Jess Melvin

"People are stopped for no reason, bashed for no reason, physically and spiritually abused. They target migrants and people from Third World countries", Hussein Farah from the Somali Youth Association and the Western Suburbs

MELBOURNE — "Redevelopment" has gone off the rails at Melbourne Central train station. As part of the "new evolving Melbourne Central", rail commuters have been diverted from their usual direct exit point to Swanston Street, which

Eating disorders now rank as Australia's third worst health problem for women under 18 years old. A recent survey conducted from June 2002 to June 2003 by the Australian Paediatric Surveillance Unit, which involved all Australian

MELBOURNE — On July 21, the Age newspaper reported on "scandals" of mismanagement and abuse within the Melbourne University Student Union (MUSU). Since then, regular follow-up articles have continued to argue that the union is in

MELBOURNE — On July 21, more than 100 students from the Victorian College of the Arts — 10% of the student population — disrupted a senior-staff meeting to place demands on VCA director Andrea Hull. The college arts school

BY CHRIS ATKINSON & JESS MELVIN There could have been few places as full of pro-war fever in the last few months as the USA. Nevertheless, a vibrant and passionate movement opposed the war on Iraq. US anti-war student activist DANI BARLEY will be a

MELBOURNE — On April 3, a student from the prestigious Melbourne High School received a detention. His crime was mentioning the war in class and questioning his principal. "I don't think it is appropriate for the school to be

BY JESS MELVIN & BEN COURTICE  MELBOURNE — Culminating a week of pro-refugee protest action, 100 high school students gathered outside Flinders Street Station on June 28, despite bucketing rain. “People our age are the victims

MELBOURNE — On the morning of May 30, I and fellow high school Resistance activist James Crafti stood before a judge at Melbourne Children's Court. The case followed our arrest for trespass while protesting for refugee rights

Tens of thousands of people around the country attended public meetings featuring Tenzin Gyatso, Tibet’s 14th Dalai Lama, in late May. His May 20 Melbourne address attracted 9000 students. Gyatso received the 1989 Nobel

MELBOURNE — Three-hundred and fifty people, most of them young, took to the streets on April 27, demanding Israel get out of Palestine. "Palestine will be free — because there will never be a day in which we stop raising our

MELBOURNE — More than 2000 people marched for Palestine on April 20, in a protest mobilising much of the Palestinian community in Melbourne. "I am angry", Rarda Abdel Fatah, speaking on behalf of Young Palestinian Women, told the