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Is identity enough?

Kath Gelber "Identity" in the gay and lesbian community means many different things. It includes the personal identification of same sex desire, a process of realisation and recognition of a desire which challenges dominant sexual norms.

Nurses' union breaks silence on mercury hazard

Nurses' union breaks silence on mercury hazard By Paul Jones The June issue of the Australian Nursing Federation's journal, the Australian Nursing Journal, (carries a full page article by Dianne Lacroix titled "The danger of mercury

Queer Collaborations 1995

By Kim Linden MELBOURNE The Queer Collaborations conference — organised by and for lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgenderists and their supporters — will be held here July 10-14. Cameron Cutts, a member of the conference organising

The French government's big secret

Moruroa — The Big Secret The Cutting Edge SBS, Wednesday, July 5, 8.30pm (8 Adelaide) Reviewed by Jennifer Thompson This documentary, made in 1993 by a group of French, Tahitian and Australian film makers, on the shelf until now, has

Airport 'consultations' cause uproar

Airport 'consultations' cause uproar By Cameron Parker SYDNEY — Called by the federal government's hastily established Sydney Airport Community Consultative Committee (SACCC), a series of highly charged public meetings in Newtown, Hunters

Socialists call for 'people before profit'

Socialists call for 'people before profit' By Bill Mason BRISBANE — The Democratic Socialist candidate for the seat of Brisbane Central, Zanny Begg, called for the creation of "a new kind of government based on putting the interests of

Looking out: A brave little boy

A brave little boy By Brandon Astor Jones "If you love your children, if you love your country, if you love the God of love, clear your hands from slaves, burden not your children or country with them." — Richard Allen (1760-1831), former

Burmese students continue the fight for democracy

By Jon Lamb Students in Burma have played a major role in the fight for human rights and democracy throughout the decades of turmoil that have racked Burmese politics. Students led the waves of anti-government protests which swept across Burma

Darwin anti-nuclear campaign

Darwin anti-nuclear campaign By Tom Flanagan DARWIN — An information stall in Darwin's Raintree Park on July 1 collected hundreds of signatures on petitions opposing nuclear testing. This was the first of a series of public actions in

Law and order, environment feature in Queensland election

By Bill Mason BRISBANE — Law and order and the environment are becoming the main battlegrounds over which the Queensland state election on July 15 is being fought. Labor and the National-Liberal Coalition are competing over who has the

Haiti election fiasco

Haiti election fiasco The US-sponsored local and parliamentary elections that took place in Haiti on June 25 were a fiasco. Polling booths failed to open, voters' names were not on the electoral register, official candidates did not appear on

For a nuclear-free and independent Pacific

SUSANNA OUNEI-SMALL is assistant director (decolonisation) of the Suva-based Pacific Concerns Resource Centre, which serves as the secretariat of the Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific movement. She is also an activist in the Kanaky (New Caledonia)