Ewan Saunders

  • Students protest fees

    BRISBANE — Around 250 students at the University of Queensland successfully blockaded the university's senate meeting on August 1, preventing a vote that would have seen course places sold to wealthy students with lower entry

  • Conference endorses refugee sanctuaries

    BY STACEY BRENNAN & EWAN SAUNDERS BRISBANE — The National Union of Students (NUS) National Education Conference, held July 5-7, was attended by 400 students. An endorsement of the campus refugee sanctuary campaign as "an idea worthy of further

  • Alcohol abuse: Beattie blames the victims

    The report into violence in Aboriginal communities in Cape York, presented by Tony Fitzgerald, has opened the floodgate of "causes" and "solutions" to the alcoholism crisis that has faced indigenous Australians since white

  • Whatever happened to reconciliation?

    BY EWAN SAUNDERS& MARCEL CAMERON Last year hundreds of thousands of Australians participated in the "reconciliation walks", the most impressive of these occurring on May 28, 2000, when at least a quarter of a million people walked across Sydney

  • March on CHOGM gains momentum

    BY EWAN SAUNDERS & TIM STEWART BRISBANE — Plans for a massive march on the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in October are gaining momentum, with plans by community groups and environmental and social justice organisations in the CHOGM

  • Politicians seek to tarnish campaigners

    BRISBANE — Scenes of clashes between protesters and heavily-armed Italian riot police during the G8 summit in Genoa have proved the spark for a concerted propaganda campaign against anti-capitalist groups planning actions during

  • Unions opt for pre-CHOGM march

    BRISBANE — The Queensland Council of Unions has backed a proposal for a march the day before the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting begins here on October 6, but has refused to back a planned "people's unity march" on the

  • CHOGM people's march forges ahead

    BRISBANE — Plans are well underway for a mass people's march and convergence on the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in October after more than 30 anti-corporate, environmental, indigenous and social justice activists

  • Cops, council trample free speech

    BRISBANE — On January 25, two Green Left Weekly distributors staffing a campaign stall in the Queen Street Mall were accosted by police and a Brisbane City Council employee and threatened with arrest if they did not move on. The

  • Students to converge to save the environment

    Students to converge to save the environmentBRISBANE — Students, activists and environmentalists from around the continent will converge on Griffith University here on July 3 for Australia's largest student environment