and ain't I a woman: Hollingworth blames the victim
The statements made by Governor General Peter Hollingworth on the ABC's February 18 Australian Story program, perpetuate sexist attitudes about female sexuality.
Describing sexual abuse of
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BY JIM MCILROY
BRISBANE — The government's so-called "anti-terrorism bill" will massively strengthen the powers of the Australian security Intelligence Agency (ASIO), Ross Daniels, Amnesty International activist and lecturer at Queensland
BY SHUA GARFIELD
HOBART — Students at the Hobart campus of the University of Tasmania (UTas) will vote in a referendum on whether to remain affiliated to the National Union of Students (NUS) on February 25-March 1.
The Hobart campus is one of
Howard must go!
By February 22, it appeared that former defence minister Peter Reith had
finally decided to hang on to the hot potato of blame in the children
overboard scandal.
Admitting that he knew the federal Coalition
BY MAX LANE
The chairperson of SMUR (Students in Solidarity with the People), Mahmudal,
was arrested in Banda Aceh on February 19 during a demonstration organised
by ORPAD (Acehnese Women's Democratic Organisation).
SMUR is an
BY EVA CHENG
Capitalism's nagging overcapacity problem refuses to go away. Having long plagued many key industries, the problem found new and sharp expressions in the global steel industry in the wake of the 1997-98 economic crises in Asia, Russia
BY NORM DIXON
The SBS Dateline current affairs program on February 13 broadcast
a special report Killing Mugabe: The Tsvangirai Conspiracy and a
follow-up report on February 20, by Walkley Award-winning Australian journalist
Mark
BY MARGARET GLEESON
SYDNEY — Thirty ALP members and trade unionists attended Labor for Refugees general meeting on February 17.
Federal MP for Sydney Tanya Plibersek told the meeting that the February 12 protest rally outside Parliament House
BARBARA CANTERO, a representative of the Cuban Communist Youth (UJC), recently visited Australia to explain the activities of he organisation, learn more about the political situation in the Asian region and request increased solidarity for the Cuban
BY SARAH STEPHEN
In order to defend the mandatory detention of asylum seekers, both Labor and Coalition governments have had to convince the Australian people that it is both necessary and justifiable to treat those who arrive in Australia without
ALP
The federal Australian Labor Party is not doing a very good job of resurrecting itself to be a political alternative.
First, it was unable to produce a majority to support a principled stand on refugees. Now it is allowing itself to be
BY SARAH PEART
GLASGOW — At 5am on February 11 a convoy of mini buses, cars and vans carrying 500 anti-nuclear activists from across Europe made their way to the home of Britain's Trident nuclear missile submarine base at Faslane on the Clyde
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