Tony Iltis

  • Women meet the candidates

    By Tony Iltisand Kamala Emanuel HOBART — About 50 people, mostly women, attended a forum on August 18 organised by the Women's Electoral Lobby to discuss issues of interest to women in the August 29 state election. Women candidates presented

  • Liberals clutching at straws

    Liberals clutching at strawsHOBART — The Liberal state government is desperately trying to convince an increasingly sceptical Tasmanian population that privatising the Hydro Electric Corporation will benefit the community.

  • Parliamentary representation weakened

    HOBART — Tasmania's parliament voted last week to cut the size of the lower house from 35 to 25, by reducing the number of members elected by each electorate from 7 to 5. This will make it harder for minor parties and independents

  • Protesters occupy BCA property

    MELBOURNE — Around 200 people rallied in the Bourke Street Mall at lunchtime on July 14 to protest against uranium mining at Jabiluka. Speakers pointed out that the government's pro-mining policies show no regard

  • Biggest Students and Sustainability Conference ever

    HOBART — More than 600 students and activists gathered at the Students and Sustainability Conference (S&S), held at the University of Tasmania and the Lea Scout Camp, July 6-10. The conference is an annual forum of student

  • Campaign against library cuts

    Campaign against library cutsHOBART — On May 21, 50 people rallied at the University of Tasmania to protest against plans to amalgamate the two science libraries. The university administration wants to close down the bio-med

  • Meeting opposes 'Ocean wart'

    HOBART — Hobart Town Hall was filled to capacity for a meeting organised by the Denison branch of the Tasmanian Greens to oppose the proposed Oceanport retail and residential development at Princes Wharf. The proposed six-story

  • Railway workers strike for jobs

    HOBART — A three-week strike by workers on the Emu Bay Railway in Tasmania's remote west coast, has defeated moves by the railway's new owner to sack the entire work force and contract out the jobs. The EBR once carried passengers,

  • Thousands mobilise to defend sub-alpine wilderness

    Thousands mobilise to defend sub-alpine wildernessKOOPAROONA NIARA, Tasmania — Driving to Kooparoona Niara through the spectacular sub-alpine landscape of the Great Western Tiers reinforces the realisation that making the

  • Hydro privatisation: Greens propose lease

    HOBART — Polls have shown 63% of Tasmanians oppose the privatisation of the Hydro Electric Corporation and the Liberals, ALP and Greens all promised before the last state election to oppose the sale. For the past year, however, the

  • Plug pulled on Jabiluka NDA

    Anti-uranium activists from across the country discussed plans for the campaign against the proposed Jabiluka mine in Kakadu during a national telephone link-up on January 28.

  • Uranium mining, woodchipping, greenhouse linked

    HOBART — Around 40 people attended a film night organised by Everyone for a Nuclear Free Future (ENuFF) on November 18. The films shown were irt Cheap, about uranium mining in the Northern Territory; Take Heart,