BY BRONWYN POWELL
While we might now make up half this country's university population, it's been a long, tough struggle for women to get decent access to tertiary education — and it still is. There was first a battle, more than a century ago, to
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People, get ready for S11
BY JORGE JORQUERA
MELBOURNE — Many trade unions, community groups, student associations, non-government organisations (NGOs) and even churches have declared an interest in turning the World Economic Forum's September
Bougainville shows its courage and community
An Evergreen IslandFrontyard FilmsMade by Mandy King and Fabio Cavadini Showing Tuesday, August 1, 7pm at the Side On Café, 83 Parramatta Road, Annandale, Sydney REVIEW BY MARK ABBERTON
In 1989,
Wanted: your videos of protest
Undercurrents, the British-based alternative media group, wants your videos for a new series of programs, Undercurrents Global Views 2000, focussing on "international direct action and diverse global issues". "Get
No support for US militarism!
The Australian government's support for "baby Star wars" — the US government's proposed National Missile Defence (NMD) system — must be opposed.
Much of the criticism of NMD has focused on the stupidity of the
Secret police state laws revealed
BY MARGARET ALLUM
SYDNEY — The Olympic Games to be held in September have given the New South Wales Labor government the opportunity to quietly introduce legislation that gives police and security officers
Write on: Letters to the editor
Germaine Greer
I couldn't agree more with most of Mary Merkenich's article (GLW, July 12) on Germaine Greer's book The Female Eunuch.
When I read it years ago, I was a 47-year-old housewife and was learning what
Networker: Negative for capitalists
Negative for capitalists
Investment guru Warren Buffet is used to making large sums of money for investors in his Berkshire Hathaway company. At the company's annual meeting at the end of April he announced:
Memo — Re: Globalisation
Over there, people live in garbage tips. Over there, you work for next to nothing. Over there, life is cheap. The root problem over there is (a) there's too many of them over there, or (b) they're not over here.
PACIFIC: 'We want to be nuclear free and independent'
The failure of another United States missile test at Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands highlights the folly of the new arms race in space, notes the Suva-based Pacific Concerns Resource
SYRIA: Baath Party renounces socialist agenda
The ruling Syrian Baath Party held its ninth convention on June 17 to appoint Hafez al-Assad's oldest surviving son, Bashar, as its new general secretary, thus paving the way for his official election
At least one protester was killed, more than 100 were injured and 57 were arrested when Indonesian security forces attacked an 800-strong protest in South Sumatra on July 20. The detainees were beaten in jail. The action was organised by the National
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