SYDNEY — More than 70 people attended a meeting organised by AID/WATCH on March 25 to discuss the ramifications of the recent fiasco around mercenaries hired by the PNG government to intervene in Bougainville. Speakers
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SYDNEY — For 49 years the NSW Police Special Branch has been monitoring the activities of left activists in NSW. After the NSW Royal Commission into Police Corruption heard evidence in February of Special Branch's
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FREMANTLE — The Democratic Socialist Party is launching its new branch here on June 28, and as DSP member Michael Bramwell puts it, "The party is very excited about the possibilities of interesting more people in socialist
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On June 3, around 1500 people across Australia marked World Environment Day by taking to the streets demanding an end to environmental destruction. From Sydney, Sandra Wallace reports that 300 people joined a march
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Budget limits education accessThe projections for higher education in the 1995 budget signal the ALP government's commitment to privatisation, and hence reduced access to education. Access to Austudy will be
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On January 29, 200 angry young people gathered in the city mall in Brisbane to protest against the decision by the federal government to extend woodchipping licences. Chanting "Jobs, not woodchips", they marched up and down
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Three hundred students stormed the Chancellery Building at the Australian National University on Thursday, September 15, while thousands of other students held mass rallies around the country in protest at proposals
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Cuba opposes US-led invasion of HaitiSYDNEY — "I am convinced that the United States' plans to invade Haiti are directly related to the possibility of intervention in Cuba," Marcellino Fajardo, the Cuban Consul
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Across the country young environmentalists have begun organising World Environment Day. On June 5 a variety of activities are planned to highlight the need for community action for environmental justice. June 5 was
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MELBOURNE — The Victorian government began its public sector cutbacks last year by slashing 9300 jobs, closing 52 schools and four campuses. Education has been worst hit with 3700 cleaners, 2175 teachers, 500 public
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Debate on reproductive rightsMELBOURNE — About 70 people participated in a September 22 public meeting sponsored by Green Left Weekly on "Reproductive Rights: a question of choice". Resistance organiser and
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MELBOURNE — An extremely successful World Environment Day rally was held in the city square on June 6. Weeks of hard work paid off as about 300 young people, mostly from high schools and on their first rally, turned up