The Mask of Motherhood: How Mothering Changes Everything and Why We Pretend it Doesn'tBy Susan MaushartRandom House345 pp., $17.95 Review by Pip Hinman
At last! A book on mothering which isn't a how-to, but a how-is. Susan Maushart's The Mask of
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Protesters condemn Shell
During Sydney-wide protests against the Shell oil company on November 10, environmentalists in the Lane Cove River Valley joined Friends of the Earth to picket the Shell service station on Epping Road, in John Howard's
Politics the easiest way
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Feminists discuss how to fight back
By Zanny Begg
BRISBANE — Thirty women attended a meeting of the International Women's Day Collective on November 10 to hear several speakers and to formulate demands for the 1998 IWD rally. Shannon
Residents oppose nuclear waste dump
By Tony Iltis
HOBART — Residents of the suburb of New Town have reacted angrily to a state government proposal to store a cubic metre of radioactive waste under St Johns Park, adjacent to a child-care
By Nikki Ulasowski
CANBERRA — On November 14, 65 people attended a meeting to discuss native title organised by the YWCA. The meeting was addressed by Camilla Cowley and Sean Brennan. Cowley is a Queensland pastoralist who has a native title
The big bad Australian: BHP's worldwide record
By Jon Land
BHP, Australia's biggest company, achieved international notoriety on May 4, 1994, when landowners surrounding the Ok Tedi copper and gold mine in Papua New Guinea launched a $4
By Adam Hanieh
RAMALLAH — In recent years, the Islamic movement in Palestine, represented by Hamas and Islamic Jihad, has become the most prominent target of the Israeli government and imperialist leaders worldwide. Responsibility for suicide
Eighty years later, Russians want socialism
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — Eighty years ago, on November 7, Petrograd workers and soldiers under the leadership of the Bolshevik Party swept into oblivion a government whose continued
Smooth melodies
And So It Goes ... CD by Steve TilstonDistributed by Flying Fish through Festival Review by Alex Bainbridge
Steve Tilston is a British folk singer who recently toured parts of Australia. His latest CD, And So It Goes ..., is
Exposing the myth that migrants take 'our' jobs
By Chris Slee
The idea that immigration contributes to unemployment is very widespread. Pauline Hanson blames migrants for unemployment (along with crime, drugs, disease and just about every
Perth to celebrate 300 issues of GLW
PERTH — Plans are under way to welcome the 300th issue of Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly with an all day fiesta on November 29, including a banquet and live music. Mark Abberton, an organiser of the fiesta, said it
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