Equal opportunity in cyberspace?
In 1995, academic Dale Spender wrote a book called Nattering on
the Net: Women, Power and Cyberspace. In it she urged women to join
the cyberspace race and avoid being left behind in the multimedia
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Jobs and services go, private profit grows
By Jonathan Singer
Just where does the privatisation of public services get you? Some
of the answer — cuts to jobs and services — has been splashed across
the front pages of the
By Michael Bull
MELBOURNE — Three thousand construction workers marched through the streets of Melbourne on March 17 in support of their unions' claim for a shorter working week, confident that they are close to winning their demands for a
Meeting condemns nuclear cycle
By Jo Williams
MELBOURNE — The Australian nuclear industry's justifications for building a new nuclear reactor at Lucas Heights in suburban Sydney are untrue, a public meeting here on March 15 heard. Anti-nuclear
By Roberto Jorquera
March 16 marks the twelfth anniversary of the massacre of Kurdish people in Halabja, in north-east Iraq. Madhi Kalka, a Kurdish journalist now living in Perth, has written an account of the events and their aftermath and spoke
Mandatory sentencing: it isn't over
In spite of Senate and United Nations reports finding mandatory sentencing laws are in breach of international conventions, and in spite of the Senate's March 15 adoption of a private member's bill overturning
On March 16, the Paris Club of rich creditor countries announced a suspension of Mozambique's debt repayments until July, following the floods that devastated the country earlier this month. The Jubilee 2000 coalition, which campaigns for the
April Fools' Day
Since the people seemed to grow cold in their devotion at this time, with
human apathy greatly increasing, the venerable leader of the nation, being
then in his post of pastoral care, desiring to root out the said
This is the age of the internet. The daily papers carry technology supplements
extolling the wonders that will soon descend. No reader can be left in
any doubt: better and better technology is about to solve every human need.
The future is
Griffith students unite for better conditions
By Justin Randell
BRISBANE — An upgrade of computer facilities, tutorial sizes capped at 15, free child-care, better security on campus, abolition of library fines and an end to academic job losses
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