driving women out of the work force

    John Howard's July 10 comments to Sydney radio interviewer Alan Jones, supporting a "homemaker's allowance" to encourage women to drop out of the labour force have been linked to a "white picket fence" view of Australia and

  • Anti-nuke protests

    Anti-nuke protestsAboriginal traditional owners protested at the gates of the Orebody No. 3 of Ranger uranium mine in Kakadu in the NT on July 8. On the same day, the first anniversary of the International Court of

  • Protest US moves on Palestine

    Protest US moves on PalestineSYDNEY — The Committee for Safeguarding Jerusalem had its first public action here on July 11, with a hundred-strong protest in front of the US consulate. The demonstrators — members of