SYDNEY — Fifty activists held a protest outside the US consulate on August 6 to demand an end to the 11 year-old economic sanctions against Iraq on the anniversary of their introduction. Passers-by heard how the sanctions have had a crippling
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BY EVA CHENG
Companies in the US planned to lay off 205,975 workers in July, 65% more than in June. These new cuts bring the total US job losses so far this year to nearly a million, three times those over the same period last year.
Such cuts are
Hiroshima A-bombing marked
BRISBANE — A graphic description of the terrible effects of the US atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945 was the keynote talk of an August 6 rally held here to mark the 56th anniversary of that catastrophic event. The
Sydney community radio station 2SER's annual radiothon is on again — and
the station is after your support.
The radiothon, which began on August 10 and runs until August 17, is one of the main ways by which the station, long a centre of
BY TYRION PERKINS
The first Australian version of the television show Big Brother is finally over, but there is another in the pipeline. Channel 10 marketers did their job so thoroughly that even its news readers were plugging the show. Big Brother
BY ROBYN MARSHALL
BRISBANE — Hundreds of people took action around the country on August 8, in a national day of action to demand the repeal of anti-abortion laws. August 8 marked the anniversary of the introduction of Medicare payments for
BY SEAN HEALY
Giant US soft drink company Coca-Cola is being sued in a US federal court for allegedly collaborating with death squads to kill, threaten and intimidate workers at Coca-Cola bottling plants in Colombia.
The suit was filed on July 20
BY NOREEN NAVIN
SYDNEY — Teachers and parents in Dulwich Hill, in Sydney's inner west, are rallying to defend their local high school, appealing for statewide industrial action if the NSW government decides to close the school.
The two-month
BY JEREMY SMITH
GEELONG — Five hundred people rallied on August 9 to protest against Labor Premier Steve Bracks, in town to open the Geelong Sheraton Hotel.
Most of the crowd were workers at Target whose jobs are under threat. Unionists in the
BY JACKIE LYNCH
MELBOURNE — A solidarity committee has been established by unionists and supporters, following criminal charges of riot, affray, aggravated burglary and criminal damage being laid against six members of the Australian
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