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The trophy wife It's well known that no warm, well-rounded human being would ever be a successful capitalist politician. You'd have to be a few sandwiches short of a picnic to get into the game in the first place. That's what makes it
Handy reference on Indonesia A Dictionary of Indonesian History Since 1900 By G. B. Clancy Sydney: Sunda Publications. 236 pp. $15.00 Reviewed by Max Lane This is a modest but quite good publication. It will be particularly useful
A world of facts Third World Guide 1993/94 Instituto del Tercer Mundo 631 pp. $60. Reviewed by Sean Malloy "The World as seen by the Third World" notes the Third World Guide on the cover. The Third World Guide was first published
By Greg Peters STOCKHOLM — The Swedish government has landed in one of its biggest crises to date with plans to build a permanent road and rail link over the resund to Denmark. This engineering monsterpiece, intended as a symbol of new and
Comment by Teresa Dowding There was so much that frustrated and angered me in Susan Barley's article ("Child-care and promises", GLW March 10) that I felt compelled to answer some of her assertions. As a working mother of one child, I am
By Michael Rafferty The 1980s have been called the decade of the femocrat. In the 1980s, women began to move through the management ranks of government departments and many large companies. Quite apart from the new middle class of "sisters in
Black deaths protest By Sean Pybus HOBART — Groups including Support for Aboriginal Rights Tasmania (SART) gathered on March 2 at the opening ceremony of the state parliament. SART had planned a three-day vigil to pressure the
Abortion picket marks IWD By Freya Pinney BRISBANE — "This demonstrates how so-called pro-lifers value only the life of the foetus and devalue the lives of health workers and women", said Mary Barram, spokesperson for the Women's
By Stephen Robson PERTH — The recent WA state election revealed some quite different attitudes to the issue of preferences among the various alternative candidates. The Australian Democrats dropped their usual policy of an open ticket
Australians for Genocide Party? By Sarah Harris WOLLONGONG — The candidate of the Australians Against Further Immigration Party for the seat of Throsby, David Hughes, has made a novel contribution to the immigration debate. Hughes
'Voters reject GST, anti-union laws' By Bill Mason BRISBANE — "In a highly polarised election, the Australian people have thrown out the GST, the threat to Medicare and the Coalition's anti-union laws", the Democratic Socialist
Parties speak on women's issues By Alison Dellit ADELAIDE — About 50 people packed into the Talbot Hotel on the night of March 10 for a meeting, organised by the Democratic Socialists, to hear and question representatives from the Labor