On October 13, 450 supporters of the Burmese democracy movement, including members of Sydneys Burmese community, trade unionists, and members of the Greens and the Socialist Alliance, rallied in Martin Place.
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Ninety people crowded into the Redfern Community Centre on June 25 to hear traditional owners, environmentalists and Aboriginal rights activists explain their concern about federal government plans to set up a nuclear waste dump in the Northern Territory. It was the last event of the From the Heart, For the Heartland national speaking tour.
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An anti-war speak-out held on February 21, during orientation week at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), halted military recruitment on that campus for the day. The action was organised with the support of socialist youth group Resistance, Christian Students Uniting, the Bike Club, the UNSW Greens and the UNSW Environment Collective.
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The new student organisation at the University of New South Wales, established as a result of the Howard governments voluntary student unionism (VSU) law, is forcing staff earning $40,000 or more per year onto individual contracts (AWAs Australian Workplace Agreements).
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HOBART — "Contrary to yet another commitment" is how Phillip Baker, the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union's Tasmanian branch secretary, described plans by Labor Premier Jim Bacon's government to privatise software company
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HOBART — "An attack on Medicare is an attack on the community itself", David O'Byrne, Tasmanian secretary of the Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Workers Union, told a "Save Medicare" rally on October 22. Delegations from
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HOBART — Socialist Alliance member Peter Cahill, a public servant in the Tasmanian Department of Health and Human Services, launched action with the Anti-Discrimination Tribunal (ADT) on July 29, seeking a declaration that the
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HOBART The Tasmanian ALP state conference, held October 26-27 in Launceston, voted overwhelmingly to not debate a motion put by Denison MHR Duncan Kerr to end logging in areas of high conservation value. Instead, it
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HOBART — Students at the Hobart campus of the University of Tasmania (UTas) will vote in a referendum on whether to remain affiliated to the National Union of Students (NUS) on February 25-March 1. The Hobart campus is one of
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HOBART - The Policy and Intergovernment Committee of the Hobart City Council decided on February 5 against holding a public consultation about activities in city's Elizabeth Street mall. The consultation was originally proposed
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HOBART — The Hobart City Council is considering banning the distribution of Green Left Weekly in Elizabeth Mall, one of the city's main public spaces. Council referred a motion banning the newspaper's distribution back to
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One prominent feature of Hobart's October 18 student walkout against Bush's war was the presence of two police officers with a video camera in a carpark 50 metres away from the anti-war rally. Despite the fact that it was an