Steel Line Doors strikers tour Melbourne
By Ray Fulcher
MELBOURNE — Three workers from Steel Line Doors in Brisbane, who are among 17 unionists on strike against racial and trade union discrimination since November, toured Melbourne
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By Karen Fletcher
SYDNEY — Nearly 10,000 anti-woodchipping protesters encircled the NSW Parliament House on February 19 in a spirited show of strength.
Many participants had made their own placards and banners, expressing anger at both
Police freed in abduction of Aboriginal children
By Mick White
BRISBANE — Magistrate Robert Quinlan on February 24 dismissed charges against six police who had previously admitted to abducting and terrorising three Aboriginal children.
DARWIN — The Danila Dilba Aboriginal Medical Service in Darwin is facing a funding crisis. Barely able to pay its workers the fortnight's pay due last week, Danila Dilba may be forced to close its doors in the very near future.
Danila Dilba is an
Burn Witch Burn — A comedy. John is entering a spectacular float in the Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. He is keeping it secret from flatmate Matthew, who has gone all right wing and paranoid. Rani discovers the giant float in the bathroom, disguised
Young people harassed in six counties
Twenty-six per cent of 18-year-olds in the occupied six counties of Ireland say they have been harassed by British crown forces.
This information was contained in a report published in Northern Ireland
MELBOURNE — After spending $5 million in court costs, the Kennett government has finally admitted defeat and agreed to reopen Northlands Secondary College. The end of the battle came with a Supreme Court ruling that the Equal Opportunity Board
The protest meeting
Chairperson: Fellow environmentalists! As you may all be aware, the plight of the forests is at a critical stage. These facts will reverberate, if anywhere, then in the hearts of us all. Yes indeed, reverberate. We respond to
By David Mizon
MELBOURNE — The management of Caltex's Kurnell refinery launched an attack on wages and conditions in April 1994 with glossy brochures and a gaggle of US managers.
Since then, process operators, members of the AWU state
By Peter Gellert
and Rosendo Mendoza
MEXICO CITY — In a desperate measure to shore up much-needed support for his crisis-ridden government, Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo announced a major offensive on February 9 against the Chiapas
Youth rights attacked in NSW law
By Nick Soudakoff
SYDNEY — The state government's juvenile crime legislation is facing intense opposition from youth and welfare groups. The legislation allows police to detain people under 16 on
BRISBANE — The destruction of Papua New Guinea's rainforests through industrial-scale logging has reached crisis point, according to a group of four PNG forest campaigners who launched an Australian tour here on February 22.
Launching the "Big
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