PERTH — Eighty people have been blockading logging operations near the town of Manjimup, south west of here since July 1. Despite timber industry statements that there would be a moratorium on logging for three weeks, protesters
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PERTH — Eighty people have been blockading logging operations near the town of Manjimup, south west of here since July 1. Despite timber industry statements that there would be a moratorium on logging for three weeks, protesters
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PERTH — The West Australian Forest Alliance (WAFA) and the Wilderness Society have decided to take direct action in an attempt to block the destruction of valuable forests. A blockade has been planned, which will start with a
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WA forest blockade plannedPERTH — Four of the best of WA's last wilderness forests — Hawke, Rocky, Sharpe and Giblett in the south-west of the state — are on the Department of Conservation and Land
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Perth — Community opposition is growing to the WA police "Operation Sweep", which, under the pretence of defending young people "in moral danger", is harassing them on the street at night. The socialist
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Perth residents fight freewayPERTH — The City Northern Bypass is a freeway link proposed by the state Liberal government to run across the northern edge of the Perth central area. The government claims that it will help
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The Rudall River National Park has been described as a "three-act nightmare" for the mining giant CRA: uranium, in a national park, and on Aboriginal land. The state Liberal government has authorised CRA to go ahead with
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Picket supports abortion rightsPERTH — "Get your laws off our bodies", shouted a lively picket outside Liberal Party offices here on January 27. The demonstration, initiated by the Democratic Socialists, highlighted
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PERTH — It is not just a matter of getting people into parliament: "We need to change the way people think and view and operate within the world", Stewart Jackson, secretary of the WA Greens, told Green Left Weekly. The
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Bite in SA budgetADELAIDE — Despite being described as "almost mild" by current Australian standards, the SA budget delivered by Premier-Treasurer John Bannon on August 29 will have a nasty bite for many people. Government