Janet Parker

  • No Aircraft Noise Party launched

    No Aircraft Noise Party launchedSYDNEY — More than 1000 people packed out Marrickville Town Hall for the launch of the No Aircraft Noise Party on February 21. The new party is contesting six lower house seats affected by

  • Rally defends health system

    Rally defends health systemSYDNEY — One thousand pensioners, health and community workers from across NSW rallied here on February 11 against the dismantling of the public health system. A lively contingent from the

  • Activists discuss solutions to third runway crisis

    The plague of aircraft noise generated by the opening of the third runway at Sydney's Kingsford Smith Airport has generated a protest movement on a scale not seen in many years. The draft environmental impact statement in 1991

  • Anger grows over third runway

    SYDNEY — Anger at the third runway disaster continues to grow. Government promises of enforcing curfews and fining airlines which flout flight paths have proved a sham. The government package, launched with great ceremony

  • Health and airplane noise

    SYDNEY — The plague of aircraft noise generated by the opening of the third runway at Kingsford Smith airport is uniting affected communities in a powerful opposition — one that has NSW Labor politicians running for cover.

  • Corrective Services imprisoned

    Corrective Services imprisonedSYDNEY — Employees of the Department of Corrective Services here were imprisoned for an hour by demonstrators barring the entrance to their offices on September 30. The protest,

  • Pickets oppose uranium mining

    Pickets oppose uranium miningSYDNEY — A "yellow-cake luncheon" was held outside the state Labor Party offices on September 22 to let the ALP know that there is strong opposition to allowing uranium to be

  • Abortion an election issue

    Abortion an election issueSYDNEY — The Women's Abortion Action Campaign (WAAC) has surveyed all candidates standing in the by-election for the state seat of Parramatta to determine their attitude to women's right to

  • Greens contest Parramatta by-election

    Greens contest Parramatta by-electionSYDNEY — On August 27, voters in the state seat of Parramatta, once a piece of Labor's "heartland" and now a marginal seat, go to the polls. Some commentators estimate the outcome will

  • Lesbian Space Project nears deadline

    SYDNEY — In a world where only 1% of property is owned by women, there are very few places for women which are safe and accessible. For lesbians, the situation is even more bleak. But a group of Sydney women are about to change

  • Conference discusses alternative transport plan

    SYDNEY — The social and environmental impact of cars are well known, yet cars continue to dominate transport decisions and determine our sprawling pattern of land use. Developing an alternative public transport plan was the

  • Meeting against technology park

    Meeting against technology parkSYDNEY — More than 100 people attended a public meeting in Alexandria on May 27 to oppose plans for an advanced technology park (ATP) on the old Eveleigh goods yard site in Redfern.