Emma Clancy

Fadi Rahman from the Independent Centre for Research’s youth centre in Lidcombe, Sydney, spoke to Green Left Weekly’s Emma Clancy about the impact on young Muslim Australians of the media attack on the entire Islamic community in the wake of Sheikh Taj el-Din Al Hilaly’s comments about women and sexual assault.

According to an October 19 media release from the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU), workers under the age of 15 are now signing Australian Workplace Agreements (AWAs — individual work contracts) under the Howard government’s Work Choices legislation, which came into effect at the end of March.

In a September 25 appeal to the international community to act to end the humanitarian disaster in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, the UN envoy on Palestinians’ human rights, John Dugard, pointed out: “In effect, the Palestinian people have been subjected to economic sanctions — the first time an occupied people has been so treated.”

Protest actions were held in a number of capital cities last week to oppose the Howard government's drive to deregulate and privatise higher education. On June 4, 50 people attended a rally at the University of Wollongong. A

The last few months have been a period of political awakening for thousands of teenagers. Through protesting against the war on Iraq, many young people have gotten involved in political activity for the first time. But their

SYDNEY — The copious numbers of corporate journalists present at the April 2 student anti-war rally may have spent four to five hours dashing from one end of Town Hall to another in search of a violent spectacle, but, unlike

SYDNEY — In an extraordinary move, the newly re-elected NSW Labor government has denied a permit for a student peace march on April 2, organised by Books Not Bombs, the national student anti-war organisation. Books Not Bombs

The March 5 student strike against war was a huge success, mobilising around 30,000 students and young people across Australia as part of an international day of student action to stop the impending war on Iraq. Some elements

The Books Not Bombs Coalition was launched around the country on March 5, with thousands of its newsletters being distributed and meetings being held afterwards in some cities. Many high school activists and groups came into contact

Students from hundreds of high schools around Australia are set to participate in the March 5 student strike against the impending US war against Iraq. They will be joined by large numbers of college and university students,

The March 5 student strike appears is set to become the next big, nationally coordinated anti-war protest across Australia. Hundreds of students attended meetings to organise the strike on the February 14-16 weekend, after

BY GRANT COLEMAN & EMMA CLANCY WOLLONGONG — Following the February 8 anti-war protest in Wollongong, 25 students from high schools and universities held a meeting to plan action for the international student strike on March 5. The strike