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End of the Keating myth
pensions and the vote for women. The secret ballot was invented in Australia. "What sort of a peculiar ... a prize destroyed in the most spectacular redistribution of wealth since the second world war. The result ... Australia, as Keating has done, into an economic policy that depends on unemployment. And your writer thinks ...
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Messages to congratulate ΒιΆΉΣ³»'s 1000th issue
war criminal, Peter Reith, ΒιΆΉΣ³» Weekly delivers the real news on politics, the environment, ... and a gun on the shoulder. In the decade-long war that followed, Janadesh lost its leader and editor, ... things you did was put me on the streets in peoplesβ faces. In contact with people I otherwise would ...
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Yaluritja Clarrie Isaacs β a lifetime of activism
Alliance, condemning the government's treatment of refugees and the looming war on Afghanistan. I last ... BY ANTHONY BENBOW PERTH β On December 2, as the morning sun sparkled from the river's quiet ... surface, more than a hundred people gathered at Gooniniup, the Nyungah women's sacred site, also known ...
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SPAIN: Madrid: capital of glory, capital of infamy
"the capital of glory". On March 11, Madrid again became a martyr city. A cruel terrorist attack ... has left 198 dead and some 1500 wounded. Most of the victims are workers, women and/or youth of the ... be ETA. A campaign of fear The PP has built its electoral campaign on a program of fear: fear of any ...
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PHILIPPINES: Peace Camp opposes Bush's 'second front'
With the Philippines now the "second front" in the US "war on terrorism", ... needs a puppet in this rampart on whom they can rely. The US is using the war against global and even ... Justice, which is popularly referred to as Peace Camp, is thus far the Philippines' broadest anti-war ...
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Labor's conscious vote: Whose conscience counts?
When we vote on drug law reform [or] committing troops to war, we make decisions that will immediately ... legislate in a way that discriminates against women who wish to access fertility services such as IVF ... withstood pressure from more conservative members and parliamentarians to allow a conscience vote on this ...
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FSLN prepares for Nicaraguan elections
autonomous. To prepare policies for the election the Sandinista Congress set up commissions on women, youth, ... [From June 28 to July 21, 13 people from Australia visited Nicaragua on a work-study brigade, meeting ... community movement and Sandinista leaders, visiting many different communities and working on a community ...
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Charles Edward Russell and insurgent journalism
second world war, brainwashed with Cold War ideology, most mainstream journalists became apologists for ... the powerful. It wasn't until the 1960s during the Vietnam War that many mainstream reporters ... β such as Wilfred Burchett, the great Australian correspondent who reported the Vietnam War from behind ...
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IRAQ: Death for oil
organisation's humanitarian mission in Iraq he was first-hand witness to the havoc the sanctions were wreaking on ... time to talk to AMIRA HOWEIDY from the Al-Ahram Weekly about the 10-year long genocidal war still being ... Question: On June 9, the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 1302, which extends the "oil for ...
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Sinn Fein leader in Australia
Civil War by being one of the first IRA divisions to reject partition. Encouraging women leaders is ... participating in politics. Today, "All the women on the executive are there because they are playing real ... were ambushed by Loyalist thugs on Burntollet Bridge. She was shocked as she saw protesters dragged ...
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PAKISTAN: Anti-imperialist rally stops city traffic
Linda Waldron, Lahore On December 6, 2000 protesters participated in an anti-imperialist rally ... members from various districts of Punjab also attended. A 200-strong contingent of women from the Women ... Workers Helpline led the rally, firing up the workers and peasants with slogans to end imperialism, war ...
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'We did not vote for Howard's agenda'
Sarah Stephen On November 16, Lorna Bennie, Lyn Rafferty and Judy Gaskin will be among half ... Rafferty agreed, adding: "This was another Tampa, but this time they played on people's fear ... a year, the three women have been visiting the Villawood detention centre every fortnight. Bennie ...
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NEPAL: Building a new road in Rolpa
which on February 13 celebrated its 10th year, has attracted such little international attention, and ... the diatribe of terrorism. Nepal's civil war is frequently depicted as a struggle between ... a parallel, revolutionary state, with its own army of more than 10,000 men and women equipped with thousands ...
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The chains of the American myth
War II Taiwan. You won't get a lesson in recent Taiwanese history, but the story is fully ... his formal education. The villagers look to him for leadership on the big things beyond their mundane ... mainlanders try to sell the offer to them, ironically on the basis of "national interest". Brain is ...
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Loose Cannons
the Bush administration at UN conferences on the rights of women. Role model "He's so green. ... Washington's "war on terrorism". Broadminded "To find out the title of this show, call..." ... commenting on the emerging alliance between reactionary Islamic governments, US Christian organisations and ...
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Puerto Rican nationalist radiated, says family
experiments on humans. The US government recently admitted that these experiments had occurred since World War ... the 1950s after heading an attack with a group of Nationalist Puerto Ricans on Blair House in ... presented a resolution on January 18 demanding the US make public the names of those affected. Both ...
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Protests over Bougainville
giant CRA, in Brisbane on February 10. The protest, organised by the Bougainville Freedom Movement as ... protest was held outside Parliament House in Canberra on February 9 for Wingti's arrival. Chanting ... Wingti's war against the people of Bougainville. Sean Kennan, an organiser of the protest, commented, ...
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BRITAIN: The great charade
our language into a paean of cliches and lies about the "war on terrorism" Β when the most ... played out a great game for the domination of the world". There is no war on terrorism; it is the ... resolution calling on governments to observe international law, is unmentionable. "In the war against ...
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Australia's political history comes to life
screens, hands-on and static displays, models and soundscapes. There are period costumes that both adults ... periods and events such as the Great Depression, the world wars, the Petrov affair and the 1967 referendum ... on Aboriginal inclusion in the census count, the dismissal of Labor PM Gough Whitlam in 1975, and the ...
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... and ain't i a woman?: The best Barbie of them all
reason for a feminist interest in the goings-on in Wichita, Kansas. During the Gulf War, it was the site ... and make sure the clock winds back constantly on women's liberation") it was more like, ... titanic clash of hair gels? Well, two women identified respectively as the star of I dream of Jeannie and ...
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Saudi Arabia β the West's favourite dictatorship
degrading treatment in the Saudi criminal justice systemβ. The discussion also focused on human rights ... human rights initiatives was barely noticed. The refugee crisis has brought other wars, particularly the ... war in Syria, closer to home. Moreover, Saudi Arabia is a key ally of the Western powers, whose ...
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1968:Year of hope
liberation movement broke the political back of the US war machine and brought down a US president. It was ... bringing about a revolution in an advanced capitalist country. The women's movement and the black ... power movement made great strides forward. There were massive protests on a worldwide scale, not only in ...
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PHILIPPINES: Asian Peace Alliance formed
was called by several organisations as a response to the US "war on terror" and the ... BY MAX LANE MANILA Β On September 1, an assembly of about 100 peace activists, including more than ... increased US military presence and activity in the Asian region, including the war in Afghanistan. The APA ...
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PHILIPPINES: Moro human rights appeal
MANILA β The following is abridged from an appeal issued on April 10 by Erwin M. Gaerlan, ... a stop to the worsening war situation in Mindanao between the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and ... the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). The war situation intensified at the beginning of this year ...
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Bringing back the rage
many full-page spreads featuring exploitative photos of women. The magazine did not represent the art ... or the artists involved, but focused on the sponsorship. These following art installations were shown ... white photographs taken by Daniel Palmer of unknown faces on Barrack St in Perth. It is an exhibition ...