HOBART — The Tasmanian Greens-sponsored bill repealing sections of the Criminal Code relating to homosexual activity which the lower house passed two weeks ago will soon be debated by the Legislative Council. It is expected to be
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A Law for Women: Domestic Violence — A series of programs that highlights the limitations and problems of the legal system as it relates to women. This episode looks at the violence experienced by women and explains how women can apply for an
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Launch of Aboriginal solidarity group MELBOURNE — The new group Justice for Indigenous Australians was launched here on June 3, the fourth anniversary of the High Court's native title judgment, "Mabo Day". Speakers included Aboriginal lawyer
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CES offices to get the axe ADELAIDE — Some 18 CES offices across South Australia are being targeted for closure as a result of the upcoming federal budget cuts. According to leaked information from the Department of Employment, Education,
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A visit to death row[Brandon Astor Jones' regular column has apparently been delayed in the post. In its place, we print this account of a visit to him last December.] It is Christmas Day, and I am sitting on a small, hard
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The Students and Sustainability conference will be held in one of the environment movement's earliest home bases this year. From July 1 to 5, Lismore in northern NSW, will be hosting the national gathering of environmentalists,
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HOBART — While the success of the Tasmanian Greens' draft legislation to decriminalise the use of marijuana is doubtful, the proposed legislation has opened up a number of debates within the community,
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SYDNEY — NSW teachers will stop work for two days on June 2021 if the Department of School Education and TAFE do not agree to their demand for a 12% pay rise with no trade-offs. Teachers from government schools in the metropolitan
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Greenhouse: why Howard must set targetsThe federal Coalition government, in cahoots with mineral resources industry bosses, is running a scare campaign to convince the public that tens of thousands of jobs and Australia's economy
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Green Left Weekly was one of the beneficiaries of a recent Darwin fundraising event "Unite against Uranium" organised by several groups involved in the anti-uranium campaign in the Northern Territory, including the Environment Centre, Resistance,
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[The following is the text of a petition, addressed to the governor of the US state of Georgia and initiated by Amnesty International in Germany. It should be sent to: The Honorable Zell Miller, Governor of Georgia, 203 State Capitol, Atlanta, GA,
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What sort of city do we want? Do we want cities that are OK to live in? Or do we want cities that are machines for making profit? What sort of city do we have? Do you live near the M2? Do you live under an
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In the last two weeks of May, some of the largest national mobilisations against cuts to higher education since the 1980s free education campaign took place. Up to 27,000 people participated in rallies organised by the National
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In the past, forest reserves in NSW have mostly been created from land that no-one else wanted. Economically unviable areas or areas too steep for logging have made up most of the reserve system. The more productive areas have been
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SYDNEY — About 350 people turned out to a street party, held in the plaza near the Newtown Neighbourhood Centre on Saturday, May 25, to protest against the "yuppification" of Newtown. The event was organised by the Newtown
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Jeff Kennett's private prison industryCASTLEMAINE — With a minimum of publicity or questioning about the tendering process, the Liberal Kennett government has implemented its plans for the widespread privatisation of the
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While fashion designers are demanding size 8 models for the catwalk and Juice magazine promotes "fashion to die for", is it any surprise that eating disorders are on the increase? On June 4, the NSW Health Department released a report stating that
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ADELAIDE — The South Australian Education Network (SAEN), the National Tertiary Education and Industry Union (NTEU), the Public Service Association (PSA) and other unions have united to organise a worker and student mass meeting and
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Mad cow disease: threat of an epidemicPeter Hall showed the first signs of depression around Christmas 1994. In five months he was in a wheelchair. He died at age 20 of Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease (CJD), a relentlessly
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HOBART — Despite forcing the state government to the negotiating table on June 7, the Health and Community Services Union (HACSU) has been unable to win any government concessions on their wage claim for public sector health
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Homophobia and the royal commission? In Tom Wilson's article "NSW gays oppose witch hunt", GLW, June 5, there is a major inaccuracy and presumption of a supposed homogeneity of gay and lesbian opinion about the Royal Commission and its supposed
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The "peace process" strategy of the Republicans was based on an alliance of all Irish nationalist parties, including bourgeois forces such as the Social Democratic and Labor Party, and the Dublin government. It was aimed at forcing the British to
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On June 6, public servants and community supporters rallied and marched in cities around Australia as part of a national day of action called by the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) to protest against the Howard government's planned public
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Actively Radical TV — Sydney community television's progressive current affairs producers tackle the hard issues from the activist's point of view. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Sunday, 4pm-7pm. Access News — Melbourne community TV, Channel 31,
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It is well worth the trip to Gunnedah to visit the miners who are now 10 months into their strike at CRA's Vickery coal mine. These strikers are a living demonstration of how to build the solidarity that will be needed to defeat
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NICO WAHID is a leader of Students in Solidarity with Democracy in Indonesia (SMID), a national progressive student organisation with 10 branches across Indonesia which was established in 1991. Nico is in Australia to attend the "East Timor: Its
