Winning elections by killing prisoners
Comment by Karen Fletcher
Between 1980 and 1998, the Australian prison population on any given day rose from an average of 9600 to an average of 19,906. The vast majority of prisoners serve sentences of less
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By Jeremy Smith
The federal Coalition government has set its sights on the National Tertiary Education Industry Union as part of its anti-union offensive. The NTEU has suspected for some time that the government will come after it. Industrial
Women's liberation discussed in Wollongong
By Nicole Hilder
WOLLONGONG — On November 6, Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly held a women's liberation forum titled "It's Time to Get Angry Again". Dr Margaret Perrott from the Democratic Socialist Party outlined
By Natalie Zirngast
High school students will walk out on November 30 in Seattle to join a protest against the World Trade Organisation (see Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly page 20). The protest is being organised by the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and
Defence Department opposes nuclear dump
By Molly Wishart
Chiefs of the three defence forces and the secretary of the federal Department of Defence have written to the government expressing opposition to hosting a nuclear waste dump on land used
The world cop and Afghan women
"I think that what has happened to the women and children of Afghanistan is atrocious. The first lady and I had an event at the White House to highlight that on Human Rights Day, including having two Afghan women
By Peter Boyle
SYDNEY — The Carr Labor government of NSW has passed legislation making it almost impossible for political smaller parties without a lot of money to run in state elections. All parties will have to pay $2000 to register and submit
By Eva Cheng
Despite extraordinarily brutal oppression, India's working people are resisting the new attacks that the ruling coalition, regrouped after the October election, is seeking to impose. The offensive, loaded with privatisation and
Win for pay equity in Canada
By Margaret Allum
In a monumental victory for women's rights, the Canadian government agreed on October 29 to implement the July 1998 findings of a human rights tribunal which ruled that there existed a discrepancy in
By Anthony Brown
Despite much talk about a youth "crime wave", statistics show that youth crime is not out of control and that young people themselves are often the victims of crime. It is true that most criminal offenders are young people. The
In Dili, more than 10,000 East Timorese marched through the streets on November 12 in a solemn commemoration of friends and relatives killed in the 1991 massacre by Indonesian troops at the Santa Cruz cemetery. It was the first such commemoration
The Susan G. Komen race for the cure
By Brandon Astor Jones
I have before me the first page of the D-section of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. It carries a photograph of Atlanta's Piedmont Avenue. From curb to curb it is covered with
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