The true story of Di and Frances illustrates the hidden horror couples can face when politicians lock them out of the law simply because they are gay. Di and Frances were partners. They lived, paid bills and slept together for more
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The federal and state governments are midway through a review of community legal centres (CLCs) throughout Australia. A key objective is to restrict CLCs' involvement in legal reform campaigns and prisoners' rights and force them to
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In the summer of 1938, my grandfather, Frederick Holden, worked for a brewery. He carried bags of malt up a stairwell and deposited the malt into a giant vat. At that time, you wore a canvas hood which covered you from head to waist
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Actively Radical TV — Sydney community television's progressive current affairs producers tackle the hard issues from the activist's point of view. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Thursday, 10pm and Saturday, 7pm. Ph 9565 5522. Access News —
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Love them bombs! War's a terrible thing, terrible. — 'tis. It's no way to conduct business. — No way. I mean, look at this thing what's happenin' at the moment. — Terrible it is. You turn on the telly and they tell ya the bombs are
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MELBOURNE — One of the bitterest disputes in the history of the Textiles, Clothing and Footwear Union was resolved on February 5. Victory for the union members at Australian Dyeing Company (ADC) came after 67 days on the picket
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On February 26 the Australian Industrial Relations Commission (AIRC) granted an award to Employment National Administration (ENA) that extinguishes almost all hope of its 912 former Commonwealth Employment Service (CES) workers ever
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NATO hands off Serbia! Serbia out of Kosova! The Democratic Socialist Party and Resistance condemn the United States-led NATO military aggression against Serbia, as well as the political support given to this aggression by John Howard's
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Kosova genocide: made in USA By Michael Karadjis "Kosovo is to Serbs what Jerusalem and the West Bank are to Israelis — a sacred ancestral homeland now inhabited largely by Muslims ... the Kosovo issue may have to be settled one day by some
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The struggle against uranium enters the labour movementCommercial mining of uranium in Australia got off to a slow start. The industry was ready to enter large-scale production in the early 1970s to meet an expected world boom in
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In February, a French court sentenced a Malian woman to eight years' imprisonment for the “mutilation of minors” — the circumcision of 48 girls. Although most had been circumcised more than 10 years ago, the defendant
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What is the role of the education system in capitalist society? School is certainly not about helping to develop freethinking people with the courage to act on their convictions. The school system encourages competition more than
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One world By Brandon Astor Jones "Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science." — William Wordsworth In the same way that I have chosen sisters and
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Greens, waste and democracy By Stephen O'Brien NEWCASTLE — During last month's NSW state election campaign, supporters of the Greens gathered signatures on a petition which called for a ban on campaigning within one kilometre of polling booths
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Profiting from rape According to Rekha Pande, the women's studies course vice-president at Hyderabad in India, the country's Prime Minister had a special ugadi (new year) gift for women on March 19. In collaboration with insurance companies, the
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MOSCOW — With a shower of paint bombs, rocks, eggs and bottles, thousands of demonstrators outside the US embassy here on March 25 expressed outrage at the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. Next morning, an estimated 5000
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NTEU highlights education declineThe stand-off between the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) and the senior management at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) and Sydney University, along with a proposed strike at
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MELBOURNE — After five years of campaigning and several appearances in the Federal and High courts, the Rabelais case is finally over. On March 24, the Victorian director of public prosecutions dropped the charges against the four
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Teachers say 'negotiate'ADELAIDE — Hundreds of education workers gathered in Victoria Square on March 30 to call on the state government to negotiate genuinely on an enterprise agreement. High school principal and Australian
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MELBOURNE — People in white radiation suits and with green faces will be appearing at high schools as part of a street theatre organised by Resistance to show the dangers of the nuclear industry. High school students will walk out
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Anti-nuclear forum By Keara Courtney SYDNEY — Dr Helen Caldicott and Dr Jim Green condemned the federal government's pro-nuclear push — which includes giving the go ahead to a new nuclear reactor at Lucas Heights in Sydney's
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The federal Coalition government's hypocrisy was again evident when immigration, multicultural affairs and reconciliation minister Philip Ruddock launched its multi-million dollar "Living in Harmony" program. The program, which
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During March, more than 500 people attended a national campus speaking tour organised by Resistance on the topic: "Socialism vs Capitalism: what would Marx say today". About 70 people attended the forum at Sydney University, at which
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SYDNEY — Last year a proposal was raised in a number of left student groups that only women members should vote in candidate preselections for women's officers. This position was adopted by the Activist Left group on Sydney
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MUA election issues begin to surfaceLast week, seafarer members of the Maritime Union of Australia attending their monthly stop-work meeting were given the latest issue of Voice, the journal of the Maritime Unionists Socialist
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MELBOURNE — The National Organisation of Women Students Australia (NOWSA) Collective has been meeting to discuss organisation of the annual feminist student conference. NOWSA conferences provide an opportunity for women
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The plan to dump 75,000 tonnes of high-level nuclear waste in South Australia or Western Australia is gaining increasing support. The plan came to light in December when a promotional video produced by Pangea Resources was leaked.
