Shared space #3
By Brandon Astor Jones
"The vilest deeds like prison weedsBloom well in prison air:It is only what is good in manThat wastes and withers there ..."Oscar Wilde, from The Ballad of Reading Gaol This is the third in a series of
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... and ain't I a woman?: No sister of mine
The clearing of Carmen Lawrence of charges of lying under oath in relation to her evidence at the Marks Royal Commission in 1995 has been greeted with a cheer by many feminists. Lawrence's imminent
Keeping Marley's spirit alive
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Review by Norm Dixon
It is possible that Governor Tom Ridge will sign a new death warrant for Mumia Abu-Jamal soon, according to the Philadelphia Daily News. The move is motivated by the state's desire to force Abu-Jamal's legal team to file for a writ of habeas corpus
By Sue Bull
CANBERRA — Since July 20, the Department of Education and Community Services (DECS) has made primary schools suffer. Twenty-nine school bursars have been stood down, one at a time, under the "lockout" laws in the federal Workplace
By Jonathan Singer
In 1969, hundreds of thousands of Australian workers struck in opposition to the penal sanctions in laws against unions taking industrial action and in defence of Clarrie O'Shea, a union official fined and jailed under these
By Leigh Hughes and Nick Soudakoff
CANBERRA — The Productivity Commission's recent research paper, "Productivity and the Structure of Employment", revealed that teenagers' percentage of the work force had fallen from 10.6% to 6.7%, while 20- to
By Sean Healy
SYDNEY — The NSW coroner's report into the death in custody of a young Aboriginal man, James Brindle, has highlighted the urgent need for alternatives to incarceration for minor offences. Yet politicians are strengthening their "law
Let's hear it for fart jokes
I shared a page in last week's Â鶹ӳ» Weekly with a review composed by the regular GLW scribe, Jim Green. Indeed, his and my efforts for that edition settled on the page column to column — he was allocated
Indonesian trade union leaders to tour
By Pip Hinman
SYDNEY — Plans are well under way for the national speaking tour, from August 8, of Indonesian trade union leader Dita Sari. Dita's tour, organised by Action in Solidarity with Indonesia and
MELBOURNE — More than 600 women gathered here for the Network of Women Students Australia (NOWSA) conference on July 16-20. NOWSA is the largest national gathering of student feminists in Australia. As such, it is an important forum for discussing how to rebuild the women's liberation movement.
This year's conference included many constructive debates on topics such as abortion rights, prostitution and issues for working women.
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