Challenges
"These are challenges facing magistrates — and the whole of the justice system — to deal with matters expeditiously." — Jeff Shaw, NSW attorney-general, commenting on disclosures that the state's overworked magistrates sometimes
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Hobart rally backs republic
By Nikki Ulasowskiand Tony Iltis
HOBART — Later this year a referendum will be held on whether Australia should become a republic. On January 26, a pro-republic rally held at the state Parliament House Lawns
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The Love GermBy Jill NevilleVerso, 1998 (first published 1969)149 pp., $19.95 (pb) Review by Phil Shannon
"A fantastic, earth-shattering, dynamic, brilliant, beautiful, touching, unbelievably sensitive, outasight book written by my sister." So
By Ken Cotterill
In 1996, Chiquita Brands' CEO Carl Lindner donated $US500,000 to US President Bill Clinton's re-election campaign. Now he wants some return. Lindner's gripe is that several Caribbean states in the Windward Island group — Grenada,
By Zanny Begg
With an apparent lack of irony, the One Nation party used Starship Troopers to advertise the launch of its new youth group, Young Nation. Resistance national coordinator Sean Healy commented: "Starship Troopers is a film about a
A history of contraception
By Sarah Cleary
Taking Precautions: the story of contraceptionA touring exhibition from the Powerhouse Museum, SydneyShowing at the Western Australian Museum until March 1. For thousands of years, women around the world
Correction
The review of the book Lost Civilisations of the Stone Age printed in the last issue of GLW was incorrectly attributed to Robert Hodder. The review was in fact written by Maree Roberts.
By Cassandra Pomroy and Mel Bull
SYDNEY — The Sydney International Women's Day collective is busy organising this year's march and rally, to be held on March 6 from 10.30am at Sydney's Town Hall. The theme for the day is "Generations of feminist
By Jim McIlroy
BRISBANE — Service delays and staffing shortages have increased in Centrelink offices as the Howard government refuses to retreat on the 5000 job cuts it has imposed on the "social security" agency. Centrelink printing operations
WA protests against clear-felling
By Iggy Kim
PERTH — On January 24, 100 people gathered in an area of old-growth forest in the south of Western Australia to protest against clear-felling. Known as the Wattle Forest, the area lies adjacent to
For self-determination and financial assistance
[The following statement by the national secretariat of Action in Solidarity with Indonesia and East Timor (ASIET) was issued as a response to the Indonesian government's statement on autonomy and
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