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  1. Australia's political history comes to life

    screens, hands-on and static displays, models and soundscapes. There are period costumes that both adults ... periods and events such as the Great Depression, the world wars, the Petrov affair and the 1967 referendum ... on Aboriginal inclusion in the census count, the dismissal of Labor PM Gough Whitlam in 1975, and the ...

  2. Looking out: Past and present?

    government. Korean women, forced into prostitution by Japan during World War II, were compensated as ... patients for back problems related to carrying too much weight on their backs. Furthermore, the patients ... say to the Black man on death row? The Black mother, alone, bitter, overburdened, and spent? Who tells ...

  3. Privatisation is not the solution

    including land). Until the end of World War II, much of this infrastructure remained in state hands. This ... did not mean that private capital did not have a firm grip on the Australian economy, rather — as most ... the burden. In the post-war capitalist boom, the resources were available to governments to develop ...

  4. PUK attacks human rights in Iraqi Kurdistan

    On February 16, the PUK's security forces in Sulaymaniyah arrested Ammar Sharif, Fahid Nasser ... leaders of the General Union of the Displaced (which campaigns on behalf of Arab political refugees from ... the Iraqi south). The three remain in detention. Prior to that, on January 21, armed PUK men in ...