Gay businesses push boycott campaign
By Kath Gelber
The struggle to repeal Tasmania's anti-gay laws has taken on a new edge with the launch of a boycott campaign by gay businesses around Australia and internationally. The campaign aims to
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Queer conference stresses activism
By Ana Kailis
BRISBANE — Two hundred students from around the country attended the very successful Queer Collaborations Conference here from July 2-9.
The conference opened with a rally at Albert
Wondering
By Brandon Astor Jones
The GLW article entitled "Whose magazines?" (June 1) caught my eye. Kath Gelber, author of the "... and ain't i a woman?" column made some poignant comments on these magazines directed at women.
Some of
A moving portrayal of refugees
By Tamara Desiatov and Gillian Hector
PERTH — Refugee Week, sponsored by Austcare and the Refugee Council of Australia, ended with the multi-media production In Search of Peace at the Artists Club on June
Tommy Emmanuel live
By Peter Riedlinger
GYMPIE — Joseph Furphy once said of his great novel Such is Life that it had "temper democratic, bias offensively Australian". In the case of the Tommy Emmanuel concert here on June 16, I would
By Lawrence Kilimwiko
DAR ES SALAAM — Nine years into the structural adjustment program (SAP), Tanzania's workers, social workers and human rights activists are saying the program disregards basic human rights.
They point out that
By Penny Saunders
QUITO — Indigenous people throughout Ecuador have been engaged in protests against a new agricultural law which was approved by the national congress and President Sixto Duran Ballen at the beginning of June.
Protests
SYDNEY — Supporters of the East Timorese struggle "closed down" the Indonesian consulate here in an early morning action on July 7. Chains and locks were attached to the gates and doors, and posters calling for the liberation of East Timor and
Printers beat Murdoch
By Jenny Long
SYDNEY — Printing workers at Rupert Murdoch's News Limited voted to return to work on July 17 after defeating company attempts to impose significant and retrograde changes in working conditions in a new
Opposition to Grand Prix grows
By Bronwen Beechey
MELBOURNE — Despite concerted government and media attempts to discredit the Save Albert Park campaign, thousands attended a second rally to protest plans to hold the Grand Prix at the
South — An international magazine program in seven parts, including filmmakers from the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia. The first episode assesses the mood on student campuses in China after the tragedy of Tienanmen Square, and the economic situation
United Left makes gains in Spain
By Jaime Pastor
MADRID — The United Left (UL), based on the former Communist Party but which includes a wide spectrum of the left, scored a major success in the June 12 European elections with 13.4% of the
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