BY TRISHA REIMERS & SUE BULL
GEELONG — Amid huge local controversy, more than 200 people protested against a war on Iraq outside the Avalon International Airshow on February 15. The protest was organised by the Geelong Anti-War Coalition.
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GEELONG — A picket line has been running since December 13 on the site a gas-fired power station is to be built just outside Geelong, in the Golden Plains shire. The picket was set up following the decision of the Victorian
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GEELONG — Controversy has erupted among environmentalists, trade unionists and community activists over plans for a $200 million power station to be built eight kilometres outside the city. Anger at the plan bubbled over at an
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BY BRONWYN JENNINGS & TRISHA REIMERS The collapse of insurance giant HIH, the relocation of an Arnotts factory from Melbourne to Brisbane, and rumours of plans by retail company Target to relocate its head office from Geelong to Melbourne have
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More than 50% of US garments are made in sweatshops. The vast majority (up to 90%) of sweatshop workers are women. In Australia, there are more than 300,000 outworkers. These outworkers are paid a few dollars an hour, or a pitiful
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Big Kev is excited — and he should be, because he's discovered that, just like sex, nationalism sells (in his case, sells cleaning products). Big Kev is just another Aussie capitalist who's telling workers that they should
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GEELONG — So heated were the different opinions that police had to be stationed at a February 6 meeting of 200 people to discuss the future of the Offshore Music Festival, which has been a regular occurence in the seaside town
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Perth IWD invites men to marchPERTH — The International Women's Day Collective here decided on February 22 to allow men to march at this year's IWD rally, although at the back of the march. The compromise means that, for the
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The ugly side of 'beauty'Selling "beauty" is big business. It's profitable and it's everywhere. But the whole idea that there is such a thing as an ideal beauty standard, let alone that women should try to live up to this
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With the recent charging of two doctors in Perth for performing an abortion, the issue of women's right to control her body and her life has once again made it into the headlines of major newspapers and