Lalitha Chelliah
The decision of ABC TV's Compass program to screen the British film on abortion, My Foetus, has prompted a renewed debate on abortion in Australia.
Health minister Tony Abbott encouraged the debate after prominent feminists Wendy
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James Vassilopoulos
Is this the way to "celebrate humanity": to evict Roma families from where they have been living for 30 years in order to build car parks? To allow poor safety to claim the lives of 13 workers? To launch a major attack on civil
Vannessa Hearman
Kirsty Sword-Gusmao, the Melbourne-born
wife of East Timorese President Xanana Gusmao and chairperson of the Alola Foundation for women and children of East Timor, has condemned the stance taken by the Howard government on the
SYDNEY — Thirty people attended a protest outside the South Korean consulate on August 14 in opposition to Korean troops in Iraq, organised by the Sydney Korean Progressive Alliance. Speakers included representatives of the Stop the War Coalition,
I have just spent three months living in Venezuela, an oil-rich Third World country with a population of 26 million, of whom 80% live on or below the poverty line. But there are exciting events taking place in this country.
In 1998, left-wing
Vannessa Hearman
On August 11, East Timorese foreign minister Jose Ramos Horta and Australian foreign minister Alexander Downer agreed on a "framework" for a Timor Sea agreement. According to Downer, an agreement could be reached by Christmas.
Alex Bainbridge, Hobart
The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) released a controversial report on the Tasmanian forest industry on August 3 which has been roundly criticised by most Tasmanian-based environmental groups.
The report calls for the
In 2000, 29% of people in the US failed to fill a prescription because they couldn't afford to.
In 2001, the nine largest pharmaceutical companies raked in US$30.6 billion in profits.
The five most highly paid drug company executives pocketed
Jenny Francis, Kabul
Washington has a dream: following a large turnout at the polls in Afghanistan on October 9, US-backed interim president Hamid Karzai will win free and fair elections, and US President George Bush will claim credit for bringing
The wages share of the country's wealth has fallen from 61% to 53.5% since 1983. If Australia's 11 million workers had been able to maintain that 1983 share in 2004, we would have had $56 billion more in our pockets for 2003 alone. Workers are being
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