"... and ain't i a woman?" last week said that the National Council of Women of Australia, the YWCA and the Australian Federation of Business and Professional Women would each receive $300,000 in funding from the Office of the Status of Women. This
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The United Nations has selected Havana, the capital of Cuba, to host next year's World Environment Day. The choice acknowledges revolutionary Cuba's outstanding achievements in the protection of the environment.
The announcement was made on
REVIEW BY SIMON BUTLER
Deadly Deceits: My 25 years in the CIABy Ralph McGeheeOcean Press, Melbourne.231pp. $26.95 (pb)
"My view, backed by 25 years of experience is, quite simply, that the CIA is the covert action arm of the Presidency. Most of
More than 150 deaths around the world have been linked to defective Firestone tyres fitted to Ford motor vehicles. The deadly problem involves the tread separating from the tyre.
According to Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman, writing in their
Sam's Big RoosterThe Savoy-Doucet Cajun BandArhoolie records<http://www.arhoolie.com>
REVIEW BY BILL NEVINS
Cajun music is people's music at its deepest. It is the songs and dances of survivors of colonial wars, religious and class
The Republican and Democratic conventions are now over with absolutely no surprises or revelations to record. George W. Bush and Albert Gore received their party's endorsement, as predicted months ago. The two are now touring the country with their
SYDNEY — This exhibition of Chris Wyatt's paintings focused on the massacre of Aborigines at Myall Creek in NSW in 1838 is the artist's "contribution to the reconciliation debate and to reaching a clearer understanding of the unacceptable situation
BY SUE BOLAND
SYDNEY — One Nation NSW upper house member David Oldfield and One Nation's former national director David Ettridge (no longer a One Nation member) have given the NSW Labor and federal Coalition governments an excuse to place further
BY SIMON BUTLER & BRONWEN BEECHEY
Ten Iraqi asylum seekers, charged with inciting the desperate riots at the Woomera detention centre in August, are now being systematically denied even their most basic rights as prisoners, according to lawyers
BY SHANE BENTLEY
SYDNEY — The next step here in the campaign for refugee rights is the September 23 rally to be held through the streets of Parramatta. The march, organised by the Refugee Action Collective (RAC), is using the Olympic period to
BY SIMON BUTLER
Federal employment minister Tony Abbott has come to the defence of Centacare, the Catholic Church's government-funded employment agency, arguing that it should be able to sack employees it discovers are homosexuals.
Abbott's
BY SUSAN PRICE
MELBOURNE — World Economic Forum officials threatened to "pack up and go home" at the end of the summit's first day on September 11 if police could not ensure more delegates were brought into the conference on time on September 12,
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