"Dear Executive: Do you want to expand your customer base with a highly affluent, well informed and extremely loyal niche market? ... How do you tailor your advertising campaign to the gay consumer without alienating your
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Ignorance in America"Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo." — Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) A newspaper photograph shows a smiling Susan Lamb, who wants a total ban placed on The Autobiography of Malcolm X (in its
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Pot 'decriminalised in Queensland by 1995'BRISBANE — Marijuana could be decriminalised in Queensland by 1995 if enough political pressure is placed upon the Goss Labor government, according to HEMP (Help End
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Frank Hardy It was great to read Frank Enright's well justified tribute to Frank Hardy in your issue of Feb 9th. I was most surprised to read that when he rang prominent people from the CPA they declined to comment, "I couldn't think of anything
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Dee Margetts Don't abandon the unemployed The government must not back away from its belated recognition that unemployment is a major problem which requires some fundamental changes to the economic system. The Labor government's
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Seinfeld Ch 10, Tuesday Absolutely Fabulous ABC-TV, Monday Reviewed by Dave Riley Each summer television turns into a graveyard. The dead walk again on the dark side of the daylight hours, risen up from the video vaults in search of
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'Things always worked this way' You've arrived on campus and you're wondering which progressive club to join. You're a feminist, concerned about the federal government's cuts to education and wondering how you'll be able to move out of home and
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SYDNEY — Ford Australia management on February 9 announced the September closure of its Homebush car assembly plant. This will destroy 430 jobs and leave NSW with no vehicle manufacturer, following the closure of Leyland in the
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[This is the text of a talk presented at Politics in the Pub in Perth on January 21. Dick Nichols is the editor of Solidarity.] I want to try to explain what I think the alternative to enterprise bargaining is and how to
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Between March 4 and March 25, members of the Public Sector Union and the seven State Public Services Federation unions will vote on whether to unite into one union, proposed to be called the Community and Public Sector Union.
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There are few arenas as publicly and hotly contested as that of human sexuality. It provokes outrage and outrageous behaviour, denunciation and obsession. On the one hand, we have come a long way. People in the industrialised
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Until after the next election "We have been down that track once before, and you can rest assured we will not be increasing taxes in our tax policy." — Shadow treasurer Alexander Downer on Liberal policy. Presumption "We oppose people
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ADELAIDE — EYA held a loud and energetic demonstration against uranium mining on February 25. It began outside the Department of Mines and Energy and ended with a march through the streets into Rundle Mall. The demonstrators chanted against the
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In a landmark victory against sex discrimination, some 700 women who took up the fight against the Big Australian, BHP, have finally won their case. An out-of-court settlement was announced at a press conference in Wollongong on
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Melbourne — A coalition of groups and individuals, Brunswick Against the Nazis (BAN), is planning a mass counter-demonstration against the extreme right-wing group National Action (NA) at the Brunswick Town Hall on March 5.
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SYDNEY — The Sydney Water Board is planning to axe 3000 jobs over the next two years. On February 17, the Water and Maritime Industry Union released a document from the board which proposed a restructuring that would involve
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Ferguson gags Bougainville addressAn invitation to Rosemarie Gillespie to speak about Australia's involvement in the war on Bougainville at a conference of regional Trades and Labour Councils, held at the Clyde Cameron
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Police intervene at 'smoke in'BRISBANE — Up to 40 police intervened in a "smoke in" at the University Of Queensland on February 23. The action was organised by the Student Union and the student club High Society.
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Resistance clubs in successful O-WeekBRISBANE — Resistance Clubs on campuses all around Brisbane launched a lively year of activity with highly successful Orientation Week stalls and meetings over the middle weeks of
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Greens launch campaign for CentralBRISBANE — Fifty people attended the February 22 launch of the Greens campaign for the Brisbane City Council elections seat of Central. The Greens are running Willy Bach, a
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MELBOURNE — A strike by Richmond Council workers is into its fourth week, and another 26 local councils in Melbourne are affected by industrial bans. The key issue in the dispute is job security. Job security is threatened
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Rally demands end to ocean dumping HOBART — Four hundred angry people filled the Parliament House lawns for a loud and vibrant march and rally on Saturday, February 26, to voice their objections to Pasminco-EZ's jarosite dumping plans.
