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  • Nightcap Forest Festival

    Nightcap Forest Festival Residents of Nimbin on NSW's north coast are gearing up for their spring Nightcap Forest Festival, to be held between October 1 and October 5. The festival will celebrate the 10th anniversary of the historic

  • Victorian alternative candidates have their say

    MELBOURNE — About 60 people attended an October 16 public meeting organised by Independent Action, