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Reconciliation march allows for 'radical' demands: Reynolds

BY CHRIS SLEE MELBOURNE — Addressing the 500 people present for the launch of his new book, Why Weren't We Told?, historian Henry Reynolds described the march for reconciliation across the Sydney Harbour Bridge as "thrilling" and as opening the

and ain't i a woman?: Lesbians, conception and the law

Lesbians, conception and the law BY JO ELLIS The last decade has been characterised as the "lesbian baby boom". Famous lesbians Melissa Etheridge and her partner Julie Cypher have declined to give information about how their baby was

Tales of workplace violence

Tales of workplace violence A Kind of Violence - Australian workers and workplaces By Yossi Berger The Vulgar Press, 1999 Review by Ben Courtice Yossi Berger has written a detailed account of health and safety conditions

CHILE: Pinochet loses immunity

Pinochet loses immunity In an extraordinary session of Chile's Court of Appeals on May 23, the court voted 13 to nine to strip former dictator General Augusto Pinochet of the immunity he enjoys as a senator. The ruling will allow Juan Guzman, the

SOUTH AFRICA: Costa Gazi — ANC blocks treatment for HIV patients

SOUTH AFRICA: ANC blocks treatment for HIV patients EAST LONDON, Eastern Cape province — If anyone had any doubt that the era of settlerism and elitism was not over in South Africa, President Thabo Mbeki's antics around the issue of HIV/AIDS

Networker: What's in a name?

Networker: What's in a name? What's in a name? BY GREG HARRIS ASP is a term you hear around the information technology, or "IT", circuits these days. But what does it stand for? First, it stands for "application service provider". Think of the

PAKISTAN: Labour movement leader arrested

LAHORE, Pakistan — On May 26, Rawalpindi police arrested well-known railway worker leader and president of Labour Unity Rawalpindi, Bashir Botter. The police are searching for seven other railway workers, and for the Labour Party Pakistan's (LPP)

Campaigning against homophobia

BY GEORGIA CLARK SYDNEY — "The first Mardi Gras in 1978 was a political protest at which many came onto the streets to fight for queer rights, and experienced police brutality and vilification in the media simply for fighting for our right to

Labor rejects maternity leave demands

BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE & KAMALA EMANUEL HOBART — Tasmania's Labor premier Jim Bacon has rejected calls for state public servants to have access to three months' paid maternity leave. The calls came after state education minister Paula Wriedt's

Jarrahdale residents fight sand mine

BY ANTHONY BENBOW PERTH — The local community in the Serpentine-Jarrahdale area 40 kilometres south of Perth has united to oppose planned sand mining in the area and to keep open a hostel for mentally ill men. Two hundred residents and their

WA minister claims Aboriginal people safer in jail

WA minister claims Aboriginal people safer in jail BY ROBERTO JORQUERA PERTH — The Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia has called for the immediate resignation of the state's Aboriginal affairs minister, Kim Hames, after he told a

PERU: Boycott, protests during elections

Voting ended on May 28 in Peru's presidential runoff following a week of confusion and protest during which the opposition candidate withdrew and called a boycott, and all the election monitoring groups refused to observe the vote. President Alberto