Rachida, an Algerian mother
SBS. Tuesday, March 14, 8.30pm
Reviewed by Jennifer Thompson
This French documentary, made in 1994, captures many of the terrible difficulties and choices facing ordinary Algerians today. Rachida and her seven
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By Pip Hinman
In fear of the political consequences, federal cabinet has been postponing a decision on whether 76 sensitive areas of old-growth forests will be logged. Cabinet is due to make a decision on March 6.
The timber industry lobby
By Anne-Marie Donnelly
and Brendan Greenhill
BRISBANE — The Queensland Criminal Justice Commission decided late on Friday, March 3, not to charge the "Pinkenba Six" with official misconduct after they were cleared of criminal charges in
WA teachers fight for wage claim
By Robert Graham
PERTH — State school teachers in WA have launched work bans on voluntary after-hours activities in support of a 20% pay increase. A 600-strong mass meeting of the State School Teachers
Aid money for logging in PNG
SYDNEY — Australia is planning to channel millions of dollars into training Papua New Guinean forestry officers instead of taking measures to halt the alarming rate of logging in that country, according to four PNG
International Women's Day
By Kath Gelber
Every year women and their supporters mobilise in their thousands in Australia, and in their millions around the world, to celebrate International Women's Day. IWD is more than a celebration,
Chechen government appeal
The following statement was received by the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation (UNPO) General Secretariat on February 27 from the government of the Chechen Republic Ichkeria.
The Government of the
Recovery without jobs for Victorian women
By Margarita Windisch
MELBOURNE — Although Victoria's economy is currently in an "upturn", fewer women in 1995 have full time jobs than at the lowest point of the recession two years ago.
Job
Love, Power and Knowledge: Towards a Feminist Transformation of the Sciences
By Hilary Rose
Polity, 1994. $39.95
Reviewed by Neville Spencer
Hilary Rose covers a diverse spectrum of issues in Love, Power and Knowledge — feminist theories
By Sean Magill and Maureen Baker
Britain's minister for occupied Ireland, Patrick Mayhew, said last week that there was no question of Sinn Fein, the only Republican party with support throughout Ireland, becoming involved in all-inclusive talks
By Dave Andrews
ROSEBERY — After many years of campaigning by residents, the new Rosebery Community Hospital was officially opened on March 1. The hospital replaces the dilapidated structure that had served the mining communities on Tasmania's
A short story by Maria Lee
I arrive about forty-five minutes early, and park next to the theatre gardens. I walk up to the street and find the building I'm supposed to go to. Along the way, my eyes check for possible parking places for the next
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