Luke Fomiatti

  • Parramatta students protest

    SYDNEY — In the biggest ever protest on the campus, more than 100 students and staff from University of Western Sydney, Parramatta campus marched on the senate inquiry into higher education, which was holding one of its two NSW

  • PAKISTAN: Islam and the anti-war movement

    LAHORE — As I watched a 500-strong January 18 anti-war demonstration here, a well-dressed man with a crisp English accent approached me. Believing I was a Western journalist, he asked if I would be interested in interviewing the

  • PAKISTAN: 500 protest against US war on Iraq

    BY LUKE FOMIATTI& TAMARA PEARSON LAHORE — The Anti-War Committee-Pakistan (AWC), a coalition of 27 progressive organisations and political parties, organised a protest here on January 18 to coincide with an international day of action against

  • Linking war and globalisation

    BY LUKE FOMIATTI & MELANIE SJOBERG SYDNEY — “This meeting to discuss war and globalisation occurs against the backdrop of US President George Bush's 'state of the nation' speech”, anti-war activist Tara Povey told 60 people at Trades

  • Goolangullia occupation victory

    SYDNEY — Aboriginal education will continue at the Bankstown campus of the University of Western Sydney, as the student occupation of the Goolangullia Aboriginal Unit ended in victory on November 9. The university agreed to all

  • 'Get off the web and into action'

    SYDNEY — On an internet increasingly dominated by slick corporate web sites advertising their latest products and full of information of (at best) dubious reliability, it's a welcome change to see something completely

  • Students disrupt corporate uni conference

    SYDNEY — Early on the morning of February 19, 100 students and unionists joined together for a symbolic blockade of the "Designing, launching and managing a corporate university" conference at a luxury hotel in the exclusive

  • ALP sweeps Sydney University SRC

    SYDNEY — Student elections at Sydney University last week resulted in a massive swing to the National Organisation of Labor Students (NOLS), a loose grouping of ALP students. This year's NOLS presidential candidate, Moksha Watts,

  • Ruddock confronted by anti-racists

    Ruddock confronted by anti-racistsSYDNEY — Immigration minister Philip Ruddock held a "community consultation" here on March 1 at the Joan Sutherland Centre in Penrith. A crowd of angry protesters, including members of