By Lisa Macdonald
"Foetal Welfare and the Law", a report released late last month, stems from an inquiry commissioned in 1993 by the Australian Medical Association. It followed several incidents in which women who were about to give birth had
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Land rights first
The ACTU has launched a campaign to take the republican issue out of the hands of the academics and the lawyers. So the unions want a say in the republican issue. That's a very good idea. They should have a say and so should
Budget limits education access
By Francesca Davidson
The projections for higher education in the 1995 budget signal the ALP government's commitment to privatisation, and hence reduced access to education.
Access to Austudy will be
By Kim Linden
Around 100 people attended a May 1 forum on the trafficking of Burmese women and girls in Thailand held at the Overseas Services Bureau in Fitzroy, Melbourne. The forum was the first leg of the "Traffic of Pain" speaking tour and
By Andrew Watson
BRISBANE — Some 200 building workers, members of other unions and supporters of the locked-out Mt Isa mineworkers picketed the headquarters of Mount Isa Mines Ltd in Ann Street here on May 12.
Members of the Construction,
By Lisa Macdonald
On May 29, the Senate will debate the federal government's Racial Hatred Bill 1994 (RHB). According to the attorney general, Michael Lavarch, in his second reading speech to the House of Representatives, the bill "fills a gap
Prostitutes Speak Out
Produced and directed by Phyllis Jane Rose
Reviewed by Penny Saunders
Attending the May Day presentation of "Prostitutes Speak Out" at the Lion Arts Centre in Adelaide allowed me to catch up with long-time acquaintance
Solidarity messages
The following letters were sent to the MIM workers last week.
To Stephen Hardwick, MIM workers picket line
The Shearers and Rural Workers Union (SRWU) wishes to express full support and solidarity with workers
Ghost of the 1964 dispute
By Jim McIllroy
As the MIM conflict develops, many have recalled comparisons with the great 1964-65 strike, which lasted more than six months.
The Mt Isa strike of 30 years ago split the town, and almost
Bye Bye Love
Directed by Sam Weisman
Starring Matthew Modine, Randy Quaid and Paul Reiser
Reviewed by Barry Healy
Bye Bye Love could be the Four Weddings and a Funeral of 1995 — a well-played comedy piece that mixes poignancy about
Greenpeace stops Israeli boat from dumping toxics
Greenpeace activists on board the ship MV Greenpeace on the morning of May 7 prevented the Israeli vessel Aribel from dumping toxic sludge into the Mediterranean, two kilometres off the Israeli
Tarkine campaign escalates
By Ben Courtice
HOBART — More than 150 people marched through the city streets to Parliament House on May 9 to protest against the road construction through the Tarkine wilderness and the arrests of protesters
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