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1. Women take on BHP and win — a feminist herstory that needs telling

   well-paid jobs. We took on BHP and won jobs for women. I’m now a retired Australian Workers Union (AWU) ... Two-thirds of young women were unemployed, others survived on piece work — sewing in backyard “factories” ... had to take on women workers, because they were telling us "there are no jobs for women". We ...

2. Policies of Turkey's Erdoğan’s, at home and abroad, are a desperate bid to buy time

   democrat and sitting at a negotiation table, the next he is declaring war on Kurdistan and declaring ... rails against women who laugh in public or abortion rights. He also expresses rhetorical outrage against ... Erdoğan relies heavily on our ability to not break through these prejudices, just as the right in ...

3. Justice for the kanakas: Australia’s ‘invisible’ Melanesians

   stain on our past has yet to be properly addressed. The process was planned in stages over several years ... on unofficially. Blackbirding The practice of recruiting Melanesians was called blackbirding. ... “Kanaka” was a word the Hawaiians working on whaling ships used to describe themselves. It meant “human ...