Change the law on RU486
Results from Australian trials of the abortion drug RU486 expose federal parliament's decision last May to restrict access to the pill as punitive moralism, and add weight to arguments for lifting the
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Bus drivers fight attack
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — Bus drivers here are mounting a campaign to defend their jobs, wages and conditions in the face of a concerted attack by their employer, the ALP-run Brisbane City Council. Demands by the
Actively Radical TV — Sydney community television's progressive current affairs producers tackle the hard issues from the activist's point of view. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Thursday, 10pm and Saturday, 7pm.
Access News — Melbourne
Study shows danger of nuclear waste traffic
A serious accident involving a ship carrying highly radioactive nuclear waste through the waters of the Federal States of Micronesia would result in increased cancer risks, require a ban on the
By Michael Karadjis
— NICOSIA, September 5 — The following declaration was signed by 58 Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot political, cultural, trade union, peace and women's organisations on the occasion of the International Day for
Kennett's cutbacks deny women justice
By Margarita Windisch
MELBOURNE — Displaying its callous attitude towards the disadvantaged, the Kennett government is refusing to address violence against women. In a ruthless effort to cut spending,
By Peter Montague
A new global environmental problem has emerged from an unexpected source: nitrogen. Nitrogen makes up 78% of Earth's atmosphere. In its atmospheric form, nitrogen is an unreactive gas, unavailable to most living things. Now a
Far right gathers in the deep north
By Bernard Wunsch
BRISBANE — Pauline Hanson will be making her first political speech in the Queensland capital at 11am on October 4, at the Festival Hall under the banner of "Prosper Australia!". She
Privatisation push at Chinese CP congress
By Eva Cheng
Chinese President Jiang Zemin has pronounced a firm intention to further restore the rule the market and private profits to China at the Communist Party's 15th congress, held in
Left on-line
Debate erupts on Young Liberal site — Recent articles in Green Left Weekly on the far right in the Liberal Party have provoked a lively debate on the web site of the Young Liberal Movement of WA. The YLMWA was identified by GLW