By Sarah Peart
It was the weekend after I attended an inspiring Reclaim The Night march against domestic violence that I picked up the October issue of the Australian music magazine Rolling Stone. It contained an interview with Prodigy (the
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Construction in Progress comes to Melbourne
Melbourne will host Construction in Progress VI — The Bridge next March. The project, initiated by the International Artists' Museum, is an event of international significance in which some 90
Protests against forest agreement
By Tony Iltis
HOBART — The signing of the Tasmanian Regional Forest Agreement (RFA) on November 8 provoked a week of angry protests by environmentalists. The RFA gives $70 million to the logging industry;
UN resolution backs end to US blockade of Cuba
By Deepa Fernandes
HAVANA — For the sixth time in six years, the United Nations General Assembly on November 5 overwhelmingly passed a resolution calling for the end to Washington's more than
By Lachlan Malloch
SYDNEY — Left-wing student activists narrowly lost the Macquarie University Students' Council (MUSC) elections held on October 27-29. Ten votes and one councillor were all that separated the left and right factions after
ANC Youth League bids for private prisons
By Norm Dixon
The African National Congress Youth League has put a new spin on the slogan "From the politics of liberation to the politics of reconstruction". According to the November 8
Debate on post-Kernot politics
BRISBANE — Thirty people gathered at the Resistance Centre on October 29 to hear a discussion about how to build a progressive alternative to the two-party system in the wake of Cheryl Kernot's defection to the
By Bronwen Beechey
MELBOURNE — Around 40,000 workers gathered on November 12 for the second Victorian Trades Hall Council-organised rally against the state government's proposed changes to the WorkCover scheme. The crowd marched to Parliament
By Jackie Moon
MELBOURNE — The Victorian Department of Education has introduced a program to train around 100 year 10-12 students completing the Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE) in the multi-national hamburger chain, McDonald's. David
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The Mask of Motherhood: How Mothering Changes Everything and Why We Pretend it Doesn'tBy Susan MaushartRandom House345 pp., $17.95 Review by Pip Hinman
At last! A book on mothering which isn't a how-to, but a how-is. Susan Maushart's The Mask of
Protesters condemn Shell
During Sydney-wide protests against the Shell oil company on November 10, environmentalists in the Lane Cove River Valley joined Friends of the Earth to picket the Shell service station on Epping Road, in John Howard's
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