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Slap on the wrist for ERA
Kathy Newnam, Darwin
The Ranger uranium mine operator, Energy Resources Australia, has received a $150,000 fine by the Darwin Magistrates Court for breaching the Mining Management Act. ERA pleaded guilty
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The Socialist Alliance will hold its fourth national conference in Melbourne on June 12-13. Green Left Weekly sought the views of four leading Socialist Alliance activists on the future direction of the alliance.From Green Left Weekly, June 8, 2005.
CANBERRA — Chilean solidarity activists around Australia have been holding information evenings to raise awareness of the conditions of political prisoners being held in Chile and other Latin American jails.
Galvarino Sergio Apablaza Guerra, also
According to the Palestine National Information Centre's May 30 report on the Al Asqa Intifada, 4032 Palestinians, 750 of them children have died since September 2000. Of the total deaths, 732 were caused by Israeli shelling of Palestinian homes.
On May 27, hundreds of garment workers protested on the site of their collapsed workplace, demanding compensation for the injured, and families of workers killed or missing. The nine-storey Spectrum garments factory caved in the dead of night on
That Craig Johnston was released from jail on the very day that the Coalition government unveiled its new industrial relations laws warrants special attention by all those millions of Australian working people who will see their wages, job security
Sarah Stephen
When right-wing Murdoch columnist Andrew Bolt writes an open letter to PM John Howard calling for the release of children from detention, you can be sure that conservative elites are sniffing the popular mood in Australia and are
CANBERRA — On June 16, a majority of the members of the ACT Legislative Assembly from all major parties, as well as church and community leaders, will sign on to a Refugee Rights Charter and a call for the national capital to become a "refugee
MELBOURNE — On May 30, 30 people attended a meeting in Campbellfield, a northern suburb of Melbourne, to launch a local group to campaign against the federal government's attacks on workers' rights and welfare.
Dave Kerin, convenor of the Union
Susan Price, Sydney
On June 1, more than 1500 university and TAFE staff from campuses across Sydney were joined by students and unionists from other sectors for a rally and march. This was part of a national day of protest against the federal
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