Earlier this year, South African track athlete Caster Semenya was vilified in the international media for allegedly having both male and female biological characteristics. People with such characteristics are known as 鈥渋ntersex鈥. 91自拍论坛 Weekly鈥檚 Farida Iqbal spoke to Gina Wilson from the Organisation Intersex International (OII) about Semenya and intersex politics.
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On a 35-degree day, community services workers in not-for-profit organisations mobilised from across Victoria to call for equal pay. The Australian Services Union, which covers the workers, estimated almost 4000 people rallied.
Samson & Delilah 鈥 When tragedy strikes in an isolated community in the central Australian desert, Samson and Delilah embark on a journey of survival. ABC1, Sunday, November 22, 8.30pm.
Casualties of War 鈥 Follows the personal journey of
The Frock-Coated Communist: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels
By Tristram Hunt
Penguin, 2009
443 pages, $59.95 (hb)
The story of the 255 Sri Lankan boat people in the Indonesian port of Merak is a saga worthy of a novel by J. K. Rowling, with greed, betrayal and magic, all in a long voyage to find nirvana.
Thirty supporters of maternity care choice staged a sit-in inside the Lismore office of local federal MP Janelle Saffin on November 9. They said the federal government must end plans to require independent midwives to have indemnity insurance.
A 鈥減ro-rape鈥 Facebook group set up by students at the University of Sydney鈥檚 elite St Paul鈥檚 College has ignited a debate about the sexist culture and behaviour in university colleges.
Before and after the invasion of Iraq, the war鈥檚 goal of privatising Iraq鈥檚 oil to the benefit of Western oil corporations was highlighted not just by the war鈥檚 opponents, but also by many of its supporters.
A British travel agent has said it will no longer offer its customers carbon offsets because they are a diversion from dealing with climate change.
The NSW state government wants to jail people as young as 13 for carrying a can of spray paint. Anyone with a spray can and no 鈥渓egitimate reason鈥 could face up to six months in prison
Many Queenslanders assume abortion is legal, since 14,000 terminations occur every year in the state.
Here in Berlin, radio and TV are celebrating the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago so intensively there鈥檚 hardly a moment for the weather report, which, unfortunately for all the planned events, turned out nasty and rainy.
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