The Australian Medical Association and the Colleges of Paediatricians and Obstetricians have commissioned an "Inquiry into Foetal Welfare" by the Faculty of Law at the Australian National University. The primary aim is to determine guidelines of
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Old sexism: new perspective
In the United States, about a year ago, the prisoners at the Georgia Women's Correctional Institute, in Hardwick, Georgia, brought a civil suit against that institution. The prisoners allege that the institute's
Call to 'ground Garuda'
By Chris Spindler
ADELAIDE — On August 6 the Campaign for an Independent East Timor (CIET) held a protest vigil outside Garuda airlines highlighting the gross human rights violations of the Indonesian
Unemployment and NESB
Unemployment, especially for mature aged people who have always had a job, is particularly difficult to cope with; but if you come from a Non-English Speaking Background (NESB) and find it difficult to communicate and
By Dave Riley
Rural Australia, not renowned for subtle language, generated a bumper sticker a few years back. "Eat more meat, you bastards!", it read. "Ten thousand dingoes can't be wrong!"
Crudely put, but the farmers had a point.
By Michael Tardif
Labor promised a "business as usual" education policy at the last federal election, and if current proposed cutbacks are any indication, they intend to remain true to their record. Having already destroyed free education,
By Shush Mula and Shlomo Tsazanah
JERUSALEM — In the centre of the city, children between the ages of 8 and 14 are working in a child slave market. It's the Mahane Yehuda market. The children, residents of East Jerusalem, work there every
Henry Thiagaraj gave the following speech at the World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna in June.
It is in achieving the supreme goal of "all human rights for all" that we bring to the attention of this august body the plight of the 250
The ugly logic of enterprise bargaining
It appears that the Keating government is about to strike a new deal with the ACTU to allow enterprise bargains to be stitched together without unions. At present the Industrial Relations Commission can
Police state powers in PNG
Continued from page 32.
Giving police more repressive powers will not solve the "law and order problem", Brunton added. "The police have very little credibility in PNG because they illegally raid villages, they
By Norm Dixon
SYDNEY — Popo Molefe, a member of the National Working Committee of the African National Congress National Executive Committee and head of the ANC's Election Commission, addressed a meeting of ANC supporters on August 5. He
By Sean Malloy
Palestinian academic, Dr Ilham Abu Ghazaleh, toured Australia recently for the United Church, speaking on a range of issues relating to the occupation of Gaza and the West Bank by Israel. A linguistics professor at Jerusalem's
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