NSW Labor hides its agenda for women
By Amanda Mitchell
Sixty-five women from the Bligh electorate attended a public meeting on February 18 in the Woolloomooloo public housing estate to hear Pam Allen, NSW shadow spokesperson on women's
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By Eva Cheng
The creative accounting of a 28-year-old whiz-kid in faraway Singapore blew open a US$1 billion hole into which the British merchant bank Barings fell, never to emerge. Observers fear that other financial "time bombs" are still
Sunshine Coast students walk out
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — Students at Nambour High School in the Sunshine Coast hinterland walked out of school in late February in support of Honey Marich, a 15-year-old classmate excluded for wearing a
By Jackie Coleman
MANAGUA â More than 30,000 supporters of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) rallied in the Plaza of the Revolution here on February 19 to mark the 61st anniversary of the assassination of Augusto C. Sandino.
By Melanie Sjoberg
ADELAIDE — Parliament House steps were surrounded by chanting crowds on February 26 as up to 6000 people gathered to protest against the woodchipping of old-growth forests. The numbers, greatly exceeding the predictions of
ADELAIDE — Flinders University students gathered at the plaza on February 28 for a "Hunt for Chubb". Students were anxious to hear the new vice chancellor, Ian Chubb's attitude towards the fees issue. He was encouraged to publicly field questions
Forum discusses euthanasia
By Amanda Mitchell
SYDNEY — "People have a right to options about death, just as they have a right to options about life", said Paul van Reyk, author of Choosing To Die.
Van Reyk was addressing a February
TWS exclusive?
On February 17 a small demonstration against woodchipping was organised in Wollongong by The Wilderness Society (TWS). The demonstration was a positive step for the environment movement in Wollongong, but sadly the organiser of
Victorian nurses enforce work bans
By Kim Linden
MELBOURNE — Victorian nurses voted unanimously on February 17 to impose work bans in support of a nationwide campaign for an 8% pay increase.
Members of the Australian Nursing
NAWAL HASSAN OSMAN, founder of the Sudanese Women's Organisation Yed El Marra (Women's Fist), is touring Australia, promoting Community Aid Abroad's Walk Against Want on March 26. Osman is a campaigner against female genital mutilation in Sudan. She
By Matthew Beager and Bruce Marlowe
The South Australian food poisoning tragedy follows food safety cuts by Liberal state governments. But these cuts have developed alongside federal Labor government attacks on quarantine and food inspection
Owl endangered
One of Australia's rare nocturnal animals, the sooty owl, is in danger of extinction due to the lack of a law to protect it, according to the Concerned Residents of East Gippsland (CROEG).
Scientist Paul Peake, who has spent
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