By Jill Hickson
"Exciting and unique", is how Kathy Fairfax describes the 1995 Work/Study Brigade to Nicaragua. Fairfax is helping organise the brigade, which will spend a month in Latin America in June-July 1995.
The trip is being
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Melanesian women speak on family planning
The Australian Council for Overseas Aid (ACFOA) is touring two women, Geraldine Maibani-Michie from Papua New Guinea and Junilyn Pikacha from the Solomon Islands, to provide a first-hand account of
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — A new and alarming strain has appeared in the rhetoric, and to some degree in the actions, of the Yeltsin regime. The goals set out in the draft for the 1995 state budget, together with extensive changes in the
ADELAIDE — Aboriginal groups have demanded the sacking of the Aboriginal affairs minister, Michael Armitage, over his use of the words "nigger in the wood pile" in Parliament on November 22. Premier Dean Brown met with 14 representatives of
Crossing the Party Line: Memoirs of Bernie Taft
By Bernie Taft
Scribe Publications, 1994. 352 pp., $26.95 (pb)Reviewed by Phil Shannon
I remember one of the more humorous contributions to the "Prospects Discussion" in the Communist Party of
Despite the threat of punitive action against striking oil transport workers and union officials, the Transport Workers Union (TWU) is pressing ahead with its campaign for a 15% pay increase across the transport industry. Oil industry drivers decided
Illusions
By Afrodity Giannakis
Neon lights
selling lies
of excitement
and ultimate satisfaction.
Consumption
of synthetic food
flamboyant dresses
and the system's rotten relationships
artfully wrapped
in flashy screens
By Helen Todd
A boy is dead. A court finds an army general responsible. He is ordered to pay compensatory and punitive damages.
The boy, Kamal Bamadhaj, a 20-year-old student, is my son. I have waited three years and gone half way around
By Tony Hastings
"We were all like brothers and sisters, we're all in it together. We thought we might all get arrested — and we did!", laughs Russel, a Skyrail blockader.
The blockade hopes to stop Skyrail, a privately owned cable-car
Women are not anti-union
By Melanie Sjoberg
ADELAIDE — Two important new documents, Raising Our Voices: Activism Amongst Women and Men in South Australian Unions, by Barbara Pocock, and its companion Strength in Numbers: Increasing