Grant Coleman

  • SRC censors refugee campaign

    BY GRANT COLEMAN& AMY PARISH WOLLONGONG &#151 Facing a concerted campaign of censorship by the Young Liberal-dominated Students' Representative Council (SRC) of the University of Wollongong, the Refugee Action Collective (RAC) has decided to push

  • Illawarra students mobilise for refugees

    WOLLONGONG — Four hundred of the Illawarra Grammar School's 600 students attended a voluntary assembly on August 16 to discuss the plight of refugees in Australia's detention centres. The meeting was organised by about 20

  • Campaign for refugee sanctuary

    WOLLONGONG — The Illawarra Refugee Action Collective (RAC) is campaigning to make the University of Wollongong a refugee safe haven. During the first week of August, students were greeted with life-size cardboard "refugees"

  • Vigil for a free Palestine

    WOLLONGONG — Three-hundred people chanted "Free, Free Palestine" and "Shame, Shame USA" outside Wesley Church in the Wollongong mall in a "Vigil for a free Palestine" on April 27. It was the first pro-Palestine protest here since

  • Curtin Uni staff, students organise against war

    PERTH — Following a successful anti-war forum last month on Curtin University, 18 staff members and students met on November 7 to organise the anti-war campaign on campus. The majority of those at the meeting were concerned

  • Curtin students and staff oppose war

    PERTH — Determined to take action against the US attacks on Afghanistan, 55 students and staff formed an anti-war alliance at an October 24 forum on Curtin University. Addressing the meeting, Gavin Mooney, a health sciences

  • Students protest for refugee rights

    Secondary students across the country took action in protest at the government's handling of the refugee crisis on the MS Tampa, taking part in school walkouts and rallies organised by the socialist youth group, Resistance. In

  • WA Labor sells out on VSU

    PERTH — In February, just before it was elected to government in Western Australia, the state ALP promised it would repeal legislation enforcing voluntary student unionism (VSU) within 100 days of being elected. Two months

  • Drug summit proposes health-based solutions

    PERTH — After months of media hysteria and political point-scoring, a community drug summit has come out in support of health-based solutions for the treatment of heroin use. Despite a fairly narrow agenda, the 100 delegates,

  • Police arrest Nike blockaders

    PERTH — "In smashing a peaceful blockade, the police are not only denying us the right to protest, they are helping to deny hundreds of Nike workers the right to a decent wage", Roberto Jorquera told the 40-strong crowd outside

  • Forum discuss CPA history

    PERTH — Organisers of a June 30 forum on the history of the original Communist Party of Australia got a rude shock when participants were more interested in discussing the future of socialism than condemning CPA mistakes.

  • Liberal heartland almost turns green

    PERTH — The Liberals have only just managed to hold on to the lower house seat of Nedlands in a by-election on June 9. Greens candidate Steve Walker came within 3.5% of stealing the blue-ribbon Liberal seat. The seat was