The worth of a girl
Women have come to expect rougher then usual handling from a sexist judiciary and legal system. The recent outrage over (in)Justice Bollen's comments on what constitutes "sufficient battering" to provoke self-defence
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Friends on the Road
Bhundu Boys
Cooking Vinyl through Festival
Victims
Lucky Dube
Dolphin through BMG
Reviewed by Norm Dixon
Over the past five years, African music has become increasingly popular in this country. Two of the
Jeff material
"He could never shut up." — Victorian Premier Jeff Kennett, caught by TV cameras opposing the candidacy of former PM Malcolm Fraser for Liberal Party president.
Economic rationalism
Earlier this year Victorian Premier Jeff
By Melanie Sjoberg
ADELAIDE — There's a joke going around that says Mabo stands for "Money Available for Barristers Only", Kathy Whimp, project officer with the Aboriginal Legal Rights Service told a Politics in the Pub forum attended by
By Catherine S. Beacham
When US naval personnel formally withdrew from their Philippine base at Subic Bay last November, they left behind far more than the unsightly neocolonial infrastructure of their postwar militarisation policies.
Not sexism
I take issue with Brandon Astor Jones' contention that "The collective silence and total disregard for the lives and human dignity of men in prison is 'sexism' in one of its most insidious forms." (GLW #110).
The shocking
US/UN out of Somalia!
The United Nations/United States "peacekeeping" mission in Somalia stands exposed for the grisly farce it is.
In a joint statement addressed last week to the UN Secretary General, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, 26
By Ray Fulcher
MELBOURNE — The new leadership of the State Public Services Federation (Victoria) has accepted the Kennett government's industrial program of individual contracts. The move was welcomed by Premier Jeff Kennett and Trades Hall
By Cindy Callender
Over 360,000 pigs are raised for slaughter in Victoria each year, most under factory farming conditions. Pigs, whose intelligence is comparable to that of dogs, cannot fulfil their needs in intensive piggeries.
Grossly
Jimmy Cliff: 'No peace without justice'
By Norm Dixon
Jimmy Cliff is today the standard bearer of politically conscious Jamaican reggae. He came to fame as part of the classic generation of reggae freedom fighters led by the now-deified
By Liz McMurrich
PERTH — More than 3000 Aborigines and non-Aboriginal people marched and rallied on here August 13 to demand recognition of Aboriginal land rights.
Speakers included Aboriginal activists Ted Wilkes, Clarrie Issacs,
By Sean Malloy and Doug Lorimer
"The complexity of the Israel/Palestine conflict is that at its root is a conflict between two fundamentally legitimate aspirations", Vivienne Porzsolt claimed in Green Left Weekly No. 110. This assertion is
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