NTEU dispute CANBERRA — Fifty ANU staff and students gathered on February 28 to hear speakers condemn the Labor government's handling of the NTEU pay dispute. While all speakers were defiant and stood with the NTEU line, there were many who
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By Marcus Greville A public rally is being organised by the Aboriginal History Committee (AHC) on March 9 to protest against the planned demolition of the historically significant Cyprus-Hellene Club building, the site of the 1938 Day of Mourning
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By Christopher Kennedy The project is, from an environmental point of view, frightening. In a cluttered back room the reader, an environmentalist, tries to wade through the huge pile of engineering data in the environmental impact statement. The
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By Jill Hickson International Women's Day was started by women in the socialist movement. From the 1890s, the women's suffrage movement was influenced and built by women who were members of parties belonging to the Socialist (Second) International.
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By Merima Trbojevich This story is dedicated to all the women who have lived an experience like mine or at least share my feelings. Dedicated to the women who have been pushed by war into a struggle just to survive. There are too many stories like
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By Peter Perkins SYDNEY — The Carr government has begun to restructure the State Rail Authority in line with the neo-liberal economic recommendations advocated by Hilmer. Last April the state premiers endorsed the National Competition Policy. In
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By Dave Mizon MELBOURNE — When the federal elections were announced, significant industrial disputes that had been simmering around the country, and especially in Victoria, were put on hold. Rather than helping to resolve these ongoing attacks on
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Unforgiven — The story of 81-year-old James Cameron, a survivor of a lynching in 1930, who now travels the world reminding people of the atrocities committed against African-Americans in the US. ABC TV, Sunday, March 10, 10.20pm. Moving the
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Choices — A four-part documentary series produced by 2SER-FM, Sydney, that will be broadcast on 28 community radio stations around NSW, Choices looks at the many decisions women face while juggling work, children, leisure and their partners. The
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When the federal election was called five weeks ago, Green Left Weekly quickly went into campaign mode in an effort to bring you as much information as possible about the most important issues and about progressive candidates. Environmental policies,
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By Michael Karadjis SYDNEY — "Residents terrorised by 50-strong Deuce gang", claimed one of the tabloids recently, regarding some incidents on the East Fairfield Housing Estate (Villawood). In fact "deuce" was just a word written on walls by an
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Unconditionally In the highly acclaimed work The Color Purple, poet and novelist Alice Walker wrote, "... it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it". Today, I envision myself in a field somewhere
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By Peter Boyle With the Liberal-Nationals now in government federally and in all states but NSW, we can expect an acceleration in the attack on the rights and living standards of the great majority. Now that the election has been won, the Coalition
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Based on highly reliable international contacts, leaked documents and horoscopes from several TV magazines, Nostradamus' Media Watch presents a highly accurate forecast of political events across the globe. Buchanan runs alone After Pat Buchanan's
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By Dr Tuntuni Bhattacharyya The equally negative responses of Paul Keating and John Howard to a question during the ABC's pre-election "great debate" on February 25 about their positions on women's right to choose abortion clearly illustrated that
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Right wingers The recent activity of the South Australian Police (SApol) in exposing the links between the neo-Nazi group National Action (NA) and the sinister world of illegal arms dealing and illicit drug distribution should be commended. The next
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Because ... BECAUSE our work is never done and underpaid or unpaid or boring or repetitious and we're the first to get the sack and what we look like is more important than what we do and if we get raped it's our fault and if we get bashed we must
News
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By Peter Boyle SYDNEY — An attempt by Marrickville Labor Mayor Barry Cotter to trick inner-city residents into supporting the ALP's plan to build a second airport at Badgerys Creek in outer-western Sydney backfired when demonstrators turned against
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By Tony Iltis WOLLONGONG — The quiet village of Jamberoo, eight kilometres inland from Kiama, became the centre of some unusual goings-on after an article appeared in the February 21 Illawarra Mercury reporting that the Ku Klux Klan was planning a
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By Dave Mizon MELBOURNE — On February 22, 100 people attended a march and rally in the Footscray shopping centre organised by the Public Tenants Union to mourn the death of public housing. The rally was conducted as a funeral procession complete
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By Natasha Simons Several hundred university students joined Resistance campus clubs around the country at first year orientation weeks, held over the past two weeks. In addition, around 1200 copies of Green Left Weekly were sold and hundreds of
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R.I.P. "In Rupert Murdoch and Ken Cowley we have two men beside us we trust with our lives." — Fax to media organisations from Canberra Raider players aligned with Murdoch's would-be Super League. Of others? "The number one champion of nuclear
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By Rohan Gaiswinkler HOBART — The feud between the Australian Democrats and the Greens turned into an all-in brawl just days before the federal election, with Democrat Senator Robert Bell suing the Greens' Senate team for defamation. The action was
