Women in Politics conference
The Women in Politics conference in Adelaide over the past week has been hailed by the establishment press as "the revival of the women's movement". But seeing these women sipping champagne in cocktail lounges
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BRISBANE — Queensland hospitals are in a state of turmoil, with the state government refusing to release funds to alleviate chronic under-staffing. Nurses at the Royal Brisbane Hospital are voting in the week
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Tabloid Truth — This program looks at how far reporters will go to get the ever elusive "scoop" in Britain's tabloid press. ABC, 9.30pm, Wednesday, October 19. Frontline: Smaller Fish to Fry — When Mediawatch accuses Frontline of not
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Looking out: Sheba and Zoe"Kids lead a tough life ... Kids and my people have a lot in common ... Only our problems aren't solved by getting older. — Dick Gregory Young people have a tough go
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SYDNEY — Youth accommodation workers, employed under the Supported Accommodation Assistance Program (SAAP), consistently at the end of each funding year have to spend much time and energy lobbying to get recurrent
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ADELAIDE — Hundreds of workers at a mass meeting on October 7 voted for an intensive campaign to prevent the privatisation of Modbury Hospital. Bans are in place aimed at disrupting the hospital system without affecting patient care. This follows
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Uncle Sam says: I want you. I want you in khaki. I want you in Haiti. I want you doing your bit for democracy. I want you at one end of a gun barrel. I want what I want — you better believe it — or bang bang you're
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Two recent Victorian government audit reports into forestry operations, obtained through Freedom of Information by the Wilderness Society, provide a catalogue of abuse and deception. FENELLA BARRY, of TWS, describes what they reveal.
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Rewriting historyAs the Labor party continues to implement its restructuring agenda, the effects on women are becoming more widely felt — lower wages, less job security in part-time and casual work, still not
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This is an abridged version of a discussion paper by Alison Dellit, Jorge Jorquera and Natasha Simons on behalf of the Resistance National Executive. The No Fees campaign on campuses has a number of challenges before it. The ANU occupation
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PIERRE SANE, secretary general of Amnesty International, addressed members of the human rights community in Australia at the Regent Hotel in Sydney on October 9. We reprint here major portions of his talk. Subheads have been added. In 1989
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Open Learning — American Music and Popular Culture — Jazz: Part 1 — New Orleans, Chicago, New York. The Dixieland style dominated jazz for the first three decades of the 20th century. In New Orleans and Chicago, Dixieland was the music of
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DAVID GREASON is the author of I was a Teenage Fascist. He was interviewed for 91̳ Weekly by SEAN LENNON. You mention in your book that you got involved in far-right politics at age 14. What led you to this? There are two
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There are few forums for debate among the left and progressive movements today. There are few publications in which progressive-minded people are able to discuss strategies and expect to be given a fair hearing. 91̳ is framed around
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Residents rally to save fig treesBRISBANE ... One hundred residents and supporters tied yellow ribbons around two historic Moreton Bay fig trees in a protest called by the Herston, Kelvin Grove Residents Group
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Colin O'Brien Colin O'Brien died in early September. Colin had been an apprentice chef and a member of Resistance and the Socialist Workers Party in Sydney in the early 1980s. He worked in Europe for a number of years before
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Circus protestADELAIDE — About 100 animal rights supporters braved the rain and wind at Bonython Park on October 1 to protest against the use of animals in circuses. Animal Liberation used the occasion of the
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Hundreds of people rallied in capital cities on October 14-15 to protest against Australian government and business complicity in the 19-year Indonesian occupation of East Timor. Activists highlighted the fact
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Aborigines occupy Qld national parkBRISBANE — More than 30 Aborigines are occupying the Lawn Hill National Park, about 240 km north-west of Mount Isa, in support of their demand for involvement in the management
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Indonesia's government has killed, tortured and jailed its opponents at will for almost three decades, under the guise of fighting communism and instability. Amnesty International has launched a worldwide campaign which
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ADELAIDE — A discordant note struck the much publicised Women, Power and Politics Conference here on October 9 when more than 100 women protested at its elitism and the exorbitant registration costs. The conference,
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Bigots invited into Tasmanian high schoolsHOBART — Tas-Alert, an anti-gay group campaigning against gay law reform in this state, has been allowed space to display its message on secondary school
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Remember them? "The trouble is, the interest in Afghanistan has waned." — A UN official on the civil war that has raged in Afghanistan among US-backed "freedom fighters" since they overthrew a leftist government two and a half years ago.
