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Abortion is still illegal in most Australian states except when the pregnant woman's life is in danger. The ACT is the only territory or state that has removed abortion from criminal statutes. Abortion laws were liberalised in WA after two
Dale T. McKinley, Johannesburg During the last week of October, a 13-member delegation from the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) arrived in Zimbabwe for a brief "fact-finding mission" that, according to COSATU, was designed to "get a
For the second time in a fortnight, the Miami Dade police have admitted that a stun-gun had been used against a child. In the first incident, on October 20, a six-year-old boy holding a shard of glass was stunned with a Taser. Then, on November 10,
Michael Karadjis Five years after North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) troops entered Kosova, occupation authorities have begun a program of privatisation of state and social enterprises. The surprise is not that NATO and the United Nations
Keep it up When I was in Australia, studying Âé¶¹´«Ã½ Weekly saw me through the days. If you come from a Third World country where politics is still decipherable and you end up in a First World" where politics is over-choreographed and full of
HOBART — More than 100 Aboriginal people and their supporters gathered on the lawns of state parliament on November 17 to support the transfer of three Tasmanian islands to Aboriginal ownership. The state government announced the day before that
According to retired bricklayer Albie Bambridge, "Craig was the first metalworker organiser I trusted". The following is his story. I first met Craig in about 1993 or 94 when I was working at the bottle works in Spotswood. We were doing a complete
Jenny Long, Sydney Preliminary results for the 2004 election for the seven-member executive and 45-member central council of the NSW Public Service Association (PSA) indicate that no single faction will dominate these bodies and that the left-wing
Jon Lamb, Darwin East Arm Wharf is a new sprawling development on the edge of Darwin that is fast becoming the hub of the town's maritime trade. Established in 1999, the site has next to no facilities for seafarers, waterside workers and others who
The Secret Service payed a visit to Boulder High School on November 11, after it heard that students were planning a spoken word performance of Bob Dylan's "Masters of War" at the school's talent show the following night. The school's principal Ron
Rohan Pearce The NBC TV footage of a US marine executing a wounded and unarmed Iraqi resistance fighter in a Fallujah mosque was a rare crack in the facade that Washington, with the complicity of most of the corporate media, has tried to present to
Former Victorian secretary of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union Craig Johnston was jailed on August 27 for 9 months for taking part in an industrial protest in defence of jobs. Former AMWU delegate Steev Mansour explains why he supports