By Ruth Ratcliffe
BRISBANE — The Queensland minister for health, National Party member Mike Horan, has launched an attack on women's right to abortion. Horan displayed his ultra-right, anti-woman views on the weekend of June 21-22 when
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The Unconscious CivilisationABC Massey LecturesBy John Ralston SaulPenguin, 1995. 208 pp.A Truly Civil SocietyBoyer LecturesBy Eva CoxABC in booklet form or from the ABC web site. Review by Gerry Harant
Since their broadcast on the ABC, a book
No Â鶹´«Ã½ next week
Because so many people involved in the production and distribution of Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly will be in Melbourne for the Resistance conference July 4-6, we are skipping publication for one week. The next Â鶹´«Ã½ will be
New industrial law proposed in SA
By Melanie Sjoberg
ADELAIDE — Some 40 people gathered at the state office of the Department of Industrial Affairs on June 25 to protest against changes to industrial relations legislation. The state
Victorian health dispute still simmering
By Jo Obronschka
MELBOURNE — Victorian public sector nurses voted to end industrial bans, in place since June 12, at a stop-work meeting on June 23. The industrial action forced the state
Lesbians and gay men: still fighting discrimination
By Marina Cameron
SYDNEY — On June 19, NSW independent MP Clover Moore released details of a bill aimed at extending rights to gay, lesbian and unmarried couples which she intends
Affirmative action under attackAffirmative action under attack
Having already made policy changes last October to limit the power of the Affirmative Action Agency to enforce the 1986 Affirmative Action (Equal Employment for Women) Act,
The one eyed nun from hell
The one eyed nun from hell
The Beyond Dependency Conference in New Zealand
The one eyed nun from hellhas come down here to tellus,how to slash the dole,how to sear the soul,how to thrash the poorand
Stonewall speak-out
CANBERRA — Around 20 people attended a speak-out on June 28 organised by Resistance to commemorate the 28th anniversary of the riots at the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City. Speakers addressed the history of
By Lisa Macdonald
Over the last decade, capitalism's efforts to shore up profit rates have resulted in a serious decline in the living conditions of the majority of the world's population. Report after report documents that the gap between rich
50,000 march to back locked-out newspaper workers
By Barry Sheppard
With the support of the national union federation, the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), union activists from around the
Privatisation comes unstuck
SYDNEY — Plans by the Carr Labor government to corporatise, then privatise, the Snowy Mountains hydro-electric scheme have been defeated in the NSW upper house. Peter Wright of the Australian Conservation Foundation
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