Ben Reid, Newcastle
On May 3, staff and students at the University of Newcastle learned of a management plan to slash some 450 jobs (over 20% of staff). The announcement has left staff angry that they will be responsible for paying for the
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On May 5, a union meeting of 300 police in PNG demanded that the Australian police serving in the country leave within 48 hours. In a statement, they explained that crime has risen since the 160 police arrived earlier this year. They also criticised
Karen Fletcher, Melbourne
La Trobe University was pretty much closed for business by a well-supported staff and student strike on May 4. Every major entrance to the university was blocked by union picket lines, campus coffee shops reported business
Message Stick: Nature/Ganggu Mama — A blind musician learns and masters the didgeridoo. ABC, Friday, May 13, 6pm.
Get Up Stand Up: We are the World — Looks at the link between music and politics. ABC, Saturday, May 14, 10pm.
Without Lying
Fred Fuentes
In the biggest march ever organised by the powerful Movement of Landless Workers (MST), around 13,000 peasants, accompanied by workers from occupied factories, indigenous peoples and others, set out from Goiania, Brazil, on May 2 to
ADELAIDE — On May 4, 1000 people attended a rally organised by the construction workers' union (CFMEU) to protest the Howard government's industrial relations agenda. The rally was timed to coincide with an employers' luncheon at which workplace
SYDNEY — On May 1, 100 people attended a meeting organised by the NSW Greens at the Newtown Hotel to discuss same-sex marriage laws. The meeting was addressed by Rodney Croome, gay rights advocate from Tasmania, Tasmanian Greens MP Nick McKim,
Kathy Newnam, Darwin
Another man has lost his life while being held under the federal government's policy of detaining foreigners caught fishing in Australian waters.
Muhammed Heri was the captain of a fishing boat taken into custody by
The British elections were not good news for New Labour PM Tony Blair. Although New Labour will have a workable majority of 66 seats, the 36% of the popular vote it won is the lowest ever for an incoming British government. Voters abandoned Labour in
On May 3, Brazil's government rejected a $40 million grant from the US to fight AIDS, explaining that its conditions were "too severe". The grant was conditional on Brazil's government taking a "moral" stand opposing, among other things,
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