Emma Webb

  • Unions and students plan August 1 action

    ADELAIDE — The South Australian Education Network (SAEN), the National Tertiary Education and Industry Union (NTEU), the Public Service Association (PSA) and other unions have united to organise a worker and student mass meeting and

  • Resistance campaigns for East Timor

    ADELAIDE — As part of its campaign for freedom in East Timor and an end to the Indonesian occupation, the socialist youth organisation Resistance held a speak-out in Gawler Place on April 12. Passers-by stopped to

  • No Fees Campaign plans conference, day of action

    No Fees Campaign plans conference, day of actionADELAIDE — The South Australian Education Network (SAEN) will be coordinating the second National No Fees For Degrees Conference, to be held at Adelaide University on September

  • New union-environment coalition in SA

    ADELAIDE — The Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) Building Division and the Conservation Council formally established the Coalition of Unions and Environment Groups (CUE) on June 5, World Environment Day.

  • Students protest with a tent university

    Students protest with a tent universityADELAIDE — Students have established a "tent university" outside the ALP state office following the No Fees National Day of Action rally on May 3. The tent university —

  • Students to target the ALP on May 3

    Students to target the ALP on May 3ADELAIDE - The South Australian Education Network, formed to organise South Australia's contribution to the No Fees for Degrees campaign, is planning a rally and march to target the ALP for

  • Nuclear waste dumped in SA

    Nuclear waste dumped in SAADELAIDE — The first of 120 semi-trailer loads of radioactive waste from the Lucas Heights nuclear reactor in Sydney have been transferred to South Australia's far north. By the time the operation

  • SA budget: mean and petty

    ADELAIDE — The state Liberal government's first formal budget on August 25 continues the strategy of generating savings through public sector job cuts and reforms previously outlined in May by the Audit Commission.

  • Adelaide rally against racist violence

    ADELAIDE — "Let's get angry about racism; let's also get angry about the public service cuts and unemployment that cause racism." These were the words of Frank Barbero of the Ethnic Communities Association, speaking to a

  • What is an 'ecologically sustainable population'?

    There is a view amongst a section of the green movement that Australian immigration levels must be slashed. The idea that solving Australia's environmental crisis means closing off our borders from the rest of the world is a

  • Forum discusses censorship

    Forum discusses censorshipADELAIDE — Almost 100 people attended a Democratic Socialist Party forum on censorship and pornography on November 4. Speakers were Melanie Sjoberg of the DSP and Helen Vicqua, the secretary of the