BY PETER BOYLE
An internet almanac of the 1960s, <http://www.milesago.com/Almanac/1966.htm#October>, records the Melbourne protests against the October 1966 visit of US President Lyndon Baines Johnson with this brief entry:
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BY DALE MILLS
SYDNEY — Will Saunders and David Burgess, the protesters who painted "No war" on the Sydney Opera House on March 18, at the beginning of the Iraq War, were convicted of malicious damage on October 2. The act achieved prominent media
"Crean joins PM in plans to hobble the Senate", read the Australian Financial Review's headline on October 9. The Labor Party's rapid cave-in on the federal Coalition's plans to nobble Australia's more representative federal house of parliament is a
BY BRONWYN POWELL
SYDNEY — In protest against federal government intervention into their enterprise bargaining agreement (EBA), Sydney University staff held a 24-hour strike on October 7. Four-hundred people picketed the entrances to the campus
BY PETER ROBSON
The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) has called a national strike for October 16 in protest against the federal Coalition government's proposed changes to staff conditions on universities. Liz Thompson, the national
BY BRADLEY SIMS
On October 4, 200 people crammed into Albany's Senior Citizens Hall, to support Albany's Hazara Afghan refugees and to show public opposition to deporting the Afghans who have made Albany home for three to four years.
No
BY KAMALA EMANUEL
LAUNCESTON — On October 1, the Tasmanian Industrial Commission reinstated 17 workers who had been locked out of the Blue Ribbon meatworks for 182 days and ordered they be paid for wages lost as a result of the lockout.
In her
BY JOHN NEBAUER
ADELAIDE — Women gathered in the Women's Pioneer Memorial Gardens on October 8 to launch this year's poster for the annual Reclaim the Night march, to be held on October 31.
Local artist and Reclaim the Night collective member
DARWIN — The Top End's power-funk outfit Neo has timed the release of the band's new song, "Wrecking Ball", and its film clip to coincide with Refugee Week.
The launch will be held at Darwin's Deckchair Cinema on October 21, at 7pm and will be
NEW YORK — As many as 100,000 people rallied in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens on October 4 to demand an amnesty and better working conditions for undocumented workers. The demonstration was the climax of the Immigrant Workers Freedom
BY PIP HINMAN
Just four months ago, when Bush declared "major combat operations" in Iraq to be over, the US ruling class was sure its gamble to break international law, dismiss the UN and go against the unprecedented global opposition to the war
Howard hanged
SYDNEY — On October 9, students at University of Western Sydney-Bankstown "hanged" Prime Minister John Howard!
Students found Howard guilty of attacking trade unions, the inhumane treatment of refugees, attacking and
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