Sarah Stephen

  • 43 hours waiting for deportation

    PERTH — You'd be forgiven for not noticing the Perth Airport Immigration Detention Centre. Nestled back from the road at the entrance to the domestic terminal, it was built to house only a few dozen detainees. On March 15 and

  • Should men participate in women's rights marches?

    BY VIRGINIA BROWN & SARAH STEPHEN PERTH — This year's International Women's Day march here on March 10 was a huge success, with larger numbers marching with more energy and enthusiasm than for many years. There was also an unusually large number

  • Globalisation conference seeks answers

    BY ROBERTO JORQUERA & SARAH STEPHEN PERTH — Around 150 people attended the "Globalisation: trash or treasure" conference at Curtin university on November 25. The one day conference was initiated by the Stop MAI [Multilateral Agreement on

  • Radical alliance to run in WA election

    PERTH — Radical left groups and activists have joined together to run in the next Western Australia state election, due early in 2001. Democratic Socialist candidates Anthony Benbow (Fremantle) and Roberto Jorquera (Perth),

  • The CPSU and welfare reform

    The McClure report is the recently released federal government inquiry into welfare "reform". The report canvasses shifting functions undertaken by Centrelink to private or non-profit providers. It also suggests further tightening

  • International Women's Day: unity does matter

    International Women's Day: unity does matterPERTH — In Perth this year there will be two International Women's Day rallies on March 11. One is the annual march and rally organised by the IWD Collective, the other is a

  • Advance Australia — not

    Advance Australia — notFederal minister Philip Ruddock has announced that the government has rewritten the national anthem, "Advance Australia Fair", to reflect the threats to Australians' national identity. We must all learn

  • Ruddock challenged on immigration policy

    Ruddock challenged on immigration policyPERTH — Federal minister for immigration Philip Ruddock presented the closing speech to a two-day conference on immigration here on December 1. Speaking at the University of WA, Ruddock

  • WA abortion access one year on

    WA abortion access one year onPERTH — On May 26 one year ago, the Criminal Code Amendment (Abortion) Act took effect in Western Australia. It ended six months of campaigning by the abortion rights movement to change WA laws

  • WA police racism

    PERTH — Five people are now facing trial for the murder of 14-year-old Aboriginal boy Cleon Jackman after his battered body was found on May 22. Jackman is believed to have been beaten and strangled to death after he was

  • Never again: women's experiences before the '70s

    Never again: women's experiences before the '70sPERTH — Denise White was the honorary secretary of the WA Association for the Legal Right to Abortion during the 1970s and early '80s and a founder of the Abortion Information