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Why women's wages are slipping
New National Agenda for Women on February 10. Probably the biggest whopper was his assertion that ... particularly, though, the IRC's limits on enterprise bargaining do not protect women workers. At best they ... women in the full time work force will also be unaffected by the IRC's brakes on enterprise ...
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Cuban women: 'Lift the blockade!'
NIEVES ALEMANY (a member of the national secretariat of the Cuban Women's Federation, the ... They were interviewed in Melbourne on October 30 by Pip Hinman, Peter Boyle and Dave Holmes. ... objective. We considered four main resolutions: one on party statutes, another on our program, one on ...
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Jobs for women: how BHP was made to change its tune
were being put on at the rate of 30 to 40 a week, women like Mara were being told there were "no ... jobs for women". Between June 1977 and April 1980, the company put on more than 4000 ironworkers, ... of whom only 58, or a little over 1%, were women. In 1980 AI&S had more than 2000 women on its ...
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Shift to market brings disaster for Russian women
crisis are women. The new situation is also affecting birth rates; for the first time in the post-war ... By Irina Glushchenko MOSCOW — How did women live in the USSR when perestroika was in the future, ... when their shift ended. But when huge numbers of women arrived home from their jobs, their work began ...
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Professor Steven Rose (GLW #18) typically do), medical experimentation on animals is bad science. ... Thalidomide was tested on animals and declared safe, whilst penicillin would not have been developed if it had ... been tested on guinea pigs (whom it kills). Species react differently to different drugs. Rob ...
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Population control and women's rights
been imposed on the Third World and minority groups women since World War II as part of the US ... discourage women from using contraception or taking on roles outside the home. Often the technologies on ... without addressing the strains on women's health brought about through the burden of domestic duties ...
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Beauty in Whose Eyes? Images of Women
out how women felt about advertising on television. Ninety-two per cent of the women surveyed thought ... insulting to women, and are especially concerned at the effect it has on their children. There are no recent ... these expectations, on both women working in those industries and the women who watch us, can be ...
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Indonesia: a system built on corruption
The leak last week of an Australian government document on corruption involving the family of ... Indonesian President Suharto tells only a small part of the story. A 300-page report on the human rights ... well as Setia Kawan, the first attempt at a free trade union in Indonesia, and women's, consumers ...
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Population and social justice Diana Evans (Write On, GLW #66) and others who believe that cutting ... population growth in Australia (almost all due to immigration) is ecologically unsustainable rely on a crude, ... anti-immigration lobby, the sooner we will get there. Peter Boyle Melbourne [Edited for length.] War tax resistance ...
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On the box
strikes of 1934, World War II, the McCarthy era and the period of industrial automation. It even ... September 21. Frontline — The all too realistic farce on the world of "current affairs journalism" ... 24. The Cutting Edge: why women kill — In 1933, 51% of Canadian women were found to have suffered ...
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once. Alex Rhodes Brunswick Vic 'War on drugs' An open letter to the gay and lesbian ... Lesbians and gays are finding ourselves now on the frontlines of the farcical war against drugs, and we are ... The anti-drug campaigns and the so-called "war on drugs" must stop. It is a farce and ...
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Greens (WA) As the Â鶹´«Ã½ reported (# 17), I posted a letter on Pegasus about the involvement ... to the effect that actions were taken in virtual secrecy. This was based on initial investigations ... that proved to be in error. I corrected that statement with a further posting on Pegasus the following ...
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Serbia's war According to Justin Starchevic (Write on, October 7), "Milosevic should ... help Bosnian Serbs in their civil war for the same reason that Australia always helped Britain and ... America in their wars". Good comparison. As socialists, we opposed British and US imperialist wars in ...
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the views of influential Muslim thinkers. Subjects covered include holy war, democracy, women ... Women — British comedian Dawn French sets out to prove that big women aren't just beautiful, but ...
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George Bush: guilty on all counts
proposed visit to Australia during the New Year period. Charges against Bush included: l Waging war against ... the people of the Middle East during the Gulf War and perpetuating the oppression of the Palestinian ... Vietnam and the Philippines. l Attacking women's rights, especially the right to abortion. ...
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Guatemalan appeal The External Commission of the National Union of Guatemalan Women (UNAMG) has launched an ... appeal to save the lives of three Guatemalan women and their children. This appeal is one of three ... their lives. In the years since then the Union of Guatemalan Women has carried out many different ...
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Write onSelf-help movement
Backlash — The Undeclared War Against Women and Gloria Steinem's Revolution From Within (GLW #58), the ... conclusion of Faludi's book that we need an uncompromising and forceful mass women's movement ... that the problem is with women themselves and that therefore personal self esteem through self-help is ...
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Focus on Asia at Sydney Film Festival
the power of either of these films. Based on a folktale, it is a familiar story of a young woman ... of Saigon is asked to star in a movie about the war, and Leaves and Thorns (India), set in a village ... in Kerala where four young women stand up to male aggression. This year's festival retrospective ...
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to come behind the campaign against the Gulf War by the pressure of tens of thousands of people on ... the issue of violence against women. It is true that all women in Australian society face violence on ... Jobs and justice There was some discussion on the Melbourne left about the Victorian Trades ...
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Free speech I feel strongly that it is a great mistake to approve the Government's restriction on ... freedom of speech (Norman Taylor, Write on, GLW 24/2/93). What else is the 20th Century except ... State-socialism? Unless the philosophical anarchist position is fully comprehended and taken on board, any new ...