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because at the time he nominated for election he was a government employee, though on leave without pay. ... population I=PAT seems to have been the flavour of the month in GLW #84. You had 2 letters and 2 articles on ... plenty of time on his hands and did good research he could work all this out. (He'd probably need ...
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(GLW 20/1), is based on the specious argument that until a pure mathematical formula is provided, there ... crisis." He adds, "This is the book of the century on the environment." Indeed, these books are ... is based on absurd generalisations. Modern technology need not be destructive, affluent consumption ...
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Ethical investment: banking on the environment
things up to the marketplace, that money should be able to run freely purely on the basis of supply and ... to receive the ultimate benefits, it is more likely to have a better effect on the society than if ... criteria? The environment is the major concern, and after the Gulf War there is an increasing concern with ...
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GLW wanted Third World women to go barefoot and pregnant. Well, those on the left have a long track ... record of putting shoes on the feet of Third World women, but no record at all on the pregnancy aspect. ... on a per capita basis can only be made on the assumption that there is plenty of room in Australia ...
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Write on: letters to the editor
#27) seems to be predicated on a misreading of my comment on the gun law debate (GL #25), i.e., they ... seem to assume that I argued against a ban on the possession of guns in urban homes. In fact, I argued ... resulting from the alienation and demoralisation that capitalism creates."0>-1>For example, on ...
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Write on: letters to the editor
to proposed women-only sessions at the Brunswick Baths. The left needs to be built on these events, ... before and during the Aidex '91 arms bazaar recorded a number of successes" and went on to list ... is accompanied by an item on the police torture of Sean Kenan. Towards the end of his article Painter ...
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The consensus of world opinion on the war against Iraq is collapsing. Russia is disturbed by the ... Population and equity In their replies to Peter Boyle's article on population and the ... impact on the environment. Masanobu Fukuoka, in his book The One Straw Revolution, details how he was ...
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Radio highlights
donate or for more details. Women on the Line presents Working Women — Melbourne's 3CR (885-AM) ... continues its series on the work of Australian women in the '90s. Every Wednesday, 5.30 p.m., until ... December 22 (repeated every Monday at 10 a.m.). Women on the Line is also broadcast on public radio ...
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Identifying the enemy
Undeclared War Against Women. Enter also long-time feminist activist and editor of the influential magazine ... feminist movement by turning the blame back on women, sees self-esteem as the prerequisite for true ... hubby's ironing second. But exactly how women are supposed to raise their self-esteem on a mass ...
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Radio highlights
Radio National Christmas Appeal for Africa — On the weekend of December 12-13, the Radio National ... music? ABC FM Stereo, Wed December 16, 9.02 a.m. Out On Wednesday: Blues in the Night — Blues in the ... Night uses the great blues and jazz songs of the 1920s and 30s to reveal the lives of three women and ...
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A pioneer of feminism
's equality. Her two WPAs (the Women's Peace Army was set up to oppose the war) were militant, feminist ... younger and equally radical sister). She saw women as "peace-makers in the class war", and the ... rejoice to see women organising on any lines, even Conservative lines", she wrote. Yet she had the ...
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Strippers and 'immorality'
money being charged, rather than the women? If governments were prepared to spend money on education and ... yet here are its officials on TV denouncing "immoral" women. June 12, 1991 16 Culture ... them with prostitution if they accept even a cash tip from the audience. Some of the women have ...
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Refugees at risk in Serbian camps
the Serbian Republic of Bosnia. Women in Black Against War report that "there is a massive forced ... perhaps the danger will soon be extended to women. The governments of Serbia and of the Serbian Republic ... mobilisation of male refugees from Bosnia and Hercegovina and Croatia going on in Serbia and Montenegro". ...
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... and ain't i a woman?: Sex discrimination laws fall short
that the paid Australian workforce is in reality dependent on the unpaid labour of women in the home, ... Currently, women who served in World War II don't share their male counterparts' entitlements to ... women and in some cases even reinforce traditional sexist stereotypes, according to a federal ...
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Rally against rape in Bosnia and Croatia
the issue of rape in war, to generate action and to bring about justice for all women who have been ... is organising a rally on Mother's Day, May 9. The group is made up of members from the Croatian ... violated. A European Community commission has estimated that about 20,000 women have been victims of ...
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Beyond the dismal decade
The Falklands War was an orgy of chauvinism. These women, growing up in such an inhospitable ... a pity to ignore it. It consists of essays by 16 women growing up and living through Thatcher's ... reign in the 1980s. The women came from backgrounds seen as undesirable in the conservative era — they ...
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A post-feminist era?
current undeclared war against women. Faludi is North American, but this is a universal problem, neatly ... headlines and hype such as this. Marilyn French's The War Against Women is also a response to the ... on present-day men. Faludi both damns and praises new right women who often lead the fight against ...
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Invisible comrades, Gays and Lesbians in the Irish struggle
Captive Voice), the voice of Irish Republican prisoners of war. Gay men and lesbian women have been ... sexism, at least today women have succeeded in putting feminist issues on the agenda of the ... civilisation as we know it because of men loving men and women loving women. Such attitudes, which are based on ...
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What the faceless child sees
dimension of the conflict and its effect on civilian lives. Major themes are children of the war, who are ... war in Croatia and Bosnia-Hercegovina. Marija Zrno paints not as a detached observer but as one of the ... 250,000 Australians of Croatian origin for whom the war in Croatia and Bosnia-Hercegovina is not just ...
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Action updates
13, the Women's Abortion Campaign decided to support Children by Choice in a walk on Parliament ... of Women Students — Australia (NOWSA) conference in Melbourne on July 16-20. Organisers have planned ... 660 2438. SYDNEY — The Middle East Action Campaign on May 16 discussed the projected International War ...