Abortion and health
A call for a sixth International Day of Action for Women's Health on May 28 has been made by the Women's Global Network for Reproductive Rights. This year the focus is on action against illegal abortion, one of the most
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Sexual harassment: legal in Tasmania?HOBART — Women are having their rage refurbished daily by the Mercury newspaper. Every edition carries a peep show style update on the case brought against Hobart City Council by a
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ZAGREB, Croatia — The room is tiny, with one small window letting in almost no light on a gloomy winter morning. Outside, it's bitter cold, - 15° C. Stiffly frozen pieces of hand-washed clothing are hanging on
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Everyone hopes to be a winner when they buy a lottery ticket or place a bet at the TAB. That is certainly the emphasis of the slick advertising for the burgeoning legal gambling industry. But even those who fervently
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UN and Cambodia Of all the crimes against humanity committed in the name of the UN (Gulf War, Bosnia etc) by far the worst is the role of the UN in Cambodia as detailed by John Pilger in his latest film Return To Year Zero. Despite their
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Two introductionsFirst, let me introduce myself. I am a 50- year-old father of four. It is a privilege for me to be permitted to share my personal, social and political views with 91̳ readers. As an
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Since the Australian High Court delivered its judgement in Eddie Mabo & Others vs the State of Queensland nearly a year ago, opinions on the meaning of this decision have multiplied. One sort of opinion, however, has had a
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Under The Rainbow: Aquarius Revisited — The first of a three-part series. The 1973 Aquarius Festival provided a focus for many alternative and radical ideas. The dying dairy town of Nimbin in northern NSW became the centre of an alternative
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Dave Riley's article on food irradiation (GLW, March 17) issue was basically correct, though it overstated the effectiveness of food irradiation. In fact, the process kills only some of the bugs, and slows down the
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ADELAIDE — About 80 people on May 19 heard Renate Klein, an academic from Deakin University and representative of Feminist International Resistance Network of Resistance to Reproductive and Genetic Engineering, speak on Women and Reproductive
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The Rudall River National Park has been described as a "three-act nightmare" for the mining giant CRA: uranium, in a national park, and on Aboriginal land. The state Liberal government has authorised CRA to go ahead with
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Last year VICKI MASON was the WA winner of the World Vision Study Tour competition. A 16-year- old, year 11 student, she travelled to Zimbabwe and witnessed the devastating toll a three-year drought has had. On our first day we visited
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Miriam Tramer Israel's deputy minister for foreign affairs, Dr Yossi Beilin, was in Australia recently and spoke to the National Press Club in Canberra in very optimistic terms of the prospects for peace in the Middle East. He said,
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In his article on Macedonia in GLW, May 5, Michael Karadjis again fails to engage with the way various nationalisms have been constructed in the Balkans in modern times. He seems unwilling to deal with the question of
News
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SA public sector plans campaignADELAIDE — a mass meeting in the Festival Theatre on May 12 was the first major response by the unions to recent attacks from the state government. Speakers
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People's Party win 'best option'ADELAIDE — "The best case scenario" in the current Cambodian elections "would be a clear win for the Cambodian People's Party", Daryl Bullen told a Democratic Socialist forum here on
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Rally for BougainvilleMELBOURNE — The lawns of Victoria Barracks were adorned with crosses on May 21 as part of a protest against Australian military assistance to Papua New Guinea in its war against the people of
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Thousands attend AIDS vigilMELBOURNE — An estimated 10,000 people braved cold temperatures on May 15 to take part in the 10th annual candlelight vigil to mark AIDS Awareness Day. The vigil is held in memory of those
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Anti-vivisection rallyADELAIDE — A rally here on May 15 marked Australian week for animals in laboratories. The Anti-vivisection Union, the South Australian Federation of Animal Societies and members of the
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PERTH — workers at the Westrail Midland Workshop, which the state Liberal government intends to close, set up a 24-hour picket line on May 20 to prevent the movement of freight trains; 24 were stopped.
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Wollongong fights cuts in incest servicesWOLLONGONG — Two hundred people gathered in the Town Hall on May 13 to demand an increase in incest services for Wollongong and the Illawarra region. The public meeting was
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Women pursue jobs at BHPWOLLONGONG — Passing motorists sounded their horns and waved support as a spirited group of 100 women marched along the boundary of the BHP's Port kembla Steelworks on May 13, seeking
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ACTU letter on Cambodia Members of the ACTU executive and other union leaders have written to foreign minister Senator Gareth Evans urging economic aid for Cambodia and the exclusion of the Khmer Rouge from the peace process. The letter
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WA TLC dithers as attacks mountPERTH — A motion for a Trades and Labor Council-endorsed day of action involving a stop-work meeting and rally on June 17 was defeated 51 votes to 31 after a sharp debate at the TLC
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Some of his best friends "I enjoy an excellent relationship with the Aboriginal community throughout my electorate, and I am currently a patron of the Aboriginal Sports Centre at Condobolin." — Ian Armstrong, new National Party leader in NSW,
Analysis
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The rich and their apologists Business Review Weekly last week published its list of the richest 200 people in Australia, pleased to announce that their combined fortunes have increased in the past 12 months by 10.9%, to $21.3 billion.
