By Zoe Horvath
[This article is a reply to Angela Matheson's "and ain't i a woman" column in the January 27 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly.]
Matheson's position seems to be that the leaders have been co-opted. In their heady rise to power, women in
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No GST on Tomatoes! say Tasmanians
By Sean Pybus and Natasha Simons
HOBART — When Liberal leader John Hewson visited Salamanca Markets on Saturday, February 20, he didn't expect to be pelted with fruit and vegetables.
Hewson was
By Norrian Rundle
MELBOURNE — Secondary school teachers from the Victorian Secondary Teachers Association and the Federated Teachers Union of Victoria on February 10 took part in the first "illegal" 24-hour stop-work under the Kennett
Left unions publish new paper
By Peter Boyle
MELBOURNE — A number of Victorian unions under left-wing leadership and some community groups have produced the first issue of a new monthly newspaper called FrontLine. Their aim is to "help
Alternative media setbacks
The publishers of Modern Times, which ceased publication last September, have written to subscribers confirming the demise of the magazine.
First published as Australian Society, the magazine had been in
By Alex Cooper and Peter Boyle
MELBOURNE — Community action groups are trying to keep up the momentum of the campaign against the Kennett government through numerous demonstrations and protest meetings, but the government is beginning to
Bob-bob-bobbin' along
Bob Roberts (M)
Written and directed by Tim Robbins
Reviewed by Mario Giorgetti
Meeting halls across Pennsylvania ring to the cheering and the clapping and the stamping that characterises the hysteria of
Democracy — 1
"Regardless of who wins on March 13, the pace of economic and social change is unlikely to slow." — Introduction to a Time article on the federal elections.
Democracy — 2
"The real issue of the election ... is
By Pip Hinman
While the media have made much of federal Labor's child-care cash rebate proposal, child-care workers are not as eager to embrace what they regard as anything but a fairer system.
"To start with, the 30% rebate is not
Woodchip protest at Bunbury
By Ingvar Anda
BUNBURY, W.A. — Thirty protesters were arrested at the Bunbury woodchip export facility here on Sunday, February 14. The arrests took place at the base of the massive pile of woodchips which
Green Party candidates Murray Matson (Kingsford Smith) and Mark Berriman (Sydney) sorted rubbish or "non-recovered material" at Eastgarden shopping centre on February 18 to call attention to the need for greater recycling. According to Matson, a
By Max Lane
Long-simmering tensions between President Suharto and the Indonesian armed forces (ABRI) high command have been brought into the open.
On February 16, the military seemingly laid down the gauntlet to the president a
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