'Draw the line! Stop the Cuts!'BRISBANE — "What we're hoping out of the rally against the budget on May 13 is that it will be a start" of a fight back, Claire Moore, Queensland state secretary of the Community and
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Chinese community combats HansonBRISBANE — Following the April 11 launch of Pauline Hanson's racist One Nation party in Ipswich, sections of the Australian-Chinese community have lodged a protest with the Australian
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Les Malezer, executive director of the Federation of Aboriginal and Islander Research Associations and member of the indigenous working group negotiating proposed amendments to the Native Title Act with the federal government,
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March is Australia's folk festival season, when some of the best performers from overseas tour the country. This year, one of Canada's finest young songwriters, James Keelaghan, will be performing at five of the major
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Death of civil rightsBRISBANE — When lesbian JM won an anti-discrimination case in the Equal Opportunities Commission against a Queensland sperm bank that refused her access because of her sexuality, the media made
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In response to Pauline Hanson's racist outbursts, and John Howard's tacit support for her views, anti-racism activists have started organising against racial harassment and funding cuts to the Aboriginal and
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BRISBANE — Around 1500 public transport workers, from Queensland Rail and City Council buses, rallied at Roma Street forum for a joint stop-work meeting on September 2. Workers were angry at plans by the Borbidge government to
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More than 40 people attended the Brisbane Fight Back conference organised by the Democratic Socialist Party and Resistance here on September 1. The day featured discussion by trade unionists, students, migrants and Aboriginal
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On May 5, 1996, the people of the east German states of Brandenburg and Berlin soundly rejected by referendum a treaty to unify those two states. The treaty was defeated even though almost every major party
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SYDNEY — Around 150 Aborigines and their supporters rallied on March 13 to save the Block around Eveleigh Street, Redfern. Organised by the Redfern Aboriginal Housing Coalition, the rally condemned plans to relocate up to
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SYDNEY — The University of New South Wales was the setting for the public day of the 32nd annual conference of the Australia New Zealand Solar Energy Society on December 3. The keynote speakers were prominent
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The tradition of marking May Day as an international day of workers' struggle began in Australia as early as 1856 in the effort to win the eight-hour workday.