BY AMANDA LEAHY
ALICE SPRINGS — The "Alice in Wonderland" gay and lesbian festival was held here, March 10-17. Activities included a dance, a film festival, a pool night, a cabaret and a day at the races.
In response, there were numerous
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BY VIV MILEY
The Senate on March 7 passed new legislation which widens the circumstances under which Australian Defence Force reserves can be called out by the defence minister to suppress civil protest actions and strikes.
The legislation, which
BY MARIA VOUKELATOS
SYDNEY — One hundred women wheel 1950s prams, wearing neatly styled hair, respectable knee-length dresses and big smiles on their faces. It sounds like a scene from a B-grade documentary from 40 years ago telling women of the
PARIS — In the last decade France has provided some of the most important examples of workers' capacity to struggle against the power of capital, and in December the small French city of Nice was added to the list of the sites of struggle against
Double standards
Despite having witnessed the mass media hoopla around International Women's Day this year — celebrating how far we've come and women who have "made it" — I wasn't overly surprised to be informed at a recent job interview that
BY BILL MASON
BRISBANE — Some 37 years after they were forced from their homes at gunpoint by police acting on the orders of the Queensland National Party government, residents of the far-north Aboriginal settlement of Mapoon have achieved an
BY LINDA WALDRON
MELBOURNE — Five East Timorese solidarity activists have been found guilty of "public order" offences for burning the flag of the Indonesian consulate in September 1999, two days after the people of East Timor voted for
BY SUE BOLAND
As recently as December, most journalists predicted that Prime Minister John Howard's federal Coalition government would be assured of victory at the next federal election while federal Labor opposition leader Kim Beazley was a
BY TAMARA PEARSON
SYDNEY — John Howard faces little chance of re-election if his reception in Sydney's western suburbs is anything to go by — the Prime Minister, wearing his trademark stupid grin, was accosted by 150 demonstrators when he held
BY EVA CHENG
Public anger against escalating corruption, smuggling, tax evasion, fee extortions and other forms abuses of power by Communist Party officials found expression among the delegates in the traditionally uncontroversial annual sessions
BY NORM DIXON
The United States government, at the urging of the big Western drug corporations, is attempting to prevent Brazil expanding its production of cheap "generic" versions of patented anti-AIDS medicines. If Washington and the drug lords
Australia's Bid for the Atomic BombBy Wayne Reynolds Melbourne University Press, 2000218pp, $32.95(pb)
REVIEW BY JIM GREEN
It has been known for many years that Australian governments considered, and pursued, the development of nuclear weapons
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