1000 protest in Daylesford
BY MARG MURPHY
DAYLESFORD, Victoria — Inspired by the February 14 massive mobilisation in Melbourne, around 1000 residents took over the main street on February 22 to say "no to war". The arriving crowd was greeted by
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BY GILLIAN DAVY
MELBOURNE — RMIT University has made a landmark commitment to support refugees and asylum seekers, with a range of bold initiatives being implemented this year. RMIT plans to urge other Australian universities, through the
BY
TIM GOODEN
GEELONG Answering a call from the Victorian branch of the Construction,
Forestry, Mining and Energy Union for shop stewards to fly banners of peace
on construction sites, members have found that even a peace symbol needs
to
BY ROHAN PEARCE
"There will not be a safe place in Baghdad", an unnamed Pentagon official told the US news network CBS on January 24."You're sitting in Baghdad and all of a sudden you're the general and 30 of you at division headquarters have been
SYDNEY A cappella
ensemble Ecopella will launches its first CD, An Organism Called Earth,
on March 1 at the Newtown Neighbourhood Centre.
Founded in 1998, the Sydney-based Ecopella was the first Australian
choir to focus its repertoire on
BY JOHN PILGER
[The following speech was delivered at the anti-war rally in Sydney on February 16, which was attended by 500,000 people.]
On this historic day, we should be very clear about one thing: George Bush, Tony Blair and John Howard are
BY SARAH STEPHEN
Betty Dixon, a 73-year-old grandmother from Goulburn, NSW, is an indication of the growing diversity of the refugees' rights movement.
Dixon describes herself as an activist. She has visited Woomera detention centre three times
BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE
HOBART — The Unions Tasmania Council, the peak union body in the state, issued a statement from its meeting on February 13 opposing a unilateral US war on Iraq.
However, the statement supports UN calls on Iraq to "surrender
BY EMMA CLANCY
The March 5 student strike appears is set to become the next big, nationally coordinated anti-war protest across Australia. Hundreds of students attended meetings to organise the strike on the February 14-16 weekend, after
BY MICK BULL
& SUE BOLTON
The campaign by the construction division of the Construction, Forestry,
Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) to extend the 36-hour working week to all
building workers, regardless of which state they happen to be
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