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Tough deal for sex workers
that sex work can be "reclaimed" by feminism, because it challenges the nuclear family unit, ... the property of others. The idea of "reclaiming" sex work ignores the reality that, for most ... sex workers, there is no choice. In First World countries like Australia, many sex workers enter the ...
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A woman by any other name?
"space chick" (the official T-shirt for organisers of the Network of Women Students Australia ... "reclaimed" and used positively to empower women. Does that make me one of those politically correct puritans ... minutes earlier? Language is not something that can be "reclaimed" at will by a handful of ...
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Murdoch press ignores problems of youth unemployment
the next generation, it’s time to fight back to reclaim it. Like the article? Subscribe  to Green ... Left now! You can also like  us on Facebook and follow us  on Twitter. Australia April 1, 2017 1132 ...
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Action updates
also launched a new book from Spinifex Press: Radically Speaking: Feminism Reclaimed. May Day film ... organised by the Australia East Timor Association on April 24 attended by 80 people. Aditjondro discussed ...
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Aboriginal activists to appeal conviction
arguments that the four were entitled to reclaim the building as unused crown property. The occupation ... Since the court case I've had numerous calls from Aboriginal people all over Australia offering ...
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Protester wins over made-up charge
anti-Reclaim Australia protester, then covering their actions up by deleting evidence, making up a false charge ...
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Thousands protest as student anger boils over
provided by the Reclaim the Streets collective, 700 students stormed into the main building of the ... students took to the streets across Australia. The day of action was called in response to the legislation ... addressed the crowd, pointing out that the attacks that students face in Australia, like those in Indonesia, ...
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... and ain't i a woman?: Another reason to ditch the G-G
Reclaim the Night are "downright dangerous" because they encourage women to expect to be able to ... in Australia, especially violence against women. Last year the institute's conference on ... violence made headlines with the news that Australia is one of the most violent societies in the world, and ...
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Behind the CFMMEU’s rightward drift on refugees
related — we have the rise of neo-Nazi groups like the United Patriots Front and Reclaim Australia. These ... motions, including on the right to strike, changing the date of Australia day, gender equality in ... CFMEU and Maritime Union of Australia blocked a motion from the left to ban boat turnbacks, which was ...
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10 of the best political albums you'll hear this year
DESERT METAL- BREAK THE SILENCEÂ As Trump-style climate-wrecking policies continued in Australia ... released, moves were afoot to dump radioactive waste in South Australia, sell off Aboriginal land in Western ... Australia and start Adani's Great Barrier Reef-wrecking coal mine in western Queensland. ...
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Who's getting whose preferences?
Seniors, BFC, Reclaim Australia: Reduce Immigration, Greens, NAN, then split between ALP-Coalition, ... (including AAFI, Reclaim Australia and CTA) last. Exceptions are in Queensland, where DSEL is recommending ... "most" lower house seats in South Australia. Fraser & Namadgi (ACT) — ALP, Liberals. Canberra — Not ...
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The HDP and the Turkish elections
Australia. Occasionally, self-immolations by workers demanding pay and justice light up social media, but ... opposition came together to reclaim Istanbul as they last did at Gezi Park in May 2013. Istanbul and Gezi The ...
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Write on: Letters to the editor
conservatism in the working class in rich, exploiter nations like Australia. Several unions in Melbourne have ... Secretary, Australia East Timor Association Sydney Beazley's sexist call Kim Beazley was reported to ... young, the sick, the aged. The call for measures to "improve Australia's birth rate" also ...
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Construction workers to visit M1 blockade
is not recognised as a public holiday in Australia, so for many years the traditional May Day parade ... initiative of the M1 Alliance to reclaim May 1 for the workers' movement. Kingham said that the May ... in Europe and Australia has forced Rio Tinto to back down. "The workers are now organising ...
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Packin' plenty of weight
Henry Rollins have developed a cult following in North America, Australia and Europe. If you're ... on people to empower themselves and reclaim their self-esteem, Rollins' approach concentrates on ... from the stereo, give Weight a twirl and let it all out. (The Rollins Band will be touring Australia in ...
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Messengers of the natural world
Vintage Australia. 209 pp., $17 Reviewed by Dave Riley If you have fished Port Phillip Bay this message is ... communities visited by Cowan in Western Australia, Torres Strait and Borneo are a canon of belief that ... reclaim some of the wonder of the past, projecting a new metaphysics onto nature merely hampers our ...
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For longer than the pyramids
sick and die. A few fortunate children have been brought to Australia for a holiday in a clean ... impossible to reclaim the millions of hectares of contaminated land, once the breadbasket of the Soviet ... government is deciding where to situate Australia's first national permanent low level radioactive waste ...
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Not much left to say
"progress" and Reclaim the Night. There is also a "fairly gentle start" to a (promised) series of ... we don't glorify these crimes. Bogle is still a nationalist. "Sayonara Australia ... " bemoans the selling of Australia to Japanese capitalists. Despite a reference to free enterprise, this ...
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The inspiring life of Eddie Mabo
ties, the land was legally the crown's. The court case he waged was not merely to reclaim his land, ... ramifications as it challenges ideologically the very basis of Australia's dispossession of the original ... exposes a side of Australia's history that is rarely given attention in the mainstream. August 19, ...
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The thin end of the wedge
economic theory. In a sense the Change the Rules campaign signals a preparedness to reclaim ownership of ...  to 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ now! You can also like  us on Facebook and follow us  on Twitter. Australia October ...
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Of course, #MeToo
have shared the hashtag. The hashtag’s instantaneous ascent should shock no one. In Australia, sexual ... record — and as we draw near to national Reclaim the Night rallies around the country — we cannot afford ... You can also like  us on Facebook and follow us  on Twitter. Australia October 16, 2017 1158 Harvey ...
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52 left-leaning albums from 2014
reminding the world that Australia Day is also known to First Nations people as Invasion Day. The national ... played by Australia's two major parties, but both of them aren't really that different. Both of ... Grant. 25. PROVOCALZ- HEROIN & AIR MAX At the start of September, one of Australia's biggest ...
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Sydney: Queer artists evicted from squat
accommodation discrimination. An April 2008 report, Australia’s Homeless Youth, by the National Youth ... Commission, revealed that 100,000 people were homeless on any given night in Australia. One third — or 36,000 ... there were between 5000 and 6250 homeless gay, lesbian and bisexual youth in Australia every night. That ...
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New video on Bougainville
recently for the premiere of a new video on Bougainville. Bougainville: Australia's Hidden War was ... Australia's direct but secret involvement in the war and which is totally ignored by the Packer-Murdoch ... produced programs on politics and music; the ACTU and the Indonesian generals; and Reclaim the Night. ARTV ...
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Action updates
the National Australia Bank owns the Northern Bank, the main bank in Northern Island, and plays ... campuses. "Reclaim the night on your campus" was organised jointly by the women's departments ... Indonesia's occupation of East Timor on August 17, Indonesia's independence day. Australia/East Timor ...