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Miners threaten strike over Moura claimsBRISBANE — The United Mine Workers Union has warned of a possible statewide strike because de facto spouses of coal miners killed in the Moura underground mine disaster
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Minister for immigration Nick Bolkus is considering legislation that would legalise the illegal detention of asylum seekers between 1989 and 1992. The bill would retrospectively deny compensation to around 350 potential
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PSU Challenge in SA The position of assistant branch secretary of the Public Sector Union in South Australia is being contested by the PSU Challenge, the first time this position has been contested for some time. Barry Cockram,
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Phil Shannon CANBERRA — Members of the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) employed in the Commonwealth Department of Human Services & Health (HSH) have completed a series of meetings on the lack of progress in achieving an agency
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Theatre performances in Canberra and Hobart are well worth seeing if you get the chance. In Canberra, at the National Festival of Australian Theatre, October 18-22, the Burnie, Tasmania, youth theatre group Rip
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Bougainville nurse describes sufferingWOLLONGONG — Ruby Mirenka, deputy matron of the Arawa General Hospital in Bougainville, addressed a lively meeting here on October 12. Her visit was designed to raise
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Chipping away the forest's futureTimber giant Boral's export woodchipping licence was renewed on October 11. The licence allows Boral to export a further 500,000 tonnes of woodchips from native forests in NSW.
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The drought and the market From November 1, the drought which has been crippling much of rural Australia will come to the city. The NSW minister for planning has announced mild water restrictions for all households in Sydney.
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In his excellent summary article, "Chinese workers challenge 'market Stalinism'" (GLW, August 10) Phil Clarke writes that the "general economic model promoted by Deng Xiaoping's regime is 'market Stalinism' — market
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Mission for Batwa Pygmies in Rwanda An Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation fact-finding mission arrived in Kigali, Rwanda, on October 3 to begin a three-month investigation into the situation of the Batwa (Twa). The mission is
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Loyalist cease-fire Six and a half weeks after the Irish Republican Army laid down its arms and declared a cease-fire the Unionists of Northern Ireland have followed suit. On October 13, the Combined Loyalist Military Command,
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Campaign against sanctions An International Appeal to End Sanctions against the Iraqi People is being coordinated by former US attorney general Ramsey Clarke and others in the International Action Centre in New York. The
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Iraqi President Saddam Hussein appears to have lost a desperate gamble. Despite the sickening hypocrisy which portrays Iraqi troops in Iraq as a "threat" and US troops half way around the world as "peacekeepers", the
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Already last month in Jakarta, the Suharto dictatorship had increased surveillance and repression in the lead-up to the coming Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) heads of state meeting. When visiting human rights,
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TIM MARSHALL is a university student in San Francisco and a member of the US socialist organisation Solidarity. In Sydney in July to attend the Resistance conference, he was interviewed for 91̳ Weekly by REIHANA MOHIDEEN. What is it
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The theme of the recent Chris Hani memorial tour of three leading South African labour leaders was "Labour and Women in the New South Africa". Charles Nqakula, general secretary of the South African Communist Party and ANC national executive
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MADRID — "50 años bastan! FMI-BM asasinos!" (50 years is enough! IMF-WB are assassins!) was the chant that resounded through the streets of the Spanish capital on October 2 as an estimated 20,000 demonstrators marched to
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Kamalayan, a newly formed student organisation in the National Capital Region (Metro Manila area), held its 1st congress September 9-11. CARLA GORTON from 91̳ Weekly spoke to JUDY ANN CHAN, newly elected secretary general of Kamalayan, about
Culture
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Poem: FistBecause Grandma grew old twiddling thumbs, hands clasped, eight fingers locked together neat as a carpentry join; thumbs barrelling round and round, over and over
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How Are We To Live? By Peter Singer Text Publishing. $24.95 Reviewed by Dave Riley It's been one helluva century! No sooner are we free of the placenta than we are sentenced to our role in history. But what does it all
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Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover By Anthony Summers Corgi Paperbacks. 621 pp. $16.95 Reviewed by Sean Lennon J. Edgar Hoover ran the FBI from 1924 until his death in 1972. Publicly, he was feted
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The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert Starring Terence Stamp, Hugh Weaving and Guy Pearce Reviewed by Kath Gelber I'm not surprised this movie got a standing ovation at the sought-after midnight screening at Cannes.
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The Blue Kite Directed by Tian Zhuangzhuang Starring Lu Liping, Zhang Wenyao, Chen Xiaoman Mandarin with English subtitles In Sydney at Academy Twin and Walker Cinemas from October 13, followed by interstate screenings
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Precepts for Political ActivityConsider before you speak Be decisive when you act Be careful when you write Be calm and cautious in critical hours Hold back when you are excited Forget
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The Exposurist By P.P. Craney Junction Theatre, cnr George St & South Rds, Thebarton Until November 5 $15/$10, group bookings available. Phone (08) 43 6200. Reviewed by Chris Spindler Set in the Philippines, The
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Requited cartoons Unrequited Love: an exhibition of original cartoons By Judy Horacek Reviewed by Natasha Izatt Everyone has experienced unrequited love. Sitting by the telephone waiting for a call. Then, when reality
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Kicking the habit Allen Carr's easy way to stop smoking Penguin Books Reviewed by Eric Earley For the 71 years of my life I have been an active and passive drug addict, an indoctrinated, brainwashed and willing
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British director KEN LOACH has established himself as the leading socialist film maker working in the English language. Since 1991 he has twice won major prizes at the Cannes film festival, for Hidden Agenda, about Ireland, and Raining Stones, about