Karen Fredericks

  • Reclaim the Night even bigger this year

    Reclaim the Night marches, against protesting violence against women, gathered more support than ever around the country this year. 91̳ Weekly spoke to women who attended marches in just some of the many centres in

  • Our cities need better public transport

    Arthur Dent awoke one morning to discover that his house was about to be demolished to make way for a freeway, and his day got worse from there. By mid-morning, clad only his pyjamas and cowering in the hold of an alien

  • Community radio from space

    "We don't want to encourage pale imitations of the ABC or commercial radio broadcasters. We want to preserve the spirit of community radio ... the unfiltered voices of real people telling their own stories." This,

  • PLO interview: Middle East treaty

    On September 10, the day Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organisation reached their historic "Gaza-Jericho first" accord, 91̳ Weekly spoke to the PLO's representative in Australia, Ali Kazak, about what the PLO

  • Animal Lib billboards censorsed

    Animal Lib billboards censorsedSYDNEY — Animal Liberation posters publicising the plight of battery hens and factory pigs have been removed from Sydney railway stations by the advertising company paid to place them

  • National student action against fees

    Students across Australia participated in a National Day of Action called by the National Union of Students (NUS) on August 10 to protest the increases in tertiary education charges foreshadowed for the upcoming federal

  • By Karen Fredericks

    Last week in the South Australian Supreme Court Justice Derek Bollen, known for his "rougher than usual handling" judgment in a rape in marriage case last year, held that a survivor of domestic violence who killed her

  • War continues on Bouganville

    The existence of an armed conflict in Bougainville has been raised formally for the first time in the South Apcific Forum at the forum's 24th summit meeting which ended on Nauru last week. During the summit New Zealand

  • Anti-gay violence in NSW schools

    Anti-gay violence in NSW schoolsSYDNEY — The NSW Gay and Lesbian Teachers and Students Association (GaLTaS) has welcomed the introduction of state legislation prohibiting vilification of homosexuals, but says that

  • Wildlife smuggling book defeats 'ban'

    SYDNEY — An attempt by the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) to prevent distribution of a book on wildlife smuggling has been defeated. The book details involvement of NPWS officers in the illegal

  • The spirit of Stonewall

    The night of June 27, 1969, began as a sad one for drag performers and their fans. At the Stonewall Inn in New York's Greenwich Village, many a toast was drunk to mark the death that day of the glamorous and tragic gay

  • Port Macquarie residents challenge hospital secrecy

    Port Macquarie residents challenge hospital secrecySYDNEY — The Hastings Hospital Action Group (HHAG) has lodged an appeal under the NSW Freedom of Information Act against the refusal by the NSW Department of Health