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PERTH — A National Union of Students (NUS) state executive meeting on June 14 voted to slash $2500 from the NUS West women's campaign budget. The meeting was attended by 20 students who opposed the move because it would mean a
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PERTH — Who is Resistance and what are they doing out west? Looking at the media coverage last year starts to give a (distorted) idea. According to Channel 9 news, Resistance was infiltrating Perth high
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Talks supposedly aimed at delivering peace in northern Ireland began on June 10. Initially supposed to be genuinely all party, the talks have been threatened by the British government's refusal to allow representatives of the
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Difficult "To convince the international community that equity requires us to be treated somewhat differently is a difficult negotiating task." — Environment minister Senator Robert Hill, looking forward to the international greenhouse
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The outcome of last week's hard cop (Peter Costello) and soft cop (John Howard) routine around the removal of sales tax exemption for state governments was another blow to working people. Not surprisingly, the federal treasurer's move early in the
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Protests follow killing of East Timorese youthEast Timorese youths and their supporters in Jakarta have organised protests following the killing of an East Timorese youth, Manuel Soares, on June 7. Soares, 25, had moved to
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The brutal military dictatorship of General Sani Abacha is stepping up its harassment of labour movement activists. The British Committee of the International Centre for Trade Union Rights (ICTUR) and the London-based Committee for a
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The African National Congress narrowed the gap between it and the National Party in the Western Cape local elections held May 29. Despite the ANC gains, the NP's continuing support from members of Cape Town's predominantly
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Armed police raided the headquarters of the Nava Sama Samaja Party (New Socialist Party) in Colombo on June 1, while the party's central committee was in session. About 30 policemen armed with automatic rifles, grenades and sub-machine guns broke
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MOSCOW — Most of Russia's population are following the election campaign with confusion and scepticism, mixed at times with curiosity and fear. The Yeltsin team has put its stake on three methods: "going to the people";
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MOSCOW — If you hadn't had a pay packet in months, would you be holding off from protest action in order to avoid embarrassing the ruling authorities before the next elections? Probably not, and workers in Russia aren't doing so
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More than 15,000 people participated in the founding of the new Freedom and Solidarity Party (ODP) in Turkey on January 22. Ertugrul Kurkcu, a founding member of this party, recently visited Australia. He was interviewed for Green Left Weekly by Arty
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New unpublished US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) data documents that US pesticide use reached an all-time high of 567 million kilograms in 1995. This is over twice as much chemicals as were used 30 years ago when Rachel Carson's Silent Spring
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Oblivious to the terrible human rights record of the Indonesian dictatorship in occupied East Timor and West Papua, in Aceh and Indonesia proper, western governments continue to sell high tech weaponry to the Indonesian military.
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Black churches in flames Over the June 10 weekend, two more black churches in the south were torched, in Greenville, Texas, bringing the total of such racist arson attacks to more than 60 since 1990. The number of instances is accelerating —
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On May 5, 1996, the people of the east German states of Brandenburg and Berlin soundly rejected by referendum a treaty to unify those two states. The treaty was defeated even though almost every major party
Culture
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Baker's DozenEnda KennyIndependently produced. PO Box 5018, Carlton 3053$30 (includes postage)Reviewed by Alex Bainbridge Enda Kenny is an Australian folk singer on the rise. Baker's Dozen, like its predecessor, 12 Songs, has been widely acclaimed in
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HOBART — Over the past year, Mecca Performance Cafe has become one of the most popular venues for alternative political and cultural performance, as well as alternative political scene and discussion. Political groups such as the
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MrayaAbdel Ali SlimaniReal World through FestivalReviewed by Jenny Long This album is an interesting introduction to the current evolution of Algerian "pop"-rai — the 1980 and '90s version of the bawdy, working-class rai originating from the
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A short story by Craig Cormick "Shit! Shit! Shit!" I'd tried to videotape Star Trek last night for my weekly fix of fantasy, and I'd accidentally taped some documentary off SBS. I was running it back and forward with the remote control, hoping that
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From: The Office for Open Communication Circulation: All Coalition Politicians, State and Federal Subject: Stamping out Political Correctness When the Howard government came to power, it was obvious to all and sundry that a tide of political
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TrainspottingDirected by Danny Boyle Starring Ewan McGregor, Ewan Bremner, Johnny Lee MillerReviewed by Natalie Woodlock If you're looking for a happy ending, or for a moralising don't-do-drugs-they're-bad-for-you film, you shouldn't see
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"... [they] set no value on anything we gave them. nor would they ever part with any thing of their own for any one article we could offer them ..." For him the sea was another sky And the sky another sea Deep as wishing wells and both As
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If You Leave Me, Can I Come Too?By Cynthia HeimelPicador, 181 pp., $14.95 (pb)Reviewed by Dave Riley It's true that the US of A isn't short of columnists. Name your preference, and there is sure to be some self-righteous wag claiming a few column
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MELBOURNE — Australia's first and only Melbourne-wide community broadcaster celebrates 20 years of broadcasting this year. Station manager Bruce Francis says, "From an idea of a small group of activists in 1974 to Australia's premier community