@9point = Sunday Concert: Miriam Makeba — Makeba was in Australia in June for the first time in more than 10 years. Her concerts throughout the country were standing room only. She returned to her native South Africa in 1991 after 30 years exile.
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By Adam Hanieh and Melanie Sjoberg
ADELAIDE — Schools look set to enter the world of outsourcing and privatisation if the state Liberal government has its way. The South Australian Institute of Teachers (SAIT) and the Public Service
Our right to choose
@column = The struggle to secure women's right to abortion
is ongoing. Access to abortion as a safe medical procedure
is a political issue in a system which stigmatises abortion
as a criminal act, and
By Norm Dixon
A large movement in opposition to the World Bank/International Monetary Fund-imposed structural adjustment program (SAP) is developing across Papua New Guinea. Of particular concern to the people is a plan to undermine the
By Ray Fulcher
MELBOURNE — An internal struggle in the International Socialist Organisation (ISO) culminated last week in a wholesale purge by the ISO National Committee of its Melbourne branch.
The expelled were members of an
By Dr Cathy Foley
The announcement by President Chirac that France will undertake a few quick nuclear weapon tests created a response in Australia that has taken many by surprise.
Since the end of the Cold War and the signing of
Higher than Heaven: Japan, war and everything
By Tony Barrell and Rick Tanaka
Private Guy International: 1995. 304 pp., $35
Reviewed by Heidi Pegrem
"This book is called Higher than Heaven because that's where a lot of
By Peter Montague
Two important British scientific journals have published editorials calling for more research into environmental chemicals that may be harming the reproductive health and sexual development of men throughout the
Israeli peace movement material published
By Jennifer Thompson
Sydney's Australian-Jewish peace group, Shalom-Salaam, has returned to action, as the Israeli government blocks implementation of the peace accords with the PLO.
Cuban blind school seeks support
By Liam Hazell
"Know about Cuba today", says Pilar Herrera, recently returned from a trip to Cuba.
Herrera has written several articles and interviews from her stay in Cuba.
Rubber tappers protest against nuclear tests
BRASILIA — Around 300 rubber tappers and workers from the Brazilian rainforest protested on July 25 at the French embassy against the resuming of nuclear tests.
The demonstrators
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — In the coal-mining centre of Partizansk in the Maritime District of Russia's Far East, most miners go to work with nothing more than bread and sugar in their lunch boxes. From time to time, miners collapse on
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