Anthony Benbow

  • Yaluritja Clarrie Isaacs — a lifetime of activism

    PERTH — On December 2, as the morning sun sparkled from the river's quiet surface, more than a hundred people gathered at Gooniniup, the Nyungah women's sacred site, also known as the old Swan Brewery. We recalled the campaign

  • WA electricity 'reform': privatisation disguised

    PERTH — On October 10, 125,000 homes in Western Australia lost electricity when a computer fault caused the Collie power station to shut down for two-and-a-half hours. This followed widespread blackouts in the south-west area of

  • Win for strikers in Burrup dispute

    DAMPIER, WA — A dispute that began with a company's arrogance towards a team of cleaners led to a week-long strike — and victory — for workers at Woodside's construction site on the Burrup Peninsula, near Dampier in Western

  • Apartheid in Northbridge

    PERTH — The WA Government is again bending to the wishes of the law-and-order lobby and the business community, this time at the expense of young people, especially Aboriginal young people. On April 15, Premier Geoff

  • Anti-war activist notebook

    Protesters say 'no' to US submarineFREMANTLE — On April 19, activists gathered at the entrance to Stirling Naval Base on Garden Island, near Rockingham, to protest the presence of the US submarine Key West. USS Key West was

  • Labor debates demand for troop withdrawal

    BY ALISON DELLIT& ANTHONY BENBOW "The government's decision to commit [Australian troops to the US-led invasion of Iraq] was wrong but we have got to be realistic about this. They are there and what we have got to hope for in the current

  • Workers protest war

    BY GRAHAM MATTHEWS & ANTHONY BENBOW Militant unionists in Melbourne and Perth have offered a lead to others by walking off the job to protest the war at union-organised rallies following the beginning of the war. In Perth,

  • 30,000 Perth people say 'No War!'

    Within hours of Bush's declaration of war on March 18, people in Perth were protesting in their thousands. Protests continued throughout the week, culminating in a massive rally and march through central Perth on March

  • Seaswap campaigners step up action

    PERTH — With the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln still undergoing maintenance off Fremantle, US warplanes starting bushfires during bombing "practice" 100 kilometres north of Perth and a US FA-18 fighter crashing near the

  • 'We will never forget you'

    PORT HEDLAND, WA — Despite intense police attention, on July 18 more than 100 protesters marched on the Port Hedland immigration detention centre and remained for an all-night protest vigil. For more than 12 hours,

  • Hundreds support refugees

    FREMANTLE — "I only wish the politicians could show refugees the same kindness, compassion and humility that my ancestors showed your ancestors hundreds of years ago" — with these passionate words, Nyoongar activist Kim

  • WA Labor retains individual agreements

    PERTH — The Western Australian Labor government has finally unveiled its draft industrial relations legislation — and what a reaction. The bosses are screaming, the Liberal/National Coalition opposition is foaming at the mouth