Woman wins pregnancy discrimination case
By Robyn Marshall
In 1997, Colette Johnson, then 28 years old, was hired by the Ipswich office of Gloria Marshall Australia, the infamous weight-loss firm. Three weeks later she found out she was pregnant.
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By Max Lane
On June 25, the Jakarta daily newspaper Kompas reported that the Indonesian minister of defence and the commander in chief of the armed forces, General Wiranto, had stated that the government would take firm action against anybody
Cancel all Third World debt!
By Zanny Begg
In 1992, a memo by the World Bank's chief economist and vice-president Lawrence Summers was leaked to the media. In it Lawrence asked, "Shouldn't the World Bank be encouraging more migration of the dirty
By Sue Boland
Membership ballots to determine party policy and select party leadership — surely these measures guarantee party members' control over elected politicians? It seems not: the Australian Democrats have such a structure but have
By Emily Citkowski
YOGYAKARTA — More that 80 Indonesian farm workers and organisers
met here on June 25-27 to re-establish the National Peasants' Union (STN
— Sarakat Tani Nasional). This was the STN's second congress. The founding
East Timor delegation calls for solidarity
By Vannessa Hearman
MELBOURNE — Belinda Morieson, branch secretary of the Australian Nurses Federation, and John Cummins, Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union construction division branch
Pakistani workers condemn war
By Farooq Suleria
LAHORE, Pakistan — On June 25, 500 workers attending the annual general meeting of Itehad (Unity) Carpet Industry Workers Union of Pakistan condemned the war efforts of the ruling classes of both
Gordonstone miners still 'standing tall'
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — The miners' union is considering a High Court appeal after the Federal Court ruled on June 25 that, while sacked mineworkers at the Gordonstone mine in central Queensland were
Solidarity or a sliding scale of oppression?
By Bronwyn Jennings
The way forward for women's liberation — or even if there is a need to keep fighting for collective liberation — continues to be debated within feminism. In recent years, there
Reflection's hard truth
By Brandon Astor Jones
"The violence of today's society has little to do with the shunning of God and much more to do with a glorification of guns, [intolerance] and ... a lack of parental supervision." — Jeff Joseph
Isaiah Berlin: A LifeBy Michael IgnatieffChatto & Windus, 1998. 356 pp., $49.95 (hb) Review by Phil Shannon
Since the death of Sir Isaiah Berlin in 1997, there has been a publishing flurry of Berlin's philosophical and historical essays,
By Jill Hickson
DILI - In June, three 10 year-old boys found a grenade in their playground in Dili, the capital of East Timor. They pulled the pin and it exploded. Two of the boys were blow to pieces. The third was rushed to the church clinic in
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