Jay Fletcher, Wollongong At least 150 students participated in an open-air forum organised by Wollongong University's Students Against War collective entitled "No Peace Without Justice - what the media doesn't want you to know about the war on
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Lebanon/Gaza attacks We are horrified at the slaughter of civilians and destruction of homes and infrastructure that has occurred and continues in Lebanon, Israel and Gaza. The Israeli action constitutes collective punishment of the Lebanese
Annolies Truman, Perth The conference of the WA branch of the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) in Fremantle on July 26-28 strongly condemned the use of section 457 visas, used by employers to bring guest workers to Australia. It denounced the
Ema Corro, Melbourne In 2002, the French companies Connex and Alstom, international investors in Melbourne's Citypass Consortium, won a 30-year tender to operate a light-rail system between illegal Israeli settlements around Jerusalem. The contract
Steve Mather With punches being thrown and the odd chair flying through the air, it was clear there was a good old-fashioned union debate taking place on May 27. The different factions or currents within the National Union of Workers (UNT, the
Doug Lorimer On August 4, hundreds of thousands of Iraqi Shiites marched through the streets of Baghdad chanting "Death to Israel" and "Death to America" in the largest foreign show of support for Lebanon's Shiite-based Hezbollah resistance fighters
Warren Smith, Sydney The Maritime Union of Australia (NSW) is campaigning for the foreshore redevelopment of Sussex Street wharves in East Darling Harbour to be renamed "The Hungry Mile" in recognition of the men and women who worked the wharves and
Kerry Smith On August 7, the Edmund Rice Centre (ERC) released information indicating that up to nine asylum seekers and several of their children were killed upon return to Afghanistan after they were detained on Nauru by the Australian government.
Tony Iltis, Melbourne Following several weeks of mass demonstrations against Israel's wars on Lebanon and Palestine, there have been calls in the corporate media for the federal government to make it illegal for anti-war protesters to carry
Peace concertMonday Sept. 11, 7pmHarp Hotel, Princess Highway, Tempe$15/$10 Enda Kenny, who has been described as "Australia's finest contemporary singer-songwriter" will perform in a once-only concert to raise money for a children's hospital in
Margaret Holmes: The Life and Times of an Australian Peace CampaignerBy Michelle CavanaghNew Holland, 2006319 pages, $29.95 (pb) REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON Prime Minister Robert Menzies, two weeks after his Coalition government had reintroduced
Fred Fuentes Students across Australia are organising against Israel's barbarous war on the people of Lebanon and Palestine. Anti-war activists have hit campuses with speak-outs, public meetings, stalls and petitions, resuscitating and broadening
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