In April, Prime Minister Rudd named Quentin Bryce as the first woman to hold the position of Governor-General in its 107-year existence. The constitutional powers of the G-G are to… Read more »
Radical Women
Review: A Pleasing View
The View from Here: Conversations with Gay and Lesbian Filmmakers by Mathew Hays. Arsenal Pup Press, 2007. ISBN 978-1-55152-220-3. 384 pages. The View from Here is rich in its diversity…. Read more »
Abortion Rights in Victoria are within reach – Pro-choice action is crucial
By November this year, Victorians will have new abortion laws. For the first time in 50 years, women and their doctors will no longer face possible imprisonment, as stated in… Read more »
Victoria’s health workers and teachers give lessons on how to fight WorkChoices
Women workers are leading the resistance! Paid far less than their counterparts in the rest of Australia, nurses, allied health workers and teachers have ignited a spark in the union… Read more »
Crunch time for abortion rights in Victoria: A call to action for pro-choice campaigners
This year, Victorian women could win the right to choose, at last. Fifty years of dogged campaigning — in parliament, within the governing Labor Party and in the streets —… Read more »
A call to rebellious sisters: It’s time to turn our vision of a perfect world into a reality. Because we can!
How often have you heard it said that women are the powerless victims of a ruthless society that enslaves us? Or these words, “In a perfect world…”— to shut us… Read more »
Young Women’s Prognosis for Feminism: Alive, Kicking and Life-saving!
The Australian newspaper’s contribution to International Women’s Day this year was this article: “What young women want: Feminism is dead, or at least in desperate need of an extreme makeover.”… Read more »
Radical Women hosts Indigenous rabble-rouser
Nellie Moore and Alison Thorne at Solidarity Salon. On 17 April, Solidarity Salon was filled with Radical Women (RW) members, supporters and new friends eager to hear Nellie Moore, a… Read more »
Out of the closets and into the streets! Equality beckons, but not through the ballot box
It seems as if the federal election has been coming for an eternity! Australia has been in pre-election mode since the Australian Labor Party (ALP) chose its new leadership team… Read more »
Water is a feminist issue
Victoria burning, Melburnians choking from the smoke, parched land everywhere. This is life in the southeast corner of the earth’s driest continent. Across the Pacific, on the U.S.-Canadian border, pre-Christmas… Read more »
