Gail Lord

SYDNEY &#151 The ADI Residents Action Group (RAG) was disappointed, but not surprised, by the June 16 NSW government approval of the development of the old defence site at St Marys. Nearly 2000 homes will be built on 130 hectares of

SYDNEY — After the death of sitting MP Jim Anderson, a by-election for that state seat of Londonderry was held on May 31. In a large field of candidates, the Greens doubled their previous vote in the seat. Labor's replacement

@caption =PENRITH - As part of an ongoing campaign to challenge the ALP state government's proposal to build a new women's prison at South Windsor, the No New Women's Prison Campaign held a week long vigil near the prison construction site from

SYDNEY — In case you missed it, March 21 was the United Nations' International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. To draw public attention to the day, Amnesty International organised a protest action outside the

  Photo by Gail Lord. On March 7 bus loads of members of the Worker Communist Party of Iraq, the Worker Communist Party of Iran and their supporters held demonstrations outside the Iraqi and Iranian embassies in Canberra. The

PARRAMATTA — After staging the first International Women's Day march and rally in Parramatta for 30 years in 2000, feminists in Sydney's western suburbs are organising an even bigger IWD action on March 8 with the theme, "Women

SYDNEY — Community activists from Richmond, Penrith and across the Blue Mountains are organising to stop a new women's prison from being built in Windsor, on the city's western outskirts. They say the state government should

SYDNEY — Women's Abortion Action Campaign members and supporters gathered outside an abortion clinic near Penrith on November 3 to counter an anti-abortion picket. The anti-choice campaigners have been harassing the clinic regularly. The pro-choice

SYDNEY — A group of pro-public education activists, including members of the Democratic Socialist Party and the Internationalist Socialist Organisation, demonstrated outside the Kings School in North Parramatta on November 2 to

Books of Fidel's speeches launchedSYDNEY — Cuba's consul general in Australia, Maria Luisa Fernandez, on August 9 spoke to a full Resistance Centre in Parramatta when she launched two new books containing recent speeches by Cuba's

Ruddock's hasty retreat BY FRED FUENTES & GAIL LORD SYDNEY — Immigration minister Philip Ruddock received an angry welcome from migrants and refugee rights supporters here on August 4, when he attended a "community consultation" at the

Support for teachers urgedSYDNEY — One hundred and seventy people, angry at the diversion of federal and state funds from public to private schools, were urged to support the NSW teachers' industrial campaign and calls for