By Peter Gellert
MEXICO CITY — A week after Mexico's worst storm in recorded history, the country's Pacific coast has barely started picking itself out of the rubble and destruction left in the wake of Hurricane Paulina. The hurricane lashed the
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Indonesia: anti-Suharto protests grow
A few Australian foreign correspondents in Jakarta, such as the Sydney Morning Herald's Louise Williams, are writing about "the mood turning" in Indonesia. 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly asked MAX LANE, national
By Jon Land
The defection of Cheryl Kernot has posed the role of the "alternative" to Labor and the Coalition much more sharply for the Democrats and the Australian Greens. Greens leader Senator Bob Brown stated the day after Kernot left the
Conference discusses abortion rights
By Margarita Windisch
MELBOURNE — The Royal Women's Hospital Pregnancy Advisory Service, in conjunction with the Abortion Providers' Federation of Australia, hosted a conference on October 11-12 which
Our greedy seniors
The bold offensive that the government is waging against the elderly is to be applauded. What sort of nation would it be if there wasn't someone to defend us from these greedy bastards?
As Tim Fischer, a vocal leader of the
A woman's touch
It seems that these days women can do anything. Cheryl Kernot can leave the Democrats, transform the Labor Party and possibly even become the next PM. Senator Natasha Stott-Despoja can exert her youthful charm as the probable
By Kylie Moon and Sarah Stephen
Earlier this century, rape was something nobody talked about. If your husband forced himself upon you, it was your duty as a wife to comply. If you were raped by someone you didn't know, you were likely to be
CPSU officialdom
In the lead-up to the 24-hour strike on October 17 by CPSU members in Telstra, the actions of the Northern Territory branch officials in Darwin revealed a sad state of affairs in the trade union movement.
The week before the
Police called to community barbecue
By Sue Bull
QUEANBEYAN — The Henderson Road Residents Action Group were forced to hold their October 19 community barbecue on the tiny nature strip between the abandoned railway goods yard and the busy road.
Social justice prize exposes Labor
By Arun Pradhan
PERTH — This year's Michael O'Rourke Prize for Social Justice and Equity was awarded to Anne O'Callaghan at a ceremony at the Curtin University Centre for Aboriginal Studies on October 17.
By Graham Matthews
After Cheryl Kernot's resignation from the Senate, the Australian Democrats quickly appointed Andrew Bartlett to fill the casual vacancy. Bartlett, the former Queensland president of the party, told 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly that he does
International campaign to free Nigerian unionists
The International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers' Unions launched a campaign of "targeted action" on October 20 against Nigerian oil exports to win the release of detained
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