World
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Sri Lankans vote for democracy By S. Piyasena After 16 years of extreme right-wing rule, four of them under the government of slain dictator R. Premadasa, the people of Sri Lanka have overwhelmingly voted for the restoration of
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Assistance for Cuba A group of US citizens is organising medical assistance for Cuba, despite such actions being outlawed under the Torricelli Act, passed last year. The English-language Cuban paper Granma International reported in its
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US gay activist harassed US gay rights activists say that police and corporate harassment continues of participants in the historic April 25 March on Washington for Lesbian/Gay/Bi Rights. On the day before the march, gay rights activist
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South African link in Belfast murdersAlex Lundy, ex-prisoner and Sinn Fein activist, was shot dead outside the Andersonstown house of Sinn Fein councillor Alex Maskey two weeks ago. His death bought to 13 the number
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"Newly-introduced mobile telephone numbers containing three or four 'lucky eights' are auctioned off by the local post bureaux for ... as much as ... sixteen times the official national average GNP per capita. Mobile phones themselves cost an
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Brazilian environmentalists assassinated Two prominent environmentalists in Brazil have been murdered within a few days of each other. Paulo Cesar Vinha, 37, biologist and long-time activist of the Brazilian environmental movement, was
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For increasing numbers of Chinese, Li Ning, a former Olympic gold medal gymnast and current business entrepreneur, stands as a symbol of China's new "enterprise culture". Together with other select sports stars, pop
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MOSCOW — Among many of Russia's self-proclaimed democrats, the usual rhetoric of the need to defend "democracy" against "communist revanchism" was suddenly turned off in mid-May. In its place appeared an embarrassed,
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Nicaraguan telethon for CubaMANAGUA — The Cuba solidarity campaign held Nicaragua's first telethon on May 14. Thousands of Nicaraguans responded to the broadcasts on the Sandinista Channel 4, and several FM and AM
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Namibian elections seen as warning for South AfricaThe experiences of the elections in Namibia provide important lessons for the upcoming process in South Africa, Joe Kapaanda told an Adelaide Politics in the Pub
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198 Farmers arrested in North Sumatra The Indonesian Legal Aid Institute (YLBHI) in Jakarta has demanded the release of unjustly arrested farmers in a plantation area in North Sumatra and the withdrawal of all troops stationed in the
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By Jana D.K. in Jakarta and Mitchell Hamilton in Sydney East Timorese independence leader Xanana Gusmao was sentenced to life imprisonment by an Indonesian court in Dili on May 21. The three judges found him guilty of separatism, rebellion,
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MOSCOW — Some day an accounting will be made of the economic damage which Yeltsin's reforms have dealt our country. Even now, people have begun to speak about the moral losses. The group that has suffered most is
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Strike-wave in eastern EuropeOn the eve of the settlement of a two-week strike by east Germany's engineering union, Romanian and Polish workers are walking out. Thirty thousand Romanian steelworkers began strike action on
Culture
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At the back of the fridge Liberty, Equality and Self Determination, or, Do I really have to get out of bed today? Written and performed by Daska Saleeba At the Fringe Studio, Melbourne Sat May 29, 8.30 p.m. and Sun May 30, 6.30 p.m.
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After hearing about Tanner '88 — the six-hour TV serial that inspired Tim Robbins' Bob Roberts — at the launch of Melbourne's 42nd International Film Festival (June 4-18), I went to see Bob Roberts. Now I have to see
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Women PerformingADELAIDE — Women here have been able to enjoy a variety of cultural forms, by women artists, in a relaxed, smoke-free environment for more than a year now. "Women Performing", a collective
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Against Therapy By Jeffrey Masson London: Fontana. 1990 Final Analysis By Jeffrey Masson London: Fontana. 1992 Reviewed by Chris Slee Jeffrey Masson is a former psychoanalyst who began to question the theory and practice. He was
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Orlando Directed and written by Sally Potter Based on Virginia Woolf's novel Starring Tilda Swinton, Billy Zane, John Wood, Lothaire Bluteau, Charlotte Valandrey, Quentin Crisp Reviewed by Ulrike Erhardt This is the most interesting
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Trovador Africando Stern's through Sandstock Celebration — The Best of Osibisa AIM Records through Larrikin Reviewed by Norm Dixon The development of modern African music is fascinating and complex. Indigenous African music
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Singles Written and Directed by Cameron Crowe Starring Bridget Fonda, Campbell Scott, Kyra Sedgewick and Matt Dillon Music by Paul Westerburg Reviewed by Karen Fredericks Once, in a street in inner-city Melbourne, my eye was caught