Adelaide women organise
By Jane Hope
ADELAIDE — The re-emergence of women's liberation here is taking place in a climate of insecurity for women.
Jobs are being shed rapidly in the state public sector, and the threat of enterprise
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By Craig Cormick
Based on highly reliably international contacts, leaked documents and horoscopes from several TV magazines, Nostradamus' Media Watch presents a highly accurate forecast of events across the globe.
Peace in Somalia
"One would think in a free and reasonable society that these things don't happen." — WA Liberal MLA Wayde Smith, after discovering that police had planted a bug in his home in 1991.
Understanding
"He is a great man — a martyr, not a crook.
By Chris Beale
Thailand's "pro-democracy" government of Prime Minister Chuan is fighting for its life in the face of a comeback by "unusually rich" politicians and destabilising arson attacks.
A super-merger of opposition pro-military
By Ana Kailis
AUCKLAND — The emergence of the Alliance as a credible left force in New Zealand politics has left Labour with nowhere to go. With significant 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ of its traditional working-class constituency now supporting the Alliance,
A sick system
"Disturbing", "scandalous", "disgusting": these are among the long list of adjectives used in Brian Burdekin's report on the human rights of people with mental illness to describe their plight. Yet words are inadequate to paint the
Operation Rescue and other right-wing Christian fundamentalist groups over the last nine years have carried out a campaign of terror and violence against abortions clinics, their staff, especially doctors, and the women who use their services.
By Norm Dixon
"These Men Both Won the Nobel Peace Prize. Only One Deserves It." This was the bitter response of Sunday Nation, South Africa's leading weekly black newspaper, to the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to both Nelson Mandela and
By David Robie
PORT MORESBY — At the rate Pacific urban areas are growing, many are in danger of becoming unsustainable. Some, such as ghettoes like Ebeye and squatter settlements in Port Moresby and Papeete, already are.
But a University
By Jenny Long
SYDNEY — On the afternoon of Sunday, October 17, 30,000 people attended the annual Arabic Festival at Gough Whitlam Park, in Tempe, a southern suburb. The festival was described by the organisers, the Australian Arabic Welfare
BeDevil
Written and directed by Tracey Moffat
At Melbourne's Cinema Nova and Academy and Walker Cinemas in Sydney from October 28
Reviewed by Peter Boyle
The three films that make up BeDevil were shot together in six weeks — on a low
By Marita Mueller
The fall of the Berlin Wall in October 1989 and the reunification of Germany a year later had many consequences for East German women. At reunification East German laws were simply replaced by West German ones, without any
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