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Tertiary fees exclude women

Tertiary fees exclude women By Michael Tardif Two studies released last week have further emphasised the likely impact of the federal government's push towards user pays tertiary education. Universities have been able to charge fees

NZ Alliance rises to challenge of leader's loss

By Norm Dixon AUCKLAND — In the wake of the resignation of Jim Anderton, leader of the New Zealand Alliance and the country's most popular parliamentarian, the five-party Alliance has begun far-reaching organisational changes and policy

Labor shamed by East Timor independence struggle

By Wendy Robertson The thousands-strong protests in Dili and the 29 East Timorese students occupying the US Embassy in Jakarta have again focused international attention on the plight of the East Timorese under Indonesian occupation. This

Parliament locks out MPs

Parliament locks out MPs By Ray Smith HOBART — The speaker of state parliament, Graeme Page, will introduce legislation in the new year to protect members of parliament from their constituents. This follows an embarrassing incident

Solidarity

Â鶹´«Ã½ is not only a newspaper. We do not choose what we cover in the same way that the establishment press does. We do not seek to sensationalise, or to exploit subjects. For Â鶹´«Ã½, reporting is an act of solidarity. So it is with the

Human rights, the UN and the US blockade

The following speech was given by the Cuban foreign minister, ROBERTO ROBAINA, to the 49th session of the United Nations General Assembly, on October 3, 1994. While we are here making speeches, the military occupation of a small and impoverished

Some further reasonable doubts

By Diana Rickard DARWIN — At the beginning of November, I spent two and a half days supporting a friend in court who had sustained a wound on the back of his head while being pursued by an overzealous young policeman carrying a regulation

Pacific women in struggle

Pacific women in struggle Daughters of the Pacific By Zohl de Ishtar Spinifex Press. $23.95 Reviewed by Samantha Lazzaro Zohl de Ishtar first became involved with the Pacific in 1971, when as a student she participated in a camp on

Pollution laws ignored over decades

By Jim McIlroy BRISBANE — Revelations that Queensland authorities had ignored the total failure of the state's anti-pollution laws for many years underlined the urgent need for establishment of an independent environmental authority,

Radio highlights

International Playhouse — The House by the River — By Barbara Sapergia. It's a custom at funerals not to say anything bad about the departed, publicly at least. But afterwards? Allison Ransome takes her chances and turns up at her own wake. A

Loose cannons

Better than an inquiry "Almost two years after the NFPS [National Forest Policy Statement] was signed by all States, except Tasmania, not one area of forest has been protected, but many important areas of forests have been logged." — Letter from

Aboriginal community sees land bill as inadequate

By Stephen Robson Meeting in Melbourne on November 2 and 3, representatives of 25 Aboriginal organisations declared the federal government's funding for land acquisition inadequate. Aaron Ross, the publicity officer for the New South Wales