BY ROBYN MARSHALL
BRISBANE The International Women's Day collective here has launched
a petition campaign to demand that Peter Beattie's Labor state government
repeal sections of the criminal code which make abortion illegal.
The
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Immigration minister Philip Ruddock's proposed law to allow strip searches
of refugees, increase prison terms for those that flee detention and further
restrict visitor access to detention centres are a disgrace.
Their introduction into
BY JOHN McGILL& BRONWEN BEECHEY
ADELAIDE — On April 2, Adelaide City Council voted to make the streets and parks of the inner CBD a "dry zone". The issue had been under consideration by the council since last year, when it commissioned a market
BY ANDREW HALL
CANBERRA — The ACT Trades and Labor Council has decided to back the planned M1 blockade of Mining Industry House and to move its traditional May Day march from the following Saturday, May 5, to May 1 itself.
The TLC voted at its
East Timorese band Five from the East performing at Darwin's March 31 Rage Against Racism band night, organised by the socialist youth organisation Resistance. Despite persistent rain, 350 people attended the event and raised $1500 for Green Left
BY SUE BOLAND
Shock! Horror! Media magnate Rupert Murdoch's hired mouthpieces at the Australian have accused the Coalition government and the Labor Party of turning on big business, in particular the banks.
While the Murdoch family doesn't own
BY EVA CHENG
Thousands of progressive and environmental activists from across North America are expected to converge on Quebec City, Canada, from April 16 to declare their rejection of the US-led push to extend the notorious pro-business North
BY RA GREEN & SIMON BUTLER
BRISBANE — In a bid to access an extra $15 million of state government funding, the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) has decided to abolish its arts faculty and replace it with a new faculty called "creative
BY NORM DIXON
The Pacific Concerns Resource Centre, the Fiji-based group that campaigns against the nuclear fuel cycle and supports independence movements in the Pacific Ocean region, on April 2 strongly condemned the Australian and New Zealand
Green tinted glasses
Friends of the Earth's Peter Barker (Write on, GLW #442) says that I "neglect to understand the depth and diversity of people that make up FoE's huge international network" in my review of FoE International's document Towards
BY LESLIE RICHMOND
ADELAIDE — Activists livened up a quiet Sunday afternoon here on April 1, marching around the city in a Corporate Scumbags Tour of some of Adelaide's leading businesses.
As curious shoppers looked on, a noisy and vibrant tour
BY NORM DIXON
An Indian Fijian rights group in Suva is seeking compensation from the Indian, Australian and British governments, reported the Times of India on April 3. The Peoples' Organisation for Indo-Fijian Rights and Land Resolution said these
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