ADELAIDE — More than 100 information technology workers, members of the Public Service Association, struck for one day on June 30 to protest against the proposed privatisation of the state government's computer networks. Computer giants IBM and EDS
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Introducing Asian Studies — The Population Question in China — Faced with the largest population in the world, the Chinese government implemented drastic and controversial control measures, including a policy of one child per family. ABC Radio
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World financial market are in turmoil: interest rates soaring, stock markets plunging and the US dollar in free fall against the yen and the mark. On June 27, the Australian stock market lost $10 billion, its
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For three years, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been reassessing the toxicity of dioxin and other dioxin-like chemicals, including dibenzofurans and some PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls). PCBs are
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Marxism certainly claims to be scientific, but it is not only science. Marxists accept "the categoric imperative to overthrow all relations in which man [humanity] is a debased, enslaved, abandoned, despicable essence" (Karl
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Is there a connection between sexism and racism? What role, if any, should the women's movement play in the fight against racism? Questions such as these will be among the issues taken up at the National Organisation of Women Students Australia
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Wednesday Special: The Gadfly — This dramatised documentary is the story of Francis James, one of the most colourful and mysterious figures in Australia's recent history: air ace, journalist, publisher, agitator (an early and vocal opponent of the
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Sexual harassment: not onSexual harassment on the job came under more public scrutiny last week in the wake of the surprise resignation of NSW police minister Terry Griffiths. It is alleged he sexually harassed his staff.
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Steve Rogers and June McKay in their article "Jobs at Risk in DEET Proposal" (91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly, June 15) miss the point completely. Their analysis is unworthy of inclusion in the pages of a paper that attempts to play a
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ADELAIDE — The state Liberal cabinet has approved in principle a plan for businesses to employ prisoners. The proposal, prepared by the Department of Correctional Services, would allow companies to employ inmates as factory workers in remote
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It's been three and a half years since 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly hit the streets during the anti-Gulf War protest movement. Our first issue demanded: "Stop the War!". By the third, the war had ended, but GLW didn't stop its coverage of the war's aftermath.
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Doug Lorimer ("Has history disproved Marxism?", GLW #146) objects to my definition of science (GLW #145). He offers one which could arguably include such subjects as astrology, phrenology etc. If you use such a weak definition
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Humans and animals Laura Bahnisch (Write on, #149) accuses Dave Riley ("Becoming Human", GLW #147) of speciesism for pointing to the fundamental distinction between human nature and animal nature. Whilst it is often commonplace to compare
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The life of Riley: When George lit up George Orwell once told me: "One sometimes gets the impression that the word 'socialism' draws towards it, with magnetic force, every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex maniac, Quaker, 'nature
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A breakthrough in solar energy technology at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) means that clean energy from the sun can now be cost-competitive with energy produced by the combustion of fossil fuels. This breakthrough,
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To listen to the Business Council of Australia (BCA), one could be forgiven for thinking that the greenhouse effect is just a load of hot air. At the high profile summit meeting on June 16 between representatives from
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Next issue Because many of the people who help to produce and distribute 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ will be busy attending the Resistance conference next weekend, we are skipping the July 9 issue of the paper. Issue number 151 will be dated July 16.
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BRISBANE — The first Lesbian and Gay Pride Festival was held here in June 1990 after more than my lifetime of Bjelke-Petersen rule. Pride started because people were angry and impatient for change: sex between men was still
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Lisa Macdonalds's response (GLW #146) to the argument that postmodernism can be a useful critical tool illustrates the pervasiveness of straitjacket "either/or" thinking in our culture. She reads the argument as a polemic, of the
News
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Refinery workers fight for jobsWorkers at Caltex's Kurnell refinery voted on June 30 to take industrial action against the company if it moves against the remaining laboratory workers at the plant, members of the Australian
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CANBERRA — In a period of international trade agreements, Australian workers can't ignore international issues and working conditions, Greens Senator Dee Margetts told a Canberra Public Sector Union dinner on June 22. The dinner
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PERTH — WA's forest blockade began here on July 2 with several hundred people attending a two-day festival near Pemberton, about 400 km south of here. The festival included talks and workshops on forest-related issues
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Kerrupjmara protest against neglectMELBOURNE — During the early hours of June 28, 40 members of the Kerrupjmara Aboriginal community set up a tent embassy on the main street of Portland. Racism and neglect have driven them
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Not true, unfortunately "Money market 'gone to hell'" — headline in Sunday Telegraph, June 26. Forward planning "The Royal Australian Navy is spending $70 million to buy and convert two American warships into helicopter carriers so
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Lesbians and gays rally in BrisbaneBRISBANE — 1500 people rallied on July 2 to support lesbian and gay rights. The rally, which commemorates the 25th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, was followed by a
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Federal government to fund student organisationsMELBOURNE — The federal government brought legislation before parliament on June 30 to override the "voluntary student unionism" (VSU) legislation enacted by the
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She can wear the pantsPERTH — The trivial farce over women workers wearing trousers in the WA parliament ended on June 30 when the speakers of both the Legislative Assembly and Council indicated that women could now
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ADELAIDE — A new student group is campaigning to stop the Brown government from implementing cuts to education recommended in the recent audit report. Secondary Students Against Cuts, a Resistance-initiated campaign, was launched at a teachers' protest rally in May.
