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Write on: letters to the editor
incredible load of appeasement bilge! In World War I Australia lost 60,000 soldiers who are still remembered ... to read Lisa MacDonald and Pip Hinman's comments on the Sydney Reclaim the Night March (Green ... Reclaim the Night and was inspired. Inspired by the stimulating multiracial platform, inspired by the ...
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Ways to get active this week
people, Muslims and immigrant communities is on the rise, both by far right groups such as Reclaim ... Australia, and by the federal government. What’s behind these racist campaigns and how can we fight back? ... Wollongong women who ignite a campaign that changes Australia forever. Featuring Pat Brewer, author; Robynne ...
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Write on: letters to the editor
be our next target. Melanie Sjoberg Ashfield NSW Reclaim the Nightie I was disgusted and annoyed at ... the proposal by the women's collective at the University of Tasmania for a "Reclaim the ... rooms", GLW #380). Disgust that Reclaim the Night and Blue Stocking Week, which were established as part ...
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10 of the best political albums you'll hear this year
DESERT METAL- BREAK THE SILENCEÂ As Trump-style climate-wrecking policies continued in Australia ... released, moves were afoot to dump radioactive waste in South Australia, sell off Aboriginal land in Western ... Australia and start Adani's Great Barrier Reef-wrecking coal mine in western Queensland. ...
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Letters to the editor: Feminist chants are a valuable tradition
Reclaim The Night has a proud international history as an annual protest of women and their ... be able to be part of a roughly 200 strong Reclaim The Night event in Canberra recently. I was ... sufficiently coincide with the traditional and still very relevant aims of Reclaim The Night. The other ...
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Tough deal for sex workers
that sex work can be "reclaimed" by feminism, because it challenges the nuclear family unit, ... the property of others. The idea of "reclaiming" sex work ignores the reality that, for most ... sex workers, there is no choice. In First World countries like Australia, many sex workers enter the ...
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A woman by any other name?
"space chick" (the official T-shirt for organisers of the Network of Women Students Australia ... "reclaimed" and used positively to empower women. Does that make me one of those politically correct puritans ... minutes earlier? Language is not something that can be "reclaimed" at will by a handful of ...
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The HDP and the Turkish elections
Australia. Occasionally, self-immolations by workers demanding pay and justice light up social media, but ... opposition came together to reclaim Istanbul as they last did at Gezi Park in May 2013. Istanbul and Gezi The ...
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Behind the CFMMEU’s rightward drift on refugees
related — we have the rise of neo-Nazi groups like the United Patriots Front and Reclaim Australia. These ... motions, including on the right to strike, changing the date of Australia day, gender equality in ... CFMEU and Maritime Union of Australia blocked a motion from the left to ban boat turnbacks, which was ...
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Murdoch press ignores problems of youth unemployment
back to reclaim it. Like the article? Subscribe  to Â鶹´«Ã½ now! You can also like  us on Facebook ... and follow us  on Twitter. Australia April 1, 2017 1132 Resistance! ...
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Action updates
also launched a new book from Spinifex Press: Radically Speaking: Feminism Reclaimed. May Day film ... organised by the Australia East Timor Association on April 24 attended by 80 people. Aditjondro discussed ...
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Aboriginal activists to appeal conviction
arguments that the four were entitled to reclaim the building as unused crown property. The occupation ... Since the court case I've had numerous calls from Aboriginal people all over Australia offering ...
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Protester wins over made-up charge
anti-Reclaim Australia protester, then covering their actions up by deleting evidence, making up a false charge ...
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Thousands protest as student anger boils over
provided by the Reclaim the Streets collective, 700 students stormed into the main building of the ... students took to the streets across Australia. The day of action was called in response to the legislation ... addressed the crowd, pointing out that the attacks that students face in Australia, like those in Indonesia, ...
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... and ain't i a woman?: Another reason to ditch the G-G
Reclaim the Night are "downright dangerous" because they encourage women to expect to be able to ... in Australia, especially violence against women. Last year the institute's conference on ... violence made headlines with the news that Australia is one of the most violent societies in the world, and ...
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The thin end of the wedge
economic theory. In a sense the Change the Rules campaign signals a preparedness to reclaim ownership of ...  to Â鶹´«Ã½ now! You can also like  us on Facebook and follow us  on Twitter. Australia October ...
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Of course, #MeToo
have shared the hashtag. The hashtag’s instantaneous ascent should shock no one. In Australia, sexual ... record — and as we draw near to national Reclaim the Night rallies around the country — we cannot afford ... You can also like  us on Facebook and follow us  on Twitter. Australia October 16, 2017 1158 Harvey ...
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Who's getting whose preferences?
Seniors, BFC, Reclaim Australia: Reduce Immigration, Greens, NAN, then split between ALP-Coalition, ... (including AAFI, Reclaim Australia and CTA) last. Exceptions are in Queensland, where DSEL is recommending ... "most" lower house seats in South Australia. Fraser & Namadgi (ACT) — ALP, Liberals. Canberra — Not ...
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Write on: Letters to the editor
conservatism in the working class in rich, exploiter nations like Australia. Several unions in Melbourne have ... Secretary, Australia East Timor Association Sydney Beazley's sexist call Kim Beazley was reported to ... young, the sick, the aged. The call for measures to "improve Australia's birth rate" also ...
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Construction workers to visit M1 blockade
is not recognised as a public holiday in Australia, so for many years the traditional May Day parade ... initiative of the M1 Alliance to reclaim May 1 for the workers' movement. Kingham said that the May ... in Europe and Australia has forced Rio Tinto to back down. "The workers are now organising ...