Kylie Moon

Cuts to the Victorian health budget are having a significant impact on Victorian hospitals. More than 300 beds have been closed, elective surgeries have been delayed, and jobs are being lost as hospitals attempt to implement a funding cut of $107 million by June this year.

Green Left weekly’s Kylie Moon spoke to Matt Wright from Beyond Zero Emissions, a Melbourne-based climate change activist group, about BZE’s campaign strategy and current activities for 2009.

More than 1000 protesters crammed into the entrance of Flinders Street Station on October 26 for the Community Rally for Sustainable Public Transport, and to oppose the Victorian state government’s planned East-West road tunnel and extensions. These would result in massive destruction of homes and shift more trucks and commuter traffic into the suburbs.

Environment groups are calling for the dredging of the Yarra River to stop immediately until there has been an investigation into whether there is radioactive waste in sediments of the river.

In some of the largest university student demonstrations in five years, thousands of students rallied across the country on August 27 as part of a national day of action against the government's attempts to accelerate privatisation of

"Stop school to stop the war!" This was a call put out by Books Not Bombs (BNB) following US President George Bush's March 17 48-hour ultimatum to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. It was met on March 20 by thousands of students putting

As Prime Minister John Howard buddies up for the media with his “close personal friend” US President George Bush, Australian students are preparing some US-Australian solidarity of our own. But we aim to prevent war, not to

Support for the March 5 national student strike against the war on Iraq is quickly gathering momentum. Federal Labor MP for Fremantle Carmen Lawrence has endorsed the strike. Lawrence declared her support for the March 5 strike at

MELBOURNE &#151 The October 30 flag-burning action at Melbourne University, organised by Socialist Alternative, has attracted nationwide media attention, and much corporate media condemnation. The 100-strong action involved the

BY NATALIE ZIRNGAST & KYLIE MOON MELBOURNE &#151 In a victory for the staff and student campaign against RMIT's bid to provide education and recreational facilities to asylum seekers in detention, RMIT vice chancellor Ruth Dunkin announced on

BY MATTHEW RICH & KYLIE MOON MELBOURNE — In a victory for democracy in the student movement, activists at the University of Melbourne have quashed attempts from the ALP-controlled Melbourne University Student Union Incorporated (MUSUi) to evict

MELBOURNE — On May 11 300 Palestinian supporters commemorated Al Nakba — otherwise known as "the catastrophe" — the destruction by Israel, between 1947 and 1950, of 415 Palestinian villages, creating a million refugees. The