Tom Flanagan

LISMORE — One-hundred-and-fifty people gathered in Lismore's City Hall on December 4 to demand the retention and extension of rail services in the region. Organised by Northern Rivers Trains for the Future, the meeting called for

BY TOM FLANAGAN &MATT EGAN LISMORE — On September 17, teachers in NSW, Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia are scheduled to take strike action. Tough stands by state Labor governments against teachers' pay demands have provoked this

LISMORE — In what many participants described as the biggest political event in this town's history, 5000 people — about a ninth of the town's total population — overflowed Spinks Park to say no to any war on Iraq. Lisa

LISMORE — Around 350 people attended a lively and colourful "No War on Iraq" rally at Spinks Park on November 30. Speakers included Mavis Davies, a Bundjalung elder, Lismore councillor and former mayor Ros Irwin, Sister Margaret

BY MATT EGAN & TOM FLANAGAN LISMORE &#151 During the last five years, workers at Telstra's directory assistance call centre in Molesworth Street, Lismore, have repeatedly won recognition as the top performing call centre team in their region. One

SYDNEY — Thousands of NSW nurses converged on the Sydney Town Hall for a stop-work meeting on October 18. The town hall meeting, filled to overflowing, was broadcast by Skychannel to similar meetings around the state. The NSW

"Whilst we might be the first trade union to walk away from the ALP this week, we also hope for the sake of injured workers in this state that we won't be the last", said Chris Read, the secretary of the NSW Fire Brigade Employees'

The case of eight stonemasons, who were kept in a barbed wire enclosure and paid $145 a month, has highlighted the exploitation of foreign workers in Australia.

In his review of Clinton Heylin's Bob Dylan biography (GLW #433), Phil Shannon attacks Dylan on the basis that he sold out on his politics. Shannon fails to grasp that Dylan was never a political activist. His music took up

Mardi Gras parade puts politics up frontSYDNEY — The Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras has been criticised in recent years for becoming too commercialised, at the expense of the progressive politics that marked its

NSW teachers vote to fightSYDNEY — At stop-work meetings across the state on February 3, NSW teachers overwhelmingly approved further political and industrial action in support of their demand for a pay rise of 7.5% per year

SYDNEY — Participants at a public meeting of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras held on December 11 strongly supported the elimination of restrictions on bisexuals gaining Mardi Gras membership. The meeting, attended by 40