Shamima Ali is an Indo-Fijian feminist activist who works with the Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre (FWCC). She visitied Melbourne recently to participate in the Second Latin American and Asia Pacific… Read more »
Radical Women
Bracks is Back! A call to join the unfinished battle for reproductive rights in Victoria
Saturday morning, October 28, 2006, was freezing and threatening rain in Melbourne. On a day like this, Wellington Parade, outside the Fertility Control Clinic, is like a wind tunnel. But… Read more »
Yellow Woman Speaks by Merle Woo
Merle Woo’s poetry achieves a rare combination of substance and style. Undoubtedly political, often shocking, Yellow Woman Speaks is a pleasure to read. Her conversational, open, no-bull tone made me… Read more »
Two initiatives to remember Errol Wyles Junior
Poet, Amelia Walker, came up with the idea of producing a zine to pay tribute to Errol Wyles Junior after she attended a screening of Black and White Justice, hosted… Read more »
Why must women lead the unions into a General Strike? Because we can!
One of my most worn and treasured T-shirts is from my union, the Australian Services Union. It’s hot pink with the message, “Strong unions need women.” If ever women were… Read more »
Reproductive Rights: Report from the trenches in the ongoing war on women’s autonomy
Outside Melbourne’s Fertility Control Clinic, a large banner that reads “Women will decide their fate!” stretches along the street. Placards call for free, 24-hour childcare, employer-funded paid maternity leave and… Read more »
Same-sex relationship equality: Organising to win!
Last June, Federal Member for Melbourne, Lindsay Tanner, told attendees at Pride Or Prejudice, a queer community forum, why the Australian Labor Party (ALP) had voted with the Howard Government… Read more »
Howard takes aim at Land Rights in the Northern Territory
Yvonne Margarula, the most senior member of the Mirrar Gudjehmi clan, became a household name during the struggle to stop the Jabiluka Uranium mine in the Northern Territory. Margarula and… Read more »
A Lesson from a TelCo Centre: How IT workers defeated an individual contract
Protesters waving placards and yelling slogans from a megaphone. Marching in the streets, massed anger and strength in numbers. Unionised, mobilised and determined collective strength. This is hopefully how most… Read more »
Mulheres, feminismo e hip hop
This article in English A rapper e atriz Queen Latifah fez história quando ganhou um Grammy por seu hit inovador, “U.N.I.T.Y“, em 1995. A canção protestou contra a violência doméstica e a… Read more »
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