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By Katrina Dean CANBERRA — The CPSU national leadership organised a candidates' forum here on February 28. Only three candidates for the seat of Canberra were invited to speak — Senator Bob McMullen (ALP), Gwen Willcox (Liberals) and Gordon
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By Sue Bull CANBERRA — Since February 23, when it was ordered to negotiate with unions over their 9% pay claim, the Carnell Liberal minority government has used every possible tactic to stall negotiations. Mediators unacceptable to the unions have
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By Kathy O'Driscoll SYDNEY — Four hundred Telstra workers and supporters attended an anti-privatisation rally at Town Hall Square on February 28 organised by the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) and the Communications, Electrical and
Analysis
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John Howard, the Liberals and the big business media are of course claiming that the Coalition's big election victory is a "mandate" for the policies they plan to implement. That's a lie. There is no mandate. There's no mandate for Howard's policies
World
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JACKIE GRUNSELL is a member of Militant Labour in Sheffield. She was interviewed for Green Left Weekly by WENDY ROBERTSON. Can you tell me about the situation with racism in Britain and the campaigns that Militant has been running against it? One of
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By Karen Lee Wald HAVANA — US-Cuba relations came tumbling down along with the two Miami-based planes shot down over Cuban airspace on February 24. Although the US State Department had repeatedly warned the anti-Castro Cuban-American group
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By Reihana Mohideen MANILA — Around 20,000 workers representing some 300 factory-based unions attended the first regular congress of the socialist labour centre BMP (Solidarity of Filipino Workers), held here on February 21. Elected unanimously by
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By Norm Dixon US President Bill Clinton on February 8 signed into law the Telecommunications Reform Act. Tied to the bill is another law which contains sweeping restrictions on the use of electronic communications called the Communications Decency
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The International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers' Unions (ICEM) has reported that Milton Dabibi, general secretary of the ICEM-affiliated Nigerian oil and gas workers' union PENGASSAN, has been arrested in Lagos and is being
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ANC minister calls for limits on human rights A senior member of the ANC-led government of national unity, justice minister Dullah Omar, has called for key sections of South Africa's current interim constitution that protect individual rights to be
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By Renfrey Clarke MOSCOW — Coal miners in Ukraine returned to work on February 16 after one of the hardest-fought strikes in the former Soviet republic in recent years. The resumption of work followed an agreement by the government to negotiate
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US pilots have been violating international law by entering Cuban airspace for many years. Since 1994, there have been at least nine incursions, according to Cuban authorities; after each, protest notes were lodged with the United States Interests
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By Eva Cheng As the anniversary of the 1959 uprising in Tibet against Chinese occupation draws near, speculation is growing whether there will be new outbursts of pro-independence protests there. On March 10, 1959, Chinese troops went into the
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By Reihana Mohideen MANILA — The 10th anniversary of the EDSA rebellion, which brought down the US-backed dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos in February 1986, was marked by protests in Metro Manila on February 23. The protests were spearheaded by the
Culture
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By Geoff Spencer MELBOURNE — Public radio station PBS FM presents Babes on the Waves — a 24-hour extravaganza of women's music on International Women's Day. Eighteen of PBS's finest women announcers, who excel in the hitherto male-dominated world
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The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in LoveDirected by Maria MaggentiOpens March 7, Chauvel and Valhalla Cinemas, SydneyReviewed by Margaret Allan This is a lovely film about first love, with all of its excitement and awkwardness that is part
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Women in a Restructuring AustraliaAnne Edwards & Susan Magarey (eds)Allen & Unwin, 1995. 319 pp., $29.95Reviewed by Melanie Sjoberg We are constantly confronted by imagery and articles in the establishment media which attempt to enforce the view that
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Women Travellers Accommodation DirectoryKaye Johnston & Andrea LofthouseA Moonraker Productions publication, 1995P.O. Box 186, Berry, NSW 253588 pp., $9.95 postage paid in AustraliaReviewed by Kath Gelber This project began when Johnston and
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Sexy Bodies: The Strange Carnalities of FeminismEdited by Elizabeth Grosz and Elspeth ProbynRoutledge, 1995. 303 pp., $36.95Reviewed by Jen Crothers Sexy Bodies is a collection of 15 essays. Each crosses a wide variety of disciplinary streams,
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McSpotlight (http://www.mcspotlight.org /) — An on-line interactive library of information and communication on everything that McDonald's don't want the public to know. Compiled by a huge team of volunteers working from 14 different countries,
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SYDNEY — The Nambundah Festival of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art and culture has begun. For a short season only, until March 17, Belvoir Street Theatre will host The 7 Stages of Grieving — a contemporary indigenous performance by
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Healing Women: A History of Leichhardt Women's Community Health CentreBy Joyce StevensFast Books, Wild & Woolley, 1995. 135 pp., $17.95Reviewed by Jane Beckmann Healing Women presents an interesting and informative account of the development of the
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Antonia's LineWritten and directed by Marleen GorrisStarring Willeke Van Ammelrooy and Els DottermansDutch, with English subtitlesAt Dendy Cinema, Sydney, on March 9, 5pmOpens across Australia from March 14Reviewed by Natasha Simons Set in the Dutch