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Taliban are still brutal 'villains'
In August, a United Nations investigation revealed that the Taliban's war against women was ... UN special rapporteur on violence against women, Radhika Coomaraswamy, has concluded that ... still-in-place taboos on women's extra-residential employment have left many almost without options. As ...
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Jean Devanny: pioneer Marxist feminist
struggle against class exploitation and to resist the restrictions placed on women. She had the distinction ... women's liberationist. Carole Ferrier has produced an excellent biography, after 20 years of study and ... New Zealand in 1894, Devanny was raised in a small mining town. Early on she began to support the ...
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The system's not working — time for a change
tells us something different. Young people know the future on offer — poverty, unemployment, an ... education system based on competition and subordination, cuts to health care and the dole, shit pay, ... mind-numbing McJobs... the list goes on. And the government isn't going to change things. They're the ...
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Australia nightmare for asylum seekers
the men, women and children who come to the Refugee Claimants Centre. Instead of seeking asylum as ... when his money ran out and he faced sleeping on the street, he went into a police station and, subduing ... can apply to the Refugee Review Tribunal to review your case. Solicitors acting on behalf of asylum ...
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Howard's racist record
Protection Act and giving the go-ahead to the destruction of Aboriginal women's sacred sites on ... By Margaret Allum On the evening of his election win in 1999, PM John Howard announced his support ... the context of people who died in wars between Australia and foreigners", Howard said. ...