Bad Girls and Dirty Pictures: The Challenge to Reclaim FeminismEdited by Alison Assiter and Avedon CarolPluto Press, 1993. $32.95Reviewed by Patricia Brien Bad Girls and Dirty Pictures is a collection of essays by women about pornography. The essays
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Among those called up on August 12 for interrogation in the regime's campaign against the PRD was Pramoedya Ananta Toer (72), Indonesia's great novelist, himself a prisoner of Suharto for 14 years. Pramoedya accepted a human rights award from the PRD
East Timorese
Kissing with
their wounds
the only
protest
left to them
Denis Kevans
By Jeremy Smith
MELBOURNE — Workers at the ACI Spotswood plant, who have staged a month-long picket, were charged and bashed by mounted police with batons on August 16. The dispute started when ACI-BTR revealed plans to retrench 59 workers,
By Pip Hinman
With negotiations over the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty stalemated, India is being made out as the major obstacle to the world ridding itself of nuclear weapons. It would be far more accurate to blame the biggest nuclear power, the
High school picket a success
PERTH — High school students held a lively picket and speak-out in the mall on August 16. The action was organised by Resistance and the Student Unionism Network, a cross-campus tertiary students' group coordinating
Argentine general strike
At least a dozen people were injured and about 100 arrested in Argentina on August 8 during a national general strike against the government's economic policy. Observance of the strike ranged from 70% to 100%, and was
By Marina Cameron and Natasha Simons
Massive outrage in the higher education sector greeted the government's pre-budget statement outlining cuts to university operating grants, increases to HECs and further up-front fees, released on August 9.
The End of Work: The decline of the global labour force and the dawn of the post-market eraBy Jeremy Rifkin Tarcher/Putnam, June 1996350pp., $26.95Reviewed by Dick Nichols This is a fascinating and maddening book, chock-full of contradictions.
International acclaim
"Perhaps the most relentlessly corrupt police service in the English-speaking world." — The London Mail on Sunday, describing the NSW police.
Bad PR
"Mining industry leaders yesterday condemned the Federal Government
Youth groups attack harsh anti-graffiti laws
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — Youth and civil liberties groups here have criticised proposals for a maximum penalty of 10 years' jail for graffiti offences in the Queensland government's draft revision of
By Ray Jackson
On June 12, a young man died of a suspected brain haemorrhage after receiving a blow, supposedly from another inmate. Between now and then four men have been placed in segregation, and two of those have been moved to the Goulburn
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