Alex Salmon

  • Students protest for better education

    PERTH: One hundred students rallied on March 25 outside Perth’s Wesley church to call on the Rudd government to give fair income support for university students, to end voluntary student unionism and to stop the planned deregulation of university funding.

  • 'Why the boats must come'

    On June 22, 80 people attended a World Refugee Day forum organised by Project Safecom at the Fremantle Navy club entitled “Why the boats must come”.

  • Perth students rally

    Around 80 students rallied outside the Perth Cultural Centre on May 2 during a National Union of Students (NUS) day of action to demand a better future. Protesters called for better access to education, the repeal of Work Choices, and government

  • 700 people hear eyewitness report on Iraq

    PERTH — Seven-hundred people attended a meeting at Fremantle Town Hall on May 14, to hear long-time peace activist Reverend Neville Watson, who has just returned from a "peace mission" in Iraq. The 73-year-old Watson travelled to

  • 1500 protest Rio Tinto on May 1

    PERTH — The WA branch of the mining division of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union picketed the opening of Rio Tinto's annual general meeting on May 1. The unionists were protesting the company's attacks on workers

  • Thousands mobilise for refugees' rights

    BY ALEX SALMON & JULIANNE GREEN PERTH — The June 22 component of the June 22-23 national mobilisations to demand that the Australian government end the mandatory detention of asylum seekers attracted good crowds. More than 800 people