Arabunna walkers reach Broken Hill
BY NERISSA ELI
Arabunna elder Kevin Buzzacott left his home at Lake Eyre South on June 10 to begin walking to Sydney. He is being joined by local, international and indigenous supporters. His walk is to
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A domestic wage?
In 1878, the Association for the Advancement of Women wrote to the United States Congress to protest that the Census Bureau did not measure women's non-market (unpaid) work. Housework was not considered "productive", yet
BY SEAN HEALY
SYDNEY — Having already enunciated the doctrine of "trade uber alles", the world's business and political leaders are preparing for a new "assault on the commons" and the "privatisation of everything", Canadian activist and author
John Howard, the 'miniature man'
BY PETER JOHNSTON
DARWIN — Prime Minister John Howard's million dollar centenary of federation trip to London stood in contrast to his government's mean-spirited treatment of members of the stolen generations of
With this new issue of 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly, the first since the GST came into effect on July 1, we have had to increase the cover price from $2 to $2.20.
Through the GST the government will take one-11th of GLW's sales income. As a not-for-profit
Sunday, June 4 — We are writing to you from Burj el-Barajneh Refugee Camp in Beirut where the withdrawal of Israel's soldiers from southern Lebanon has meant a phenomena unprecedented. For the first time in 52 years, the Palestinian refugees can
Clouds gather over Bondi stadium
BY MARINA CARMAN
SYDNEY — "Gladiator winds may take out the Bondi Colosseum before construction is even finished", Waverley City indigenous councillor and Bondi Olympic Watch member Dominic Kanak has claimed.
Judith Wright, 1915-2000
BY JIM MCILROY
Judith Wright, one of Australia's greatest poets and a life-long fighter for Aboriginal rights and environmental and social justice, died on June 25 in Canberra Hospital after a long illness. Her death
Write on: Letters to the editor
Think again, Sidoti
About your report [GLW #410] by Sean Healy of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commissioner Chris Sidoti's offer to train Burma's SPDC officials (military officers) in human rights law,
Why Labor won't abolish Howard's GST
BY SUE BOLAND
Politicians, backed by mainstream journalists, like to create the impression that certain aspects of the economy work in an almost supernatural way such that governments are powerless to affect
Slash Australia's war spending!
The release of the federal government's public discussion paper (or "green paper"), "Defence Review 2000 — Our Future Defence Force", and the six-week public "consultation" that kicks off in mid-July, is being
CUBA: Elian's homecoming: when the people heard the news
HAVANA, June 30 — My phone rang a few minutes after noon. It was my neighbour. "The Supreme Court ruled that Elian can come home!", she blurted out. The ordeal would soon be over. Picked
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