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... and ain't i a woman?: Rewriting history
agenda, the effects on women are becoming more widely felt — lower wages, less job security in part-time ... advise on women, the aged, youth and migrants. This, of course, is true. However, Summers' ... keep winning the women's vote. Women's votes have been crucial to Labor's ability to ...
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A long way, in many directions
activity in the women's movement, but none have turned their backs on feminist ideas. Many stress the ... Changing Our Lives: Women working in the women's movement 1970-1990 Edited by Maud Cahill and ... in the women's liberation movement in the early 1970s, as a very shy and naive 18-year old. The ...
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US behind Afghanistan bloodbath
By Tony Iltis On September 27, the Afghan capital, Kabul, fell to the Taliban militia, an Islamic ... people at gunpoint to attend mosques, compulsory beards for men and essentially prohibiting women from ... existing in the public sphere. The laws against women surpass anything in the world: all participation in ...
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News briefs
organise the demonstration can ring Adam on (08) 231 6982. ADELAIDE — Women's issues are high on the ... ADELAIDE — Hoping to build on the success of the last two years, the Adelaide Reclaim the Night ... collective has begun preparations for this year's march on October 28. A dance is being organised to ...
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A simpatico look at an old story
on the heavy work when their men leave for the war. So, when the chance comes to move to the land ... where "women don't have to life a finger" they jump at it. So unfolds the true story of ... of substance". Maybe this explains the something that Emma lacks in its narrow focus on the ...
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The best of boys' own
fawning, passive and abjectly submissive to the male hero. His young, nubile women are always on the ... did his subject choice, and the honesty of his treatment of war in particular. Hemingway did not shirk ... graphic portrayals of the barbarities of war. In what he regarded as his best novel, A Farewell to Arms, ...
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Community picket stops eviction
By April Bragg and David Mizon MELBOURNE — On September 21 and 22, a community picket was set up ... under the Women and Children At Risk program. The family was provided with public housing in the ... estate is to be privatised. However, having escaped war-torn Somalia, the family were not about to be ...
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... and ain't i a woman?: Female students' success provokes backlash
men stay on to the end of school, more young women take out academic prizes and more gain entry to ... common for the establishment media: to make women's issues appear more as a "gender war ... female students in comparison to male students. In every state and territory more young women than young ...
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Monuments
prison, spat on, vilified? I want monuments for the victims. Don't give me that crap about saving ... your country I want monuments for the victims Defending your women and your way of life I want ... lives And yes, the men suffered: wars warp people's lives Suffering? Ask the Vietnamese who ...
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... and ain't i a woman?: Wildmen
women's movement has had an enormous impact on the lives of millions of men and women throughout the West ... and exposed in print on May 25. Allan Tegg, of the Men's Development Centre, is 35 and grew up in ... American customs. The wildmen complain that their sex has been tamed, not just by the women's movement ...
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Action updates
union offices at the University of Queensland on April 18 in response to the student union's ... is controlled by the Young Liberals. There will be a follow-up rally on May 2. ANZ workers strike ... SYDNEY — A Finances Sector Union mass meeting of almost 600 ANZ bank staff on April 19 decided on ...
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Greek parties stir up chauvinism
By Mike Karadjis Four women have been arrested in Athens for handing out leaflets supporting ... is likely to drag the country to war". It concluded: "The neighbouring peoples are not our ... enemies. Down with nationalism and war." It claimed that the government and political parties are ...
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Radio Highlights
injustice, racial bigotry, war and labour struggles. ABC Radio National, Friday, February 18, 11.05 a.m. Back ... artists featured in live shows on stage. Material is drawn from concerts recorded between 1962 to 1993. ... women's compositions that complements the National Gallery of Victoria's exhibitions and events ...
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Iraq still suffering from the blockade
on women. But, according to Mahmood this is a pretext as this has been criticised many times before. ... for Saddam Hussein on October 15 served to show the world that the Hussein regime is still in control ... sanctions imposed in 1990 — 500,000 since the end of the Gulf War — than the Iraqi regime in a quarter of ...
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Action updates
rape victims and all other victims of the war. Should a brief report on your group's activities be ... ADELAIDE — More than 2000 public sector workers filled the Festival Theatre for a mass meeting on ... South Africa, Joe Kaapanda told a Politics in the Pub on May 12. The former SWAPO representative in the ...
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Sweet Honey's 20-year journey
Still on the Journey Sweet Honey in the Rock's 20th anniversary album Review by Carla Gorton ... "Viva South Africa, Viva!" Hundreds of concert goers were on their feet with their fists in the ... Australia two years ago. Their tour this time, following on the ANC election victory in South Africa, will ...
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Vengeance is whose?
justice and revenge in the context of political loyalties. A civil war is raging. Five supporters of the ... the case of the two women, who were involved sexually with the leader, the betrayal is a personal one ... anything that hasn't already been said on the subject, and does so at great length. The script was ...
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Charles Edward Russell and insurgent journalism
second world war, brainwashed with Cold War ideology, most mainstream journalists became apologists for ... the powerful. It wasn't until the 1960s during the Vietnam War that many mainstream reporters ... — such as Wilfred Burchett, the great Australian correspondent who reported the Vietnam War from behind ...
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Feeling good about struggle
songwriter with an enduring ability to make his listeners feel good. He is an accomplished musician (on more ... German and Allied soldiers during World War One. McCutcheon's political songs are often very simple. ... an experiment with a range of musical styles on a variety of traditional folk songs plus a couple of ...
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Music from the red heart
release of their second album, Civilised World, at the Rose Shamrock and Thistle Hotel on September 30. ... "deadly" live, as they are on disk. She has a rich tone and accomplished technique which ranges from ... guitar, Nick Guggisberg vocals/drums. At the launch they were joined on stage by a sax player whose name ...