Last Line of Defence screenedBRISBANE — The International Women's Day Committee held a film night on domestic violence on June 21 at the Schonell Theatre at the University of Queensland, with generous technical help from
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Queensland gays and lesbians are celebrating. The state Labor government has recognised same-sex couples and their families for the first time under Queensland law. The new Queensland industrial relations bill includes same-sex
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Four thousand and five hundred food items that sit today on supermarket shelves around the world are the product of genetic engineering, including many sold in Australia. Most of these contain genetically modified (GM) varieties
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Antibiotics transformed human health beyond recognition after World War II. No longer were children and adults dying of common bacterial diseases dreaded by our grandmothers — pneumonia, tuberculosis, polio, scarlet fever,
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Computer swallows research grant applicationsNew research grants in medicine for 1999 throughout Australia were announced on November 20. As usual, only 25% of grant applications to the National Health and Medical Research
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Protest against parallel runwayBRISBANE — The peace and quiet of the tree-lined streets and coffee shops of suburban Bulimba were disturbed on February 14, when 4000 people marched down the hill to demonstrate against the
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Doctors in Peru performed about 110,000 sterilisations last year, plus 10,000 vasectomies, as part of a government birth control campaign. The number of women sterilised was more than three times the number in 1996. Since 1961,
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We will not know if the food we put in our mouths has been genetically engineered, if proposals from the Australian and New Zealand Food Authority are accepted by the government. There will be no requirement that fruit and
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Rally supports abortion rightsBRISBANE — Around 100 supporters of abortion rights rallied in the King George Square on April 24 as part of a national weekend of action for women's right to choose. The rally called on the
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BRISBANE — On March 7, Veronica Brady, the controversial nun from Western Australia, launched her biography of poet Judith Wright, titled South of My Days. The launch, attended by more than 300 women, was held at Loreto College
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Science versus capitalismThe ideologists of contemporary capitalism claim that the fall of communism was significantly contributed to by the west's superiority on the science and technology front. Star Wars
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Antibiotics, big business and super germsAt a private hospital in Brisbane, two patients were admitted with a bacterial infection that had multiple resistance to antibiotics, in particular, resistance to the last