At the Network of Women Students Australia conference in July, GEMMA PINNEL, the National Union of Students' national women's officer, and SARAH LANTZ, research officer at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, spoke about the role of women's
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MYINT THU and YE WIN are both in the 30-member central committee of the All Burma Student Democratic Front, formed after the students led a million-strong uprising nine years ago. Like other democratic activists, ABSDF members had to flee the
GREG OGLE reports on the Hiroshima and Nagasaki peace conferences and rallies in Japan which he attended earlier this month as a representative of the Australian Peace Committee. Justice will only be done for the Hibakusha — the survivors of the US
Campaign Against Racism launched
By Angela Walker
ADELAIDE — Anti-racist activists here launched a new committee on August 13 to fight racism and challenge One Nation's and the Liberal government's racist policies. Campaign Against Racism
Actively Radical TV — Sydney community television's progressive current affairs producers tackle the hard issues from the activist's point of view. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Thursday, 10pm and Saturday, 7pm.
Access News — Melbourne
By Kath Gelber
As machinations continue over the development of guidelines for the new Non-Violent Erotica (NVE) category for film and video, public access to a range of erotic films and videos looks set to be drastically reduced. Following its
By Sarah Stephen
One hundred years ago, women who wanted to educate themselves were sneered at and called "blue stockings". This label accused them of masquerading as men — at the time, male intellectuals were depicted as wearing blue
Greens, socialists contest NT election
In the Northern Territory elections on August 30, one Democratic Socialist and two Greens candidates will challenge the Country-Liberal Party's anti-native title and Labor's "law and order" scare campaigns.
By Sylvia Hale
SYDNEY — Marrickville Council at its August meeting unanimously declined to ban Pauline Hanson's One Nation party from using council facilities. Ashfield Council had, only weeks before, voted unanimously to support such a ban.
Ian Roberts: Finding OutBy Paul FreemanRandom House, 1997, 325 pp.,$29.95 (hb) Review by Phil Shannon
"AIDS will finish you in hell. SODOMIST. An arsehole bandit. You are pure filth and will die SOON!". Thus ran one of the letters to Ian Roberts
A Celebration of Voices
Hundreds gather for a concert in the cityto celebrate treeswhile others gather in the forest, to protest destruction.As the chainsaws advancewe form a human chain around each treesing our songs, chant for
Chairman Wallop and Chairman Tim
The federal government last week provided, not one, but two ministers to entertain the guests at a conference in Canberra dedicated to preventing any meaningful action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The
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