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Qld Social Security bans liftedBRISBANE — Work bans imposed by Public Sector Union members in the Department of Social Security in Queensland were lifted on February 23. This followed a vote at workplace meetings to accept
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BRISBANE — "Green, democratic and socialist — this is the guiding theme of our campaign in the upcoming council elections", Susan Price, Demcratic Socialist candidate for Central ward in the March 26 Brisbane City Council poll,
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The Wilderness Society revealed on February 23 that the Queensland Department of Minerals and Energy is pushing for 10,000 hectares of Starcke to be gazetted as a mining reserve. The 225,000 hectare wilderness area was acquired the day before from
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The Israeli settler who massacred around 50 Palestinian worshippers on the morning of February 25 at the Ibrahimi mosque in Hebron, was a well-known leader of Kach, an extreme right-wing Zionist organisation. Wearing a
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DARWIN — Jose Gusmao, cousin of jailed East Timorese resistance leader Xanana Gusmao, has called on Prime Minister Paul Keating to support the National Council of Maubere Resistance (CNRM) peace plan. Gusmao presented a
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Telling it the PNG way The coverage of the Bougainvillean war for self-determination on Channel Nine's Sunday program, screened on February 20, was just about crude enough to compare with the black and white Pathe newsreel commentary during
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MOSCOW — A new surge of labour protests swept across Russia during the first half of February, as wage payments to millions of workers remained months in arrears. The most militant struggles were by workers in the coal
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NEW YORK — Borden Chemicals and Plastics, a limited partnership affiliated with the dairy products conglomerate, on February 18 ordered a shipment of toxic mercury waste returned from South Africa to the Louisiana plant where it was generated,
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Day of Action for Innu March 26 is the second annual International day of Action for the Innu and the Earth. The Innu, aboriginal people who live in a portion of the Quebec-Labrador peninsula known as Nitassinan, have endured low-level
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JOHANNESBURG — Prisoners will launch a campaign of peaceful mass action to win the right to vote in the April elections, it was announced here on February 22. The campaign, to be spearheaded by members of the South African
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Poll supports ending Cuba embargo According to an opinion poll released in early February, the majority of Miami's Latino population disagrees with the US embargo against Cuba. The Miami Herald published the results of the survey, for which
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JOHANNESBURG — The misnamed Freedom Alliance of right-wing parties opposed to South Africa's first non-racial democratic elections on April 26-28 is preparing to plunge this country into civil war, Tokyo Sexwale, has warned. The
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"We knew we were breaking the law. We went right out into Sussex, into the middle of nowhere. We were petrified that we were going to be caught." So a young gay man describes his first homosexual experience under the shadow of
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Hazardous waste flowing into Philippines MANILA — Hazardous waste from industrialised countries is still flowing into the Philippines despite a national law banning waste imports into the country, Greenpeace has revealed. The February 17
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There is no safe place in Serbia for men refugees refusing to do military service in Bosnia, and perhaps the danger will soon be extended to women. The governments of Serbia and of the Serbian Republic of Bosnia have made an agreement under which the
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Student's murderer goes free in Belfast A Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) officer, who admitted shooting dead Tyrone student Kevin McGovern, was acquitted of murder by the Belfast Crown Court. Judge Nicholson said RUC man Timothy Hanley had
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About Us: Socialism or Death SBS TV Wednesday, March 9, 8:30pm (8 Adelaide) Reviewed by Roberto Jorquera No-one can deny that the situation the Cuban people face is extremely difficult. But one must put the difficulty into a political
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SYDNEY — Only 12 months old, Black Power Clothing is taking off in Australia. It features T-shirts and other apparel with slogans by people such as Martin Luther King, Ralph Ellison ("I am invisible, understand, simply because
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Alternative NRG Various artists Greenpeace Records through Festival Reviewed by Nick Fredman The Alternative NRG album had its Australian launch on February 15 at Greenpeace's campaign shed in Sydney, with an energetic acoustic set by
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Fabulous fetishesMELBOURNE—On Tuesday, March 8, 3CR will broadcast its annual International Women's Day program from the Brunswick Pool. Part of this 24 hours of live radio starting will be a comic extravaganza for women
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MELBOURNE — Every Saturday morning at around 11 the Band Who knew Too Much descends on the Victoria Markets. The band consists of Dave, who plays the accordion, Andy who plays Bass, another Andy
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Beyond Capital: Marx's Political Economy of the Working Class By Michael Lebowitz MacMillan, 1992. 187 pp. $30 Reviewed by Roger Clarke This book is an attempt by an "orthodox Marxist" to confront "actually existing Marxism". Michael
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SYDNEY — "The Blue House" is an artistic installation representing a domestic interior, complete with "real" doors, walls and windows. This almost-life size piece, to be launched at Neeta City