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pregnant, women, sport, Trevor Mudge, Australian Medical Association, Pam Smith, Karen Eustace, United States, foetus, Lynch v Lynch, ALISON DELLIT"> and ain't I a woman: Why Netball Australia got it wrong On June 18, Netball Australia took
The Australian Senate passed the following motion, moved by Australian Greens Senator Bob Brown, on June 19: That the Senate: a) notes the police raid that resulted in the unlawful detention of 32 foreigners (including 20 Australians) attending a
Aggressive earnings management Want to make money but you don't really know how? Not small amounts of money, enough to get you through to the next pay packet or student allowance. Really big amounts of money, enough to impress the stock market. In
By Sophie Williams & Belinda Selke "The shameful events of yesterday had nothing to do with democracy or individual freedoms." That was how NSW Premier Bob Carr described the June 20 trade union blockade of the NSW parliament imposed to stop his
BY SEAN HEALY United States negotiators have taken a hard line in defence of drug companies' patents in a special one-day meeting of the World Trade Organisation on June 20, stating that it would oppose any attempt to weaken the WTO's agreement on
Tuerkan Uzun, the editor and owner of a company which publishes an anti-capitalist newspaper and pamphlets in Turkey, faces prosecution in the country's State Security Court for breaching the country's anti-terrorist law. Uzun has been charged for
REVIEW BY MARGARET ALLUM Me, You, ThemDirected by Andrucha WaddingtonWith Regina Case, Lima Duarte, Stenio Garcia and Luiz Carlos VasconcelosScreened at the Sydney Film Festival, June 6-22 If you saw Central Station, you'll have an idea of the
BY SEAN HEALY If you've gotten used to the feel of the velvet glove around your throat, then get ready to kiss it good-bye — because if events in Gothenburg, Sweden, are anything to go by, the steel fist is making a comeback. The shootings of
"Before S11, I was just getting a taste of the extent to which the planet and its inhabitants have been hurt. S11 was a taste of something better: people, lots of people joining together for the common good, not individual gain. That was symbolic of
BY CHRISTOPHER PERKINS WOLLONGONG — "We got conned", South Coast Labor Council secretary Arthur Rorris told council delegates at a June 22 meeting to discuss the campaign against the New South Wales government's attempt to dismantle workers'
BY SARAH PEART MELBOURNE — At its June 18 meeting, the O3 to CHOGM Alliance unanimously decided to organise an S11-style three-day blockade of the Commonwealth Business Forum from October 3 to 5. The CBF is meeting in Melbourne before the
On June 6, dozens of Israeli settlers entered Luban a-Sharqiya and a-Sawiya, two Palestinian villages in the Nablus district of the West Bank, both of which are under complete Israeli security control, and burned agricultural fields, a hothouse, a