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  1. Transgender debate: against exclusion

    exclude transgender women from the NOWSA (Network of Women Students Australia) collective. This opposition ... movement around the country, setting the precedent for transgender women to be excluded from the Reclaim ...

  2. Poor speech or just poor journalism?

    a comment piece on October 26, called 鈥Australia, we need to talk about the way we speak鈥. Author Dean ... storytelling skills of Australia's diverse original languages 鈥 but what would he make of the creative ... Murphy is a linguist who works with Aboriginal communities reclaiming and reviving their languages. She ...

  3. Ezekiel Ox adds energy to activism

    Australia, the United States and Britain with bands such as Full Scale, Mammal and Over Reactor. Ox is an ... Territory] intervention is one example of how it clearly manifests in Australia. Rudd says 鈥渟orry鈥 then ... reclaim the space for creativity, expression and humanity. That would make conditions a little riper for ...

  4. Wilfred Burchett as he never was

    charmingly creepy capital of South Australia, also known as the "Athens of the South Pacific" and ... the "City of Churches". In the 1950s, Australia's former colonial master, Great Britain ... Whittlemore is Wilfred Burchett reclaimed, or rather damned by suburbia where he dies a miserable death. The ...

  5. VIETNAM: 60 years of independence

    sought to "reclaim their property", only to be defeated militarily by the Vietnamese people in ... World Federation of Democratic Youth. Other participants included Australia's Democratic Socialist ... Australia's West Australian branch, delivered a special letter of solidarity from Chris Cain, WA MUA state ...

  6. Ali Humanyun fights for freedom

    Australia, has been incarcerated inside the Villawood detention centre for two years and four months. He was ... "My father and brother have threatened to kill me. My brother wants to 'reclaim the family's ... Humanyun's case is like hundreds of others that the RRT has knocked back. Australia is a rich country that ...

  7. Don't be fooled by the two-party con trick

    Herald Sun revealed that the Australian arm of Rein's company, Work Directions Australia, not only ... around Australia. It says it has ruled out nuclear power, but has agreed to more uranium mines. It has ... cheque. If we are to reclaim rights stripped away during the last 11 hard years, we need to begin building ...

  8. Anti-war notebook

    Bensemann said that he wants a ceasefire, with troops returned to Australia. He contrasted his act of giving ... and rally on April 13. Around 150 people marched later that day in a Reclaim the Streets action, which ... by the Socialist Alliance, the forum was addressed by Bill Hartley from the Australia-Iraq Friendship ...

  9. Telling it like it is: Land rights and the pastoral industry

    Obviously the history and culture of rural Australia means that there are many who can not conceptualise ... in rural Australia, not least of all workers in the beef industry. Current government policy is ... to smash the wharfies. Taylor says the "persistence of Aboriginal people in reclaiming their ...

  10. Thought-provoking reply to Helen Garner

    the rise of economic rationalist politics in Australia, young women will have a lot to get angry ... events such as Reclaim the Night. There was no real discussion of the diverse perspectives of young women ... of Women Students in Australia conferences in recent years. Fundamentally, Trioli is correct to argue ...

  11. Action updates

    government in South Australia. Speakers detailed the drive to privatise and cut back vital services; they ... a National Action "reclaim" Eureka Day rally. Both rallies were held in the northern suburb of ... pressure the federal government against renewing woodchipping licences in Western Australia's high ...

  12. Can the men's movement be pro-feminist?

    reclaim their "true" masculinity in order to become whole men again. Mythopoeic thinking is ... to reclaim their pride as men. "However, will a men's movement motivated only by male ... this conservative potential has already been realised among some men's groups in Australia ...

  13. Write on

    and China being eroded by traitors. W.G. Fox Brisbane Reclaim The Night I came away from this ... year's Reclaim the Night march in Sydney elated and frustrated. Elated because the rally mobilised over ... areas of life. It provides protection for everyone in Australia against discrimination based on ...

  14. Violence against women: Who's to blame?

    unique to the US. Women in Australia have a one in three chance of being raped at some point. One in four ... more tragically, wife-murder is on the rise. In 1991, 42% of all women murdered in Australia were ... between 1968-1994.(NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, 1994). One in three families in Australia ...

  15. Xanana: "We resist to win"

    Pilger's attempts to have the interview published in Australia, the Canberra Times was the only ... a son, Nito, and a daughter, Zeni, now both in their 20s and living in Australia. Nito's only memory ... and the trigger pulled. In 1990, after long negotiations, she was allowed to leave for Australia. On ...

  16. Inside every princess...

    sexually-referenced slogans emblazoned on Wicked Campers vans available for hire and seen all over Australia. They are ... of the Reclaim the Night chant: 鈥測es means yes and no means no鈥. (This does not exclude consensual ...

  17. The struggle to de-commodify sports

    in Australia help to show how the realm of sport entertainment is increasingly colonised by ... we come up with a collective strategy towards reclaiming sport as commons? Could community control ...

  18. Germain Greer: Transphobia is all in your mind

    dissection for the time being. Greer says, 鈥淭ransphobia doesn't exist.鈥 Brisbane Reclaim the Night ... There aren鈥檛 many statistics on transphobia in Australia, but in the US transgender people accounts for ...

  19. Get this patriarchal boot off our necks! Poverty hits sole parents hardest

    minimum wage in Australia, quite frankly, it鈥檚 not a viable business. It鈥檚 not good enough that ... citizens. It鈥檚 time for us to stand up and reclaim our own power and we need to remember the most powerful ...

  20. Annie Leonard: Occupy mov't taking back our spaces

    Australia. Almost four years later, more than 15 million people, in every country in the world, have watched ... interchangeably. 鈥淧eople are stepping out of that imposed identity 鈥 and reclaiming that sense of agency. So I鈥檓 ...

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