Next time you see an opinion piece about how women are finally breaking into this or that male domain, or how young women are now "doing it for themselves", or any of the current epidemic of "you've come a long way baby!"
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The full picture of the attempted genocide of Australia's indigenous people still remains largely unacknowledged in official Australian history. This is because of (rather than despite) the fact that the forcible removal
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Commission fails to protect tunaThe future of the critically endangered southern bluefin tuna is now even bleaker after the international body charged with its protection failed yet again to take action to save it. The
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White privilege and working-class unityIt is not just in Australia that racism is on the rise. A poll of 16,000 people in the 15 European Union countries in December found that 9% said they were "very racist", 24% said they
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GEELONG — More than 400 women attended the sixth Women and Labour Conference at Deakin University on November 29-30. The 65 panel and workshop presentations crammed into a day and a half covered topics as wide ranging as women
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Pick up any newspaper in any city on pretty much any day of the week, and there'll be at least one article quoting one or another politician, so-called expert or social commentator on how "society" is paying a price for
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Women and Labour ConferenceWomen from around Australia will gather at Deakin University in Geelong November 28-30 for the sixth national Women and Labour Conference. These conferences were an important part of the women's
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In response to US State Department criticism of his visit to Libya on October 23, South African President Nelson Mandela has accused the US administration of racism and condemned its "arrogance to dictate" where South African
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Welcome to Australia — and destitutionThe hardship caused by the two-year waiting period for social security payments has been especially severe because of the government's tighter guidelines for special benefits.
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Later this month, the federal immigration minister, Philip Ruddock, is expected to announce new entry rules for immigrants under the skills category. According to media reports, the rules will require applicants to prove that
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The Pauline Hanson phenomenon has sharply polarised opinion. Hanson's statements, and the failure of the establishment parties to counter them, have created more space for every reactionary idea and organisation to crawl out
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The United Nations' first Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 produced a lot of rhetoric about the severity of the global environment crisis, but virtually no action. The second summit, held in New York at the end of June,