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Domestic violence job losses shames Premier Iemma
Media Release - 4 February 2008
Greens MP and women's spokesperson Lee Rhiannon said today that Premier Morris Iemma's plan to upgrade domestic violence services was in tatters following his government's decision to abolish 24 anti-domestic violence workers" positions.
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Vale, Benazir Bhutto
by Irene Doutney, 28th of December, 2007
"No man is an island. entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." (John Donne)
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Juanita Neilsen
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2007 Juanita Nielson memorial lecture
Your Intrepid Reporter attended this year's Juanita Nielsen Memorial Lecture on the 25th June and so did about 40 other souls. The vegetarian fingerfood was delicious, especially the lamingtons.
"you don't have to be Politically Correct to be a Heroine"
The first speaker was Caroline Graham, who told us about the life and times of Juanita Nielsen from the perspective of somebody who was involved.
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Brazilian model Gisele Bundchen ... slams church. Photo: AP
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Gisele slams church
Sydney Morning Herald
June 6, 2007 - 5:12PM
Supermodel Gisele Bundchen has stepped into the debate over birth control and sexual behaviour in Brazil, saying church opposition to condom use was ridiculous and women should have the right to choose on abortion.
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Portrait of Eva Cox
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Women in Politics
Irene Doutney
25/05/07
On Friday 25th of May, Politics in the Pub in the Gaelic Club, presented a forum on 'Women in Politics' with Greens Senator Kerry Nettle, ALP member for Sydney Tania Plibersek, and feminist lecturer Eva Cox. The women spoke to a packed house while the Chair noted it was the first time that they had had a total female panel. A timely reminder that reflects the under representation of women in Australian parliamentary democracy and the political debate generally. Although some notable exceptions were mentioned and the panel itself shows how far we've come in 50 years.
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No, Mr Costello, we don't need more babies
Date: Tuesday, 3 April 2007
Charles Richardson writes:
Treasurer Peter Costello continued his fertility crusade yesterday, and Australia's media continued their wanton refusal to question his assumptions.
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Councillor Chris Harris
At a Council meeting on the 15th of March, the Lord Mayor moved a mayoral minute (delivered to councillors 25 minutes before the meeting), which was supported Clover Moore Party âindependentsâ and the Liberal Councillor, to abandon plans to build a skate park at the Millers Point site underneath a busy freeway (for background information on the site, [...]
I have serious concerns about the tender process that appears to have been designed to place the Cityâs tennis courts under the management of a single operator. Should the recommendation of council staff be adopted the operator at Ruchcutters Bay tennis courts will be tossed out after 25 years of service to the community. The [...]
Hot on the heels of their destruction of the habitat area at Orphan School Creek with the freshly laid concrete zig zag path, the Clover Moore Party are at it again across the road in Johnstons Canal with more habitat destruction. The proposal is a bike path that links the shared pathway emerging from Orphan [...]
The Barangaroo Authority conducted a presentation of the design ideas of British architect Richard Rogers at the City Recital Hall on 23rd February. The presentation visuals showed attractive buildings and public spaces that interfaced with the water at the cityâs western edge with a light rail service passing down Hickson Rd.
One key component of the [...]
At a council meeting of the City of Sydney on 22nd February Clover Moore Party
members and the Liberal councilor voted in tandem to donate public ratepayer funds to two private enterprises setting up in the Cityâs laneways.
The first donation to set up a new bar was approved outright.  The second grant, to the Moran Arts Foundation Ltd, was recommended [...]
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