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Company sacks 550 meatworkersADELAIDE — Five hundred and fifty meatworkers in the small town of Murray Bridge were sacked following the sale of Metro meatworks to the Adelaide-based CR&S. Workers at the plant were stood
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SYDNEY — On March 3, Legal Aid's Children's Legal Service convened a meeting to discuss the announcement by the Ombudsman's Office of a inquiry into serious allegations against management and staff at the Kariong Detention Centre. The centre is the
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SYDNEY — You wouldn't know it from the establishment media's coverage of the result of the March 27 NSW state election, but its greatest significance was the rebuff of the ruling class's privatisation drive by a whopping 56% of
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Palm Sunday marches oppose Jabiluka mine Anti-uranium protesters used marches held around Australia on March 28 (Palm Sunday) to focus attention on stopping the Jabiluka uranium mine in Kakadu National Park in the Northern Territory. The
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Everybody knows that politicians are liars. A recent survey showed only 7% of the population think that politicians are trustworthy. The election campaign for the March 27 NSW election only served to confirm people's suspicions.
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Mandatory sentencing and non-violent protestDARWIN — The Northern Territory's mandatory sentencing laws have always been controversial. Now NT police are attempting to use these laws, originally designed to protect property, to
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Struth! "On the GST question, the [public] doubts are again growing as to whether a new tax is really a reform at all." — Pollster Rod Cameron, complaining that the Howard government is doing enough to "educate" us in economic orthodoxy.
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Another 'beautiful, boutique' nuclear reactor for SydneySYDNEY — On March 30, federal environment minister Robert Hill announced his approval for the construction of a new nuclear reactor in the southern Sydney suburb of Lucas
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On March 31, thousands of students took to the streets in rallies across Australia against the voluntary student unionism (VSU) legislation. The rallies were a vibrant rebuttal of the Liberals' claim of majority support for VSU.
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ADELAIDE — Around 120 people were addressed by Aboriginal elders and and other activists opposed to uranium mining at a public meeting on March 22 organised by the Jabiluka Action Group. Arabunna elder Kevin Buzzacott spoke about the
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Mexican indigenous rights referendum a big successMEXICO CITY — On March 21, almost 3 million Mexicans participated in a makeshift referendum on indigenous rights called by the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN). The
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ADELAIDE — Last year, Adelaide academic and president of the Conservation Council of South Australia, Dr Tim Doyle, participated in an international fact-finding mission to examine the impact of Western Mining Corporation operations
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Indonesian PRD resumes open campaigningOn March 21, the People's Democratic Party (PRD) organised a series a public meetings in several Indonesian cities to proclaim that it was back in full
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Taking a break from the daily bombing of Iraq, US-led NATO forces are escalating the bombing of Yugoslavia, threatening a wider war. This underscores the determination of the US ruling class to build up its already massive
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Britain's Independent Television Commission on March 22 suspended the license of the Kurdish satellite television station, Med TV, for 21 days, forcing it to cease broadcasting. The ban followed the station's screening of live footage
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Cuba denounces US 'human rights' hypocrisy At the session of the United Nations Human Rights Commission in Geneva on March 24, Cuba's vice-president, Dr Carlos Lage Davila, replied to charges by the US government that in Cuba there has been a
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Abdallah Ocalan, the revered leader of the Workers Party of Kurdistan (PKK), was abducted from Nairobi on February 15 by the Turkish Special Forces. The event spurred worldwide protests. Ocalan represents 20 million Kurds in
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The major East Timorese newspapers Suara Timor Timur and Novas carried lead stories on March 29 about Indonesia's People's Democratic Party's (PRD) position on East Timorese self-determination. That day, the Election Implementation
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Nigerian environmentalists arrested Those who think there is now freedom in Nigeria should rethink. The crackdown against environment and indigenous rights activists is continuing, says Environmental Rights Action (ERA). Three environment activists
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Is the Communist Manifesto still relevant? The Communist ManifestoBy Karl Marx and Friedrich EngelsWith a commentary by Leon TrotskyResistance Books, 199880pp., $6.95 (pb) Review by Chris Slee Generations of socialists have read the Moscow
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Mermaid AvenueBilly Bragg and WilcoWarner Music Review by James Smith "The world is filled with people who are no longer needed/ And who try to make slaves of us/ And they have their music and we have ours/ Theirs, the wasted songs of a
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With federal MP Trish Draper, amongst others, still insisting that it should be banned outright, Adrian Lyne's new film version of Lolita has finally been released in Australia. Those who recall the anti-censorship campaigns of the
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The after-death experience The American Way of Death RevisitedBy Jessica MitfordVirago, 1998282 pp., $39.95 (hb) Review by Phil Shannon It's funerals today, something else tomorrow, warned Mortuary Management in 1961 about the perils of reform of
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Advertisement Premiere screenings of Indonesia in Revolt — Democracy or Death! Made in Indonesia and Australia between August 1998 and March 1999 in cooperation with activists from the Indonesian political underground. Sydney 6.30pm,
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Bridging the divide HAVANA — On April 1, the Baltimore Orioles became the first US major league baseball team to play on Cuban soil in 40 years. After the game, musicians from both nations danced the night away at an all-star concert to bridge