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  • Campaign to lower the voting age

    Amanda Zivcic, Wollongong Wollongong Resistance and Illawarra Socialist Alliance have embarked on a joint campaign to lower the voting age to 16. Raffaele Fantasia, a year-11 student at Edmund Rice College, told Green Left Weekly: "Young people

  • Campaign demands a fair go for East Timor

    Vannessa Hearman MELBOURNE — On April 14, 50 members of the Timor Sea Justice Campaign met outside the High Court to launch the group. Comedian Rod Quantock was joined by protesters disguised as Prime Minister John Howard and foreign minister

  • Militant mood at cross-union delegates' meeting

    Ben Courtice, Melbourne PM John Howard is "Public Enemy No 1" and "we must get him out of office", Victorian Trades Hall Council (VTHC) secretary Brian Boyd told 1800 union delegates on March 29. Boyd announced the next union protests against

  • Campaign planned for south-east forests

    SYDNEY — "After twenty years of conflict, division in local communities and environmental destruction, the South East Forest Protection Bill gives Australia its best chance to free the forests of the bulldozer and chainsaw and

  • Medical experts challenge nuclear myths

    Kathy Newnam, Darwin At a November 23 public forum, 50 people heard three Medical Association for the Prevention of War members challenge the myth that the Lucas Heights nuclear reactor in Sydney is necessary on medical grounds. Dr Peter Tait

  • News briefs

    DARWIN — A Timor Sea Justice Campaign public meeting and video night on July 21 heard the latest developments in the campaign to stop the Australian government's theft of East Timor's oil and gas resources. Solidarity activist Robyn Waite, who

  • Trades Hall meeting against Mater privatisation

    Simon Jones, Newcastle On March 31, 550 people crowded into a public meeting against the NSW Labor government's planned part-privatisation of the Mater Hospital. The meeting was organised by the Newcastle Trades Hall Council's Defend Public Health

  • Victorian conference prepares struggle

    Dick Nichols, Melbourne The March 18 Victorian state conference of the Socialist Alliance, held in Melbourne's Trades Hall, focused on the fight against the Howard government's Work Choices legislation and its racist policies against Muslim and

  • Penrith union protest

    SYDNEY — On November 4, 50 people rallied outside the electorate office of federal Liberal MP Jackie Kelly in the western suburb of Penrith to protest against the Howard government's planned new IR laws. Members of the manufacturing and

  • 'Green-Black alliance' discussed

    Alex Milne, Melbourne The 2004 Students of Sustainability conference was held at La Trobe University on July 11-14. Around 500 environmentalists and other activists, from interstate and overseas, attended. As always, there was an impressive

  • Showing heart for refugees

    Andrew Hall, Canberra Multi-coloured hearts have been signed and decorated with refugee-rights slogans and images to create the "field of hearts". This growing project provides a vehicle for people to symbolically "show their hearts for

  • Regional Victoria mobilises: 'stop ripping off workers!'

    Sue Bull, Geelong Trades halls and labour councils throughout regional Victoria are mobilising their members for big rallies in November against the federal Coalition government's proposed industrial relations laws. There will be community