Women's health funding restricted — again
The federal government has announced that it will cut by more than 20% rebates for ultrasound scans for women in early pregnancy. This will curb "overuse" of the service, it claims. Acting health
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On January 14, more than 100,000 people marched in Cuba to demand that the United States government immediately return six-year-old Elian Gonzalez to his father in Cuba. Despite calls by Elian's father and the Cuban government for the child's safe
Out of IrelandBy Christopher KochDoubleday, 1999, 706pp., $39.95 (hb) Review by Phil Shannon
During the Great Famine in Ireland from 1847-51, one and a half million Irish people starved to death while millions of pounds worth of food was exported,
"In the world, the tendency today is to bury Marxism and communism. The equation is simple: the collapse of the European socialist bloc is the end of the ideology and the theory
By Barry Sheppard
SAN FRANCISCO — The Battle of Seattle, the days of protest in December against the World Trade Organisation, has focused many people's minds on global inequality and "corporate capitalism" and inspired many to join the struggle
Among the Philippines' contingent at the Abortion in Focus conference in Coolum, Queensland, in November were SYLVIA ESTRADA CLAUDIO and ALEXANDRINA MARCELO from the newly formed Reproductive Rights Resource Group. Green Left Weekly's KAMALA EMANUEL
ALP-Labor Council-unions deal: a mini-Accord?
By Jenny Long
SYDNEY — The NSW government's pay offer to nearly 200,000 public sector employees (see article on this page) should be approached by workers with considerable caution. The involvement
By Jon Land
The low wages that workers receive in East Timor today are little different from the pre-referendum rate, but given the dramatic increase in food and basic commodity prices since then, East Timorese can afford to purchase only a
Mortality
"The danger of Mr Pinochet dying is permanent." — Chile's ambassador to Britain, Pablo Cabrera, on why the former dictator should never stand trial for ordering the murder of thousands of Chileans during his rule.
Remember Longford?
Networker: Picking winners
Since the deregulation of the United States telephone system in the 1980s, a saying has emerged in the information technology field: "Governments shouldn't try to pick winners". Instead, the wisdom goes, governments
By Tom Flanagan
SYDNEY — Participants at a public meeting of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras held on December 11 strongly supported the elimination of restrictions on bisexuals gaining Mardi Gras membership. The meeting, attended by 40
Port Kembla Hospital protest
WOLLONGONG — Twenty-five angry protesters confronted Colin Markham, the
MLA for Wollongong, on January 14 demanding that the accident department
at Port Kembla Hospital remain open. The closure has been
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