HREOC: help or hindrance in human rights? By Angela Matheson Australia's first Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social justice commissioner, Mick Dodson is pacing about his office at the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) in
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By Kim Comerford BRISBANE — About 60 people attended the Women's Liberation Conference organised by the Democratic Socialist Party (DSP) and Resistance on October 29. The conference was the first of its kind here. The conference panels focussed on
By Denis Doherty A national peace protest and camp planned for December 1 to 3 is to be held on the lawns of Parliament House. Organisers are determined to remind the major players in the nuclear club that the majority of people want nuclear weapons
Tom Flanagan DARWIN — The actions of trade unions played a decisive role in the delay, and eventual success, of ERA's efforts to export a shipment of uranium from Fort Hill Wharf last week. The threat of union bans was one of the factors that led
Virtual morality "The university of Dallas, a Catholic institution, is considering a rule that would make sex in the dormitory rooms punishable by expulsion ... To avoid creating an incentive for abortion, the rule would exempt pregnant women from
Reinventing Darwin — The Great Evolutionary DebateBy Niles EldredgeWeidenfeld and Nicolson, 1995 Reviewed by Adam Hanieh The writings of evolutionary biologist and palaeontologist Stephen Jay Gould have an enormously popular following. So it was
[This poem is about Harry Connell, long time activist and founder member of the Builders Labourers Rank and File Committee in the early 1950s.] Harry, they're workin' in the rain, Harry, mate, they're workin' in the rain, Down in George St., mate,
By Stan Thompson ADELAIDE — One thousand nurses held an angry march and rally on October 30 to protest against cuts to the health budget. In the last two years, the Liberal state government has cut $61 million dollars from the health budget which
The Box Seat: Seamus Heaney — Heaney was born in 1939 in County Derry, in British-occupied northern Ireland. He now both a professor of rhetoric at Harvard and a professor of poetry at Oxford. His works are richly physical in their depiction of
Australian Options — Left discussions for social justice and political changeAustralian Options Publishing Inc.Reviewed by Melanie Sjoberg The second issue of a new quarterly journal, Australian Options, is now available. The journal aims to
Unsustainable agriculture and vegetarianism By Peter Johnston "Today a greater percentage of the human race is overweight than at any other time in history. Meanwhile a greater percentage of the human race suffers from malnutrition than at any other
Help needed! Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly has received news that Brandon Astor Jones, one of our weekly columnists, needs some help. Brandon is on death row in the United States. He is appealing against his conviction. However he has lost faith in the lawyer he
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