BY NATALIE ZIRNGAST
While ACT women can now access abortion without fear of criminal prosecution, elsewhere in Australia women accessing abortion face a web of legal and medical barriers. This is the situation around the country.
New South Wales
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BY AMY MCDONELL
SYDNEY Less than a week after trade minister Mark Vaile announced that 25 delegates from around the world will be attending a World Trade Organisation (WTO) ministerial meeting in Sydney on November 14 and 15, activists have
Bastardry
Every so often there occurs an act of political bastardy so transparent that it fair takes your breath away. Such an act is the decision to exclude Greens Senator Bob Brown from the Australian delegation of 50 to the Johannesburg
BY LUISA ARA & MARCUS FELSMAN
SYDNEY In a clear indication that students are beginning to organise against further privatisation of higher education, 500 students marched through Sydney's streets in protest against the higher education review
BY ROB GRAHAM
ADELAIDE Prime Minister John Howard received a less than friendly welcome when he came to the city on August 23. Hundreds took the opportunity to condemn his government's policies at two separate events.
Howard was first
BY LEE SUSTAR
US treasury secretary Paul O'Neill caused a stir and a financial panic when he declared that any money loaned to Brazil by the International Monetary Fund would end up in "Swiss bank accounts". He should have looked a
BY KIM BULLIMORE
Despite claims by the Western media that women are now free in
Afghanistan, women and organisations that support women's rights are still
being targeted by the Northern Alliance-dominated, US-backed government
in Kabul.
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BY RAJ PATEL
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) recently chartered a ship the Liberty Star to deliver 36,000 tonnes of grain to an estimated 13 million starving people in southern Africa.
The Malawian
BY PETER ROBSON
NEWCASTLE "Today, I want to tell you what it is like to be a refugee in Australia. I want to tell you what it is like to flee war and repression and only find more oppression. I am no longer in a detention centre, but now it
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