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Law students partially condemn HECS

By Emily McCosker and Marina Cameron Law students at Sydney, NSW and Melbourne universities, and the University of Technology, Sydney, have condemned the federal government's proposals to introduce differential HECS and lower the repayment

Write on: Letters to the editor

Tibet Norm Dixon's article about Tibet [GLW #248] left me feeling weird. In the seventies it was so difficult to get anyone to be sympathetic to the Tibetans plight. There was so much Chinese propaganda issued to cover their actions. The

and ain't i a woman?: Women and family law

and ain't i a woman?: Women and family law In 1994, The Australian Law Reform Commission Report on Equality Before the Law: Women's Access to the Legal System was released. In 600 written and oral submissions, women documented their desperate

Students want a fighting union

By Ruth Ratcliffe BRISBANE — In recent elections at the University of Queensland, Voice, the Whitlam Institute team, won control of the student union from the incumbent Liberal team. Other tickets included Kathy Newnam and Ruth Ratcliffe on the

Ultraleft sects lecture Indonesian activists

By Doug Lorimer In the wake of the July 27 riots in Jakarta against the military's assault on the offices of Megawati Sukarnoputri's liberal-democratic Indonesian Democratic Party (PDI) and the subsequent crackdown by the Suharto autocracy against

AAFI forced to close electoral office

By Dave Wright PENRITH — Around 30 people rallied at Penrith Plaza in Sydney's west to protest the recent spate of racist attacks against migrants and Aboriginal people, particularly from Pauline Hanson and Graeme Campbell. The rally, organised

Thought-provoking reply to Helen Garner

Generation fBy Virginia TrioliMinerva, 1996Reviewed by Jo Brown The inspiration for Generation f was the 1995 book The First Stone written by Helen Garner. Garner attacked two women at Ormond College in Melbourne who took the college master to court

Empowering women

At the end of this week, women around Australia will march to Reclaim the Night, to protest violence against women and demand their right to participate in society fully and in safety. The capitalist media usually promote the idea that women's

Gay love, homophobia and class

Gay love, homophobia and class Beautiful ThingWritten by Jonathon HarveyDirected byHettie McDonaldReviewed by Kath Gelber I felt compelled to write more about the film Beautiful Thing after reading Castellani's review (GLW #250), not because the

Turning back the clock

By Bill Mason BRISBANE — The Queensland Coalition government has launched an attack on the state's anti-corruption watchdog, the Criminal Justice Commission, in a bid to return to the "good old days" when former premier Joh Bjelke Petersen and a

Censorship and heavy metal

By Natasha Sinnet Since it emerged in the 1970s, heavy metal music has been blamed for everything from inciting riots to murder. Earlier this year, the media blamed Australian teenage band Silverchair for allegedly instigating a triple murder in

PNGDF may be linked to Miriung assassination

By Norm Dixon The pro-independence Bougainville Interim Government has denied involvement in the murder of the Port Moresby-appointed premier of Bougainville, Theodore Miriung. BIG spokespeople believe that, in the light of tensions between Miriung