Social solution to a social problemSocial solution to a social problem
By Sue Bolton
Economic independence and equality are preconditions for the true liberation of women. While Australian governments feign support for these rights, the
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Clear the air The Non-Smokers Movement of Australia asks that Standards Australia, an influential private body that sets uniform standards for Australia clean up its act. Its draft of The Use of Ventilation and Air Conditioning in Buildings, part
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"The team that we have hired to train our security force members are not cowboys; they are a reputable professional company, who are part of our many-faceted strategy to reach a lasting solution to this particular crisis", PNG
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Social life or social change? Social life or social change? March 8 is International Women's Day. Since 1908, women in almost every country have come together on this date in marches, meetings, rallies and festivals to demand their right to
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It's been three months since the Liberals' workplace relations bill was passed into law with the support of the Democrats. MAX ADLAM, women's officer of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union South Australian branch and
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O-weeks a great success for ResistanceOver the last fortnight, Resistance has joined more than 370 people at university "orientation weeks" around the country. The Resistance club at the University of Sydney joined 100 people.
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The celebrated "failure" of a media stunt in John Howard's NSW electoral office, organised by Friends of Hinchinbrook a few weeks ago, raises some interesting tactical issues for the environment movement. A protest against the Federal
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Bioencephalopathy: A manual for sufferersBioencephalopathy: A manual for sufferers Behind the front part of my head lives something of which I am truly proud — my consciousness. Despite my penchant for eccentricity and the occasional burst
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Meeting prepares for deaths in custody summitSo far this year, there have been seven Aboriginal deaths in custody — "almost one for every week of the year", Tauto Sansbury, National Aboriginal Justice Advisory Committee
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The women's movement of the 1960s and '70s had a profound impact and extended opportunities in virtually every aspect of women's lives. It is now much more accepted that women can have a career, that they don't have to spend their
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Looking out: Hopelessness and despairHave you ever wondered about the topics that prisoners discuss late at night, when the prison is relatively quiet and locked down? This will be the first of a series of excerpts from
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A national executive meeting of the National Tertiary Education and Industry Union on January 28 moved to support the National Union Students-organised national day of action (NDA) against education cuts on March 26. It also decided
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CPSU protest CANBERRA — Members of the Community and Public Sector Union protested against the Liberal government's cuts and privatisation of the public service outside the "Innovations in Public Service" conference on February 25. Industrial
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Vanstone under pressure over AustudyEducation minister Amanda Vanstone was forced into another embarrassing situation on February 20, when pressure from the Senate and Liberal backbenchers forced a partial back-down on
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Pearson blasts Borbidge's anti-Wik campaignBRISBANE — In the March 1 Courier-Mail, Aboriginal leader Noel Pearson explains that the Queensland government is mounting a concerted effort to create popular opposition to the High
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Socialist candidate calls for youth voiceBRISBANE — Kathy Newnam, Democratic Socialist candidate for Central ward in the March 15 Brisbane City Council elections, has called for a greater voice on council for young people and
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Korean workers prepare to strikeSYDNEY — The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions is launching another general strike, according to Jongsoae Oh, a leading member of the KCTU. Oh told a public meeting held on February 25
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Victory for Viking workersSYDNEY — Employees at the Viking Office Products warehouse in Rydalmere have scored a victory after two days on strike. Members of the National Union of Workers voted on February
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Victorian teachers stop workMELBOURNE — Around 4000 Victorian teachers stopped work on February 27 and attended a mass meeting at the Sports and Entertainment Centre to show their anger at the continuing
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Campaigns against fees SYDNEY — Students achieved two small victories against the introduction of up-front fees last week. The council of the University of Technology Sydney met on February 27 to discuss a proposal charge up-front fees for up to
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@columhead = More or less "The bad reports about Indonesia in the Japanese mass media are more or less spread by agents of the Japanese Communist Party" — Indonesian Information Ministry "director of journalists" Akhmadsyah Naina, in a statement
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Is racism 'un-Australian?'CANBERRA — Around 200 people attended a two-day "Is racism 'un-Australian'?" conference here on February 21-22. The conference, jointly organised by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres
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Liberals threaten environment officeEnvironmental Defenders Offices (EDOs) have been threatened with funding cuts because they are defending the environment. The EDOs each receive around $70,000 a year from the federal
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Family day care under attackHOBART — The University of Tasmania administration in mid-January gave parents using the family day care scheme two weeks to find alternative child-care. Opposition has forced the university to delay
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Melbourne rally for parksMELBOURNE — Three thousand people gathered on February 23 to express their anger at the state government's environmental vandalism. The rally was called by Hands Off Our Parks, a coalition of more than
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British socialist leader speaks in MelbourneMELBOURNE — Peter Taaffe, general secretary of the British Socialist Party (formerly Militant Labour), spoke at a public forum here on February 24. More than 90 people filled the meeting
