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... and ain't i a woman?: Harassment by other names

Harassment by other names March 31, in case you missed it, was Secretary's Day. Yet another invention of the creative capitalist market mind which serves to guilt-trip people into buying commodities to make someone else — in this case the

Action updates

The Campaign Against Sex Tourism and Trafficking in Filipino Women (CAST) is conducting an exposure/study tour to the Philippines from June 19 to July 4. The objectives of the tour are to expose the participants to the realities of the sex trade

Political statements without trying

By Deepa Fernandes While much is said, written and debated about the current situation of Aboriginal affairs, nothing makes as much of a statement as the opening of the Mangkaja print exhibition at the Australian Print Workshop in Melbourne on

TV highlights

Actively Radical TV: The Unteachables — Looks at why young people in inner Sydney are pushed out of the education system. CTS (UHF 31, Sydney), Friday, April 6, 10.30pm (repeated Saturday, April 8, 10.30pm). Movie: Mystery Train (1989) — Jim

A forgotten fighter

Harold Written and directed by Steve Thomas A Flying Carpet Films production ABC TV, Sunday, April 9, 8.30pm Reviewed by Norm Dixon This intriguing documentary reveals the story of Harold Blair, one of Australia's greatest opera singers

Aboriginal health service gains emergency funding

By Deb Sorensen Darwin — Danila Dilba Aboriginal Health Clinic, Darwin's only Aboriginal-run and controlled clinic, has been given temporary reprieve from an ongoing funding crisis. The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Commission (ATSIC)

Hello. Is there anyone in there?

Comment by Dave Riley Roger Clarke's brave attempt in the pages of Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly to encourage us not to forsake the Labor Party has contributed nothing new to a perennial debate. Roger's gall is his attempt to sweeten the bitter pill of

NSW elections a blow to the major parties

By Lisa Macdonald SYDNEY — The people of NSW gave a decisive thumbs down to "politics as usual" in the state election on March 25. The 1.5% swing away from the Liberal-National Coalition, the fact that the ALP just managed to limp over the

Fighting for the environment in French Polynesia

GABRIEL TETIARAHI is the national coordinator of the French Polynesian organisation Hiti Tau, which brings together 40 non-government groups working on environmental, sovereignty and social issues. He recently visited Australia, where he provided a

Write on: letters to the editor

Pity the Swiss If Paul Keating is looking for reasons for the massive swing against the Labor Party in the Canberra by-election he will find that people are concerned about the government's superficial approach to the environment, the stripping

CIS populations: 'Shift to capitalism a mistake!'

By Renfrey Clarke MOSCOW — Ask a citizen of the former Soviet Union what he or she thinks of "the market", and in well over half the cases, the answer is likely to be something unprintable. Go on to ask what ordinary people can now do to

'Cynical' retreat on old-growth forests

By Pip Hinman "Those with a conscience in the ALP will find it hard to defend the indefensible", was how WA Green Senator Dee Margetts summed up the federal government's forests package, announced on March 30. Margetts told Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly