Sarah Stephen
Four years after her unlawful deportation, and six months after its public revelation, Vivian Solon finally returned home from the Philippines on November 18.
Solon's family had listed her as a missing person since July 2003, and
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Canto Coro, a Brunswick-based community choir with a repertoire composed of new work and Latin American and Greek choral classics, and the popular Andean band Inka Marka, present the concert ABLAZE, featuring the beautiful music of Victor Jara.
Dave Holmes, Melbourne
Green Left Weekly has won the right to resume its Saturday morning stalls at the big Barkly Square shopping centre in the inner-Melbourne suburb of Brunswick.
After years of responsible and trouble-free operation, Green
Pip Hinman
The Melbourne-based Timor Sea Justice Campaign on November 23 described the Howard government's decision to discontinue funding to 13 East Timorese NGOs as "political interference".
Timor Sea Justice Campaign spokesperson Vanessa
Ruddock — no!'
LISMORE — On November 21, federal attorney-general Philip Ruddock was met by 120 protesters when he came to Lismore. The protest was organised by the Lismore Civil Rights Coalition and protesters chanted "Free speech — yes,
Susan Price, Sydney
On the night of November 22, following threats of eviction, the University of Newcastle moved to changed the locks on the offices of the National Tertiary Education Union on the campus.
The NTEU had previously made attempts at
SYDNEY — The International Labour Organisation has upheld an ACTU complaint that the Building and Construction Industry Improvement Act breaches ILO conventions on freedom of association and collective bargaining rights.
On November 21, the ILO
Dick Nichols
On November 22, the Queensland Nationals crossed the floor of the state parliament to vote with Premier Peter Beattie's Labor government and against their traditional Liberal Party allies over the Howard government's Work Choices
As an employee of a major regional newspaper group, getting a full-time job as a journalist in 2003 was conditional on signing an AWA (individual contract), there being no award offered.
Under the AWA there were no penalty rates for evenings, long
SYDNEY — The NSW Rural Fire Service Association (RFSA), representing the state's 70,000 rural firefighters, said it will campaign to retain the existing award protection for volunteer rural firefighters, which may be under threat from the federal
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