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UNSW staff win riseSYDNEY — UNSW academic staff appear to have won significant gains as a result of their strong campaign, including scheduling a strike for March 3 and 4, at the beginning of the academic year. After stalling
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Pickets organised by Committees in Solidarity with Latin America and the Caribbean and the Brisbane Zapatista Front were held at Mexican consulates in Sydney and Brisbane on February 28. The Mexican government has refused to honour the Accord on
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Secondary students organiseSYDNEY — Twenty United Secondary Students Union (NSW) members discussed the need to build campaigns to fight the government's attacks on high school students at the first NSW USSU conference on
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In the forests of Goolengook in East Gippsland, there are places where the understorey is so thick that it can take half a day to walk a kilometre; whole valleys of tree ferns, where the smallest is over 10 metres tall; trees so big
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One year too many Sunday, as we have all been repeatedly reminded, was the first anniversary of the election of the Howard government. For big business and its media, it was an occasion for taking stock of what the government has "achieved", and
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Women played an active role in Burma's struggle for independence — from British colonial rule and Japanese occupation — and remained an organised force under the post-independence government, 1948-58. Ne Win's seizure of power in 1958 and his
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Weeds could develop resistance to Roundup The evolution of pesticide resistance plays a key role in keeping farmers on the so-called "pesticide treadmill" — a cycle in which farmers feel compelled to move on to other chemicals as older pesticides
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MANILA — Workers at Telefunken Microelectronics Philippines (Temic) started to stage their own version of "people power" during the four-day anniversary of the EDSA revolution from February 22. The EDSA revolution is the popular
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As a representative of the Bougainville Interim Government, I have made many appeals to the Australian and Papua New Guinea governments in the past to end the war on Bougainville and all the suffering and death that it has caused.
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Swaziland union leaders freed@box text intro = As the pro-democracy general strike in Swaziland is set to enter its second month, workers celebrated the release of four senior leaders of the Swaziland Federation of Trade Unions on
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For the second time in two weeks, the armed forces' chief of social and political affairs, Syarwan Hamid, has accused the People's Democratic Party (PRD) of being behind the riots which have been rocking the country over the last
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Russian budget-cutters court environmental disasterMOSCOW — Sergey Mund, the director of the Elektrogorsk Institute for Oil Processing, was clearly worried. On his institute's premises just east of Moscow were 663 rods of
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West Papuans in mercenaries' sights? @box text intro = PNG Prime Minister Chan has hinted that mercenaries may also be deployed against Free West Papua (OPM) rebels fighting Indonesian occupation of West Papua (Irian Jaya). Speaking at a press
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Throughout 1996, the Chinese government continued to commit widespread human rights abuses in Tibet. These included instances of death in detention, torture, arbitrary arrests, detention without public trial, long detention of
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Starting on March 3, the 14 People's Democratic Party (PRD) prisoners who are now on trial on subversion charges, which carry the death penalty, will launch a hunger strike protest against unfair actions by the judges and
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SAN FRANCISCO — Hundreds of demonstrators chanted "Just don't do it!" at the opening of a Nike super-store in the main shopping area here on February 22. Nineteen protesters were arrested for blocking the door to the three-story
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South Africa bans landmines @box text intro = South Africa has banned the use, storage, manufacture and development of all landmines. Defence minister Joe Modise told a media briefing on February 20 that landmines would no longer be part of South
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According to political commentator Laurie Oakes, writing in the March 4 Bulletin, the Australian government was given detailed information about the PNG government's plot to use mercenaries against the people of Bougainville last
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Four minutes after their strike began at 12:01am on February 15, American Airlines pilots were ordered back to work by President Clinton under an especially reactionary labour law, the Railway Labor Act (RLA). This law authorises the President to
Culture
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@details 3 = TelekGeorge Mamua TelekOrigin through MDS Review by Norm Dixon It has been a long wait for those who were captivated by George Telek's Australian recording debut way back in 1991, when his collaboration with Melbourne-based Not
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etails = The Marxists and the Jewish question: History of a debate 1843-1943By Enzo TraversoHumanities Press, New Jersey, 1996. 288 pp, $37 (pb) Review by Chris Slee This book reviews a century of writings by Marxists on the history, social
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Sylvia Pankhurst: Sexual Politics and Political ActivismBy Barbara WinslowUniversity College London Press, 1996. 236 pp., $37.95 (pb) Review by Phil Shannon Strife and controversy have reigned over the bones of Sylvia Pankhurst, daughter of
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FrontierThree one-hour filmsABC TV, March 5, 12 & 19 at 8.30 pm Review by Chris Martin Frontier is the history that Howard wants us to forget, the bloody, murderous history of white Australia's unfinished land war against the Aboriginal nations of
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Manifestations — a year in the life of the TarkineAvailable from Kaganovich Productions, PO Box 83, Paddington NSW 2021 and the Wilderness Shop, Salamanca Place, Hobart$25 Review by Joel Wilson In 1995, the Tasmanian government bulldozed a road
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Suppression StoriesBy Brian MartinFund for Intellectual Dissent, 1997. 171 pp. Review by Allen Myers Brian Martin, an occasional contributor to 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly, has produced an intriguing and very readable account of the suppression of dissent in