Scenes from the Invasion Day rally in Meanjin/Brisbane
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By Kath Gelber
When the Australian women's cricket team travelled to New Zealand recently to compete in an international event, the only reason we got to hear about it was because a cricketer left out of the one-day team claimed that she had
By Dave Holmes
MELBOURNE — Some 600 people rallied in front of the Brunswick Town Hall on March 5 to protest against racism and fascism. In recent months the heavily multicultural inner-city suburb has experienced instances of neo-nazi racist
The Morning After: Sex, Fear, Feminism
By Kate Roiphe
Hamish Hamilton, 1993. 180 pp. $18.95 (pb)
Reviewed by Zanny Begg
From the ivory towers of Princeton, Kate Roiphe has let loose a tirade against the women's movement. Her book The
By Norm Dixon
JOHANNESBURG — Thor Chemicals is again at the centre of a major controversy, this time involving the import into South Africa of toxic wastes. Thor Chemicals is a British-owned company notorious for its callous treatment of black
Sinn Fein's Ard Fheis (annual conference) was held in Dublin on February 26-27. Media attention focused on the party's response to a joint statement from the British and Irish prime ministers last December, known as the Downing Street Declaration.
Death of a Nation, the new film on East Timor narrated by Australian journalist JOHN PILGER, has had a major international impact — and has been attacked by the Australian government even before it has been shown here. Pilger, in London, was
John Ross is an investigative journalist based in San Francisco. He is the author of a report titled "Smoking Gun? Tom Gerard, Death Squads and the Banality of Evil", on the activities of former CIA employee Tom Gerard in Central America and the
By Norrian Rundle
MELBOURNE — Recent cuts to the Victorian ambulance service has cost lives, according to the Ambulance Employees Association. Within one week there were three "avoidable" deaths of people in their 20s and 30s.
Vince
Blonde Ambition
By Melanie Sjoberg
Before You Were Blonde, Adelaide's wild, jean-clad choir, launched Blonde Ambition, its first three-track CD, at the Fringe on February 18 to an unusually sedate but appreciative audience.
The vibrant
Qld students lose free transport
By Nikki Ulasowski
BRISBANE — Public meetings were held last week in a number of schools over the state Labor government cutting access to free public transport for students travelling to school.
The
Cinderella Goes to Market: Citizenship, Gender and Women's Movements in East Central Europe
By Barbara Einhorn
Verso, 1993. Australian distributors Allen and Unwin
280 pp. $34.95 (pb)
Reviewed by Tracy Sorensen
"I think our East European
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