The men have failed
By Brandon Astor Jones
All over the world in ever increasing numbers, women are going to prison. In Australia, over 40% of the women in or about to go to prison are single parents of small children. Of the 300 women now
120
By Peter Boyle
December 15 is the deadline set by the United States Congress for the Clinton administration to clinch a deal with the European Community on the prolonged Uruguay round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) talks.
By Craig Cormick
Based on highly reliably international contacts, leaked documents and horoscopes from several TV magazines, Nostradamus' Media Watch presents a highly accurate forecast of events across the globe.
Peace in Somalia
Adelaide women organise
By Jane Hope
ADELAIDE — The re-emergence of women's liberation here is taking place in a climate of insecurity for women.
Jobs are being shed rapidly in the state public sector, and the threat of enterprise
By Michael Connors
Thumthong Phoirit recently visited Australia as part of the Thai delegation to the Australian Asia Worker Links conference, Workers Can Change the World. She told her story to a meeting of the Victorian Trades Hall Council on
A sick system
"Disturbing", "scandalous", "disgusting": these are among the long list of adjectives used in Brian Burdekin's report on the human rights of people with mental illness to describe their plight. Yet words are inadequate to paint the
By Ana Kailis
AUCKLAND — The emergence of the Alliance as a credible left force in New Zealand politics has left Labour with nowhere to go. With significant sections of its traditional working-class constituency now supporting the Alliance,
Women victims of Kennett's cuts
By Elle Morrell
MELBOURNE — Public opinion polls have consistently recorded a much higher disapproval of the Victorian government from women than from men. Fifty-nine per cent of women the latest Saulwick
By Jenny Long
SYDNEY — On the afternoon of Sunday, October 17, 30,000 people attended the annual Arabic Festival at Gough Whitlam Park, in Tempe, a southern suburb. The festival was described by the organisers, the Australian Arabic Welfare
By David Robie
PORT MORESBY — At the rate Pacific urban areas are growing, many are in danger of becoming unsustainable. Some, such as ghettoes like Ebeye and squatter settlements in Port Moresby and Papeete, already are.
But a University
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