Choices: Soul Mothers — Women facing parenthood alone talk about support networks, custodial issues and money. Sole mothers are often disadvantaged, whether working or on the pension. Choices will be relayed to 28 community radio stations around
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Not the church, not the state In Latin America, debate is raging over reproductive rights. According to an article titled "The Gender Wars" in the January-February issue of NACLA: Report on the Americas, the debate has participants from widely
By Seetal Dodd MELBOURNE — Hospital services in the northern region, covering the Austin, Repatriation, Fairfield, PANCH, and Bundoora hospitals, are entering their third week of industrial action. Strong bans have been in place on all hospital
Election Aftermath: Woe Is Me Let us face facts. Coffee has shattered our nerves; takeaways make us slaves to indigestion; Joseph Stalin has made us shrink from the name of socialism, and has destroyed, in the more refined part of the community (of
By Natalie Woodlock HOBART — Students at Sorell High School have come under criticism from John Bednall, a columnist for the Mercury, and others for defying a rule which bans male and female students from holding hands or playing sport together
By Jennifer Thompson The immediate costs of the four suicide bombings carried out in the last fortnight by groups in the armed wing of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) are plain to see. While the Israeli political establishment has
By Anthony Benbow and Justin Randell PERTH — A mass meeting of bus drivers on March 7 demanded the state Liberal government suspend its "competitive tendering" process or face further industrial action. The drivers, members of the Public Transport
Jabiluka: the next uranium mine? By Paul Roguszka DARWIN — The Jabiluka uranium deposit is situated about 22 km north of the Ranger mine, adjacent to the Magela Creek in the northern part of Kakadu National Park, from which it is excised. The
NEWCASTLE — The notion that feminism is irrelevant in the '90s is being challenged on Newcastle University. After a period of several years without a prominent feminist presence on campus, a group of inspired women who recognise that the fight for
By Bill Mason BRISBANE - Several hundred Aborigines and supporters rallied in the Ipswich Mall on March 7 to condemn the newly elected independent MP for Oxley Pauline Hanson for racism during her successful election campaign in the Ipswich-based
By Lisa Macdonald The right-wing National Association of Forest Industries (NAFI) is sponsoring an end of the month visit to Australia by former Greenpeace campaigner Patrick Moore. Since 1991, Moore has been working for the British Columbia Forests
By Nicolle Berell SYDNEY — On March 7, NSW teachers struck in support of their demand for a 12% pay rise with no productivity trade-offs. More than 2500 teachers packed Town Hall in one of several strike meetings that took place across the state to
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