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  1. World War II veterans

    World War II veterans During the second world war, hundreds of thousands of Australian women ... as labourers on farms and in factories when the men went overseas. They swore the oath of allegiance ... to Australia alongside the men, worked full time and often overtime without pay and were on stand-by ...

  2. Attack on youth services, media

    abstinence working in relation to any sexually transmitted disease, for example. The war on drugs didn't ... liking of health minister Brian Howe. This is the latest in a wave of attacks on young people's ... media and services. On February 25, the orientation handbook of the University of Technology, Sydney ...

  3. A life in the struggle

    articulate women who had campaigned against conscription during World War I. "All my life I have been ... By Tracy Sorensen SYDNEY — Phyllis Johnson attended her first International Women's Day march ... on February 27. For her generation of activists, IWD was "always a tremendous day. It was a day ...

  4. A long way, in many directions

    activity in the women's movement, but none have turned their backs on feminist ideas. Many stress the ... Changing Our Lives: Women working in the women's movement 1970-1990 Edited by Maud Cahill and ... in the women's liberation movement in the early 1970s, as a very shy and naive 18-year old. The ...

  5. Message from Irish prisoner

    Branch) by MARY MCARDLE, an Irish Republican prisoner of war in Maghaberry jail in occupied Ireland. We ... the women POW s of Maghaberry Gaol would like to send solidarity greetings to those people in ... in these British-occupied counties. As you well know in a war where only one side gets to tell its ...

  6. First-hand view of Vietnam's revolution

    talks in Fiji on normalisation of relations with the United States, in which Madame Binh participated as ... Governor-General Hayden. Madame Binh also met number of aid organisations and the Union of Australian Women. Madame ... Binh agreed to be interviewed by 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ on her role in the historic Paris negotiations. The US was ...