Analysis
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Eroding democracy Senator Nick Bolkus, not content with denying basic human rights and dignity to refugees, nor with insulting Australia's Macedonian community, is now bent on devaluing the democratic rights of Australia's elected
World
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Strikes increase Industrial action by black workers has increased dramatically in the first half of the year. Compared to the same period in 1993, the number of work days lost through strikes has almost doubled. Most strikes occurred in the
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Two East Timorese were sentenced to prison for three years on June 27 for raising the flag of Fretilin in Dili on July 17 of last year. The peaceful protest marked the date that Suharto signed a bill declaring East Timor part of
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JOHANNESBURG — The Rwandan Patriotic Front's assistant director of international relations for Asia and Africa, Dr Ben Rugangazi, firmly rejected the international media's "simplistic" claims that the RPF represents the Tutsi
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If a presidential election were held in Russia in the near future, the winner would very likely be a populist candidate pledging strong action against corruption and crime; opposing privatisation and promising a
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The Campaign to Oppose the Return of the Khmer Rouge (CORKR) in the United States has called on the US government to suspend military aid and training projects to Thailand. Sections of the Thai military are actively involved in supporting and arming
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Strong campaign defends Indonesian mediaGiving evidence to a parliamentary committee in Jakarta on June 29, information minister Harmoko showed the first signs of a possible weakening in the regime's resolve over the banning of
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JOHANNESBURG — Hopes that the African National Congress-dominated government of national unity (GNU) will rapidly move to redistribute wealth and economic power have begun to fade with the presentation of its first budget in Cape
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Filipinos oppose new taxTwo thousand people protested outside the Malacanang Palace in Manila on June 28 over the introduction of a new value-added tax (VAT). Organised by a coalition called KOMVAT, the action was part of a
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JOHANNESBURG — A Namibian court has found that the 1989 assassination of SWAPO activist Anton Lubowski was the work of a South African Defence Force death squad. The verdict confirms the suspicions of many South Africans and
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MOSCOW — Responding to pleas from terrified business people and urgent demands from Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, Russian President Boris Yeltsin on June 14 issued a decree permitting tough action against Russia's vast and
Culture
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The Taming of the Shrew By William Shakespeare Bell Shakespeare Company Directed by John Bell Footbridge Theatre, Sydney, to July 30 Reviewed by Peter Boyle Bell Shakespeare Company is touring Australia with a version of The Taming of
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New Country Sister Moon Reviewed by Philippa Stanford Sister Moon are surely one of the most exciting musical experiences to come out of Brisbane. With a diverse range of talents, Sister Moon bring new meaning to the term a cappella.
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Southern Sky, Western Oval: A Year Inside League Football By Martin Flanagan McPhee Gribble, 1994. 191 pp., $14.95 (pb) Reviewed by Phil Shannon Footscray, in the western suburbs of Melbourne, has the highest unemployment rate (24%) in
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To the Ends of the Earth — The Hunt for the Jackal SBS Television Sunday, July 17, 9.30pm (9 Adelaide) Reviewed by Barry Healy Since the development of small-sized weapons of mass destruction, there have been many "terrorism" spates.
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Public cinema for Newtown SYDNEY — The third in a series of screenings to highlight the need for a public cinema in the inner suburb of Newtown takes place when the community newspaper Newtown Bridge presents Riding the Gale, a poignant
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Community development manual Resource Manual for Facilitators in Community Development By Jeremy McArdle Reviewed by Chris Slee This loose-leaf manual is intended to help community groups gain the skills they need to organise
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Xanana Gusmao trophy A soccer tournament in Bourges, France, on June 11-12 featured a "Xanana Gusmao Challenge". Gusmao is the jailed leader of Fretilin, the East Timor resistance. The trophy, a statue featuring a
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Australia's Spies and Their Secrets ASIO worked with unions and bosses In Australia's Spies and Their Secrets, author David McKnight uncovers a shadowy hand behind the events which shaped Australian politics from the end of the second world
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Theatre, music, song and humour have been used to raise political consciousness in countries where dictatorships censor most forms of political expression. In India, a society in which women are still heavily subordinated
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From Soweto to PerthPERTH — A Cultural Dissent program for youth, "From Soweto to Perth", was held here on June 18 to draw the international links in struggles by young people for freedom and justice. Eighteen