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
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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
Women of East Timor
"In 20 years, an untold number of women went through the horror in the Indonesian prisons all over East Timor. Many of us died of starvation and exhaustion in the mountains; others died, cremated by the napalm bombs; others were
Wollongong
Sat, March 13
Meet 11am at Lowden Square, march to Crown St Mall
Phone Angela 4226 2010
Brisbane
Sat, March 6
Meet 11am at King George Square, march at 12 noon
Phone Ruth 3254 0565
Adelaide
Sat March 6
Meet 11.30am at
By Eva Cheng
COLOGNE — The Social Democratic Party's (SPD) September victory, coming to government in alliance with the Greens, ended 16 years of rule of the conservative Christian Democratic Party and raised hopes that it might turn its back on
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
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
Eliseo Balcazar
Eliseo Balcazar, a Guatemalan trade union activist and revolutionary, died in Melbourne on January 16 at the age of 56. His entire adult life was spent in the shadow of the Guatemalan military dictatorship.
After an apprenticeship
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
By Melanie Sjoberg
ADELAIDE — "Freedom, fairness and flexibility" proclaims the South Australian government's January 23 announcement of its proposed changes to the state's industrial legislation. Acting minister for government enterprises and
Indonesian Chinese PRD leader visits
Hendri Kuok, a member of the central leadership council of the Indonesian People's Democratic Party (PRD), ended a one-month visit to Australia on January 30. One of the central purposes of Kuok's visit was to
By Michael Karadjis
New atrocities against Albanian villagers by the Serbian occupation forces in Kosovo have further highlighted the western powers' "even-handed" policy. Even more than last year, virtually every commentary in the media has
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