Never Truly LostBy Paddy PallinUNSW Press, 1996. 224pp., $19.95Reviewed by Flora Graham "Paddymade" light-weight camping gear and equipment for walkers is known and used worldwide, and Paddy Pallin himself was well known and respected by bushwalkers
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A March 8 meeting of thousands of men and women celebrating International Women's Day at a hall in the city of Erbil, in Iraqi Kurdistan, was attacked by armed Islamist groups. In addition to the harassing and assaulting of large numbers of women's
By Peter Montague
The US food industry went ballistic in January when Food & Water, Inc, a grassroots advocacy group in Walden, Vermont, and Environmental Research Foundation in Annapolis, Maryland, published an ad in Supermarket News comparing
George Brown was an elder from the Wreck Bay community. He began his successful struggle for land rights for his people in the early '70s. Like all Aboriginal land rights struggles, it was long and tiring, but it culminated after more than 20 years
By Lisa Macdonald
Only one other term has featured as boldly and often in the establishment media as the word "mandate" since the March 2 election. "Political correctness", used in its derogatory sense to trivialise and attack attempts by
By Sue Bull
CANBERRA — In the last two weeks, unions involved in the ACT public sector pay claim dispute have begun to negotiate separate agreements with the Carnell minority Liberal government. The picket on the Legislative Assembly has been
Katherine Whitty
Why we're angry
We are 65,000 child-care workers professionally caring for you and your 450,000 children for any of many reasons, all of them justified and none more than the others.
I am fortunate enough to work in a
By Lisa Macdonald
Socialists and other progressive activists from around Australia will be gathering in all capital cities (including Darwin and Canberra) on or around the Easter long weekend to participate in a political feast. The "Democratic
By Damien Cahill
WOLLONGONG — Students from the University of Wollongong distributed the controversial article, "The Art of Shoplifting", in the local mall on March 22. The action was designed to bring attention to the trial of the editors of
SYDNEY — The Chauvel Cinema, in association with the Australian Film Institute, is presenting the second of the 1996 Oz shorts programs — The Shorts Gig. It will screen twice only, on Wednesday, March 27, and Sunday, March 31. This selection
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — After months of negotiations with the Bundaberg Cab Company, cab drivers struck on March 14 in protest at victimisation and discrimination faced by union members. Transport Workers Union drivers later returned to work,
By Trish Corcoran
At a time when business profits are up, women's wages and work conditions are on the way down. According to the head of the Affirmative Action Agency, women and their dependent children make up 70% of those living in poverty.
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