Postmodernism
Intellectual games, like the debate about whether Marx is scientific or Post Modernism is radical, would have been more appropriate in past leisured times. To those interested, it might prove that human behaviour is subject to the
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By Anthony Brown
The myth that Asian women are submissive, sexually willing and economically dependent may be contributing to the high rate of domestic violence in Filipina-Australian relationships.
One of the Melbourne lawyers involved in
I'm going to use a word you never thought I'd use. I'll be describing something that can get you arrested. I'm going to tell you the dirtiest word you'll hear. It's filthy!
Remember, you didn't read it here — not in this column, nor in the
By Tom Flanagan
A federal Liberal MP is playing a key role in the mobilisation of bigoted right-wingers in defence of Tasmania's anti-gay laws. Chris Miles, MHR for Braddon and opposition spokesperson for schools, vocational education and
SA push for federal awards
By Anthony Thirlwall
ADELAIDE — South Australia's 20,000 teachers are looking to the federal award system in an attempt to protect their wages and conditions and to prevent retrenchments.
The move follows a
By Julia Perkins
On the evening of June 13, a worker at the Bankstown Youth Refuge was murdered. Neena Bisen, a 34-year-old youth worker with experience in India and the United States, was allegedly stabbed to death by two girls, aged 15 and 17,
There are streets in a Newcastle suburb where children are forbidden to live because of the health threat from industrial pollution. The company responsible is Pasminco, much in the news in Tasmania for its ocean dumping of industrial wastes —
By Lisa Bryant
SYDNEY — When the Hawke government suggested an Australia-wide identity system (the Australia Card), public opposition forced it to abandon the plan because of fears of potential misuse of the data collected for the card. Yet a
Comment by Jorge Jorquera
The initial motivation for this comment came from reading articles on South Africa in Socialist Worker, the paper of the International Socialist Organisation. These articles don't vary much, at least not in theme, which
Brazilian unionists murdered
International protests are being called for after the brutal assassination of two Brazilian unionists on June 12. Rosa Hernandes, a leader of the struggles of the agricultural workers of the region, and Jose Luis
Clinton attacks the victims
US President Bill Clinton has just announced draconian welfare "reforms" which are clearly racist and which reinforce reactionary attitudes in the area of social policy.
In a polemic against single mothers,
On their next visit to the polling booths, New Zealanders will vote under a new, more democratic system for their national parliament.
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