By Kirsty Chestnutt
Ahhhh, the very word conjures up an array of images — Madonna, married men who fuck men in public toilets on the weekend, luscious threesomes, daggy middle-aged former straights who sit around in support meetings.
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By Jennifer Leadbeater
When I think of capital punishment, it makes me angry. The emotion is so overwhelming that it is hard to explain, except using childlike simplicity such as "It's not nice" and "It's mean and unfair".
It
Links: International Journal of Socialist Renewal
Issue Number 5
Reviewed by Kath Gelber
Positive assessments of prospects for Cuba are sometimes hard to find, even in progressive publications. The US embargo, combined with the
Workers win settlement at Steel-Line Doors
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — Seventeen Spanish-speaking workers at the Steel-Line Doors plant here have won a record settlement totalling a reported $120,000, after a hearing presided
By Richard Giles
One of the great shifts in attitude in this decade has come about in the promotion of unleaded fuel (ULP) to replace the dreaded leaded fuel. The issue of petrol and what to do about it has been the bane of environmentally
Health workers win pay rise
By Kim Linden
MELBOURNE — Victorian health workers have won a pay rise after two weeks of industrial action. The deal includes a 5% wage rise backdated to July 1, a further 1% to be paid from
By Norm Dixon
SYDNEY — David Alley is a quietly spoken church minister from a parish just outside Auckland in New Zealand. To look at him, you would never guess that he could ever pose a threat to the "national security" of any country.
Mining memorial unveiled
By Liam Mitchell
WOLLONGONG — A memorial to pay tribute to the courage, struggle and sacrifice by coalminers in the Illawarra region was unveiled by the NSW Premier Bob Carr on July 28, outside the
Stay of execution for Mumia Abu-Jamal
"I think it is absolutely clear that without the international support coming from all quarters — trade unionists, civil libertarians, authors, writers and students — it would not have been
By Craig Cormick
@column = Based on highly reliable international contacts, leaked documents and horoscopes from several TV magazines, Nostradamus' Media Watch presents a highly accurate forecast of political events across the globe.
The following messages from the French peace movement and the peak trade union body, the Confederation Generale du Travail (CGT), were given to Australian participants at the commemorations to mark the 50th anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki
By Margaret Gleeson
ADELAIDE — In what the Advertiser hailed as a "radical blueprint for local government reform" the long-awaited report of the ministerial advisory group (MAG) on local government reform was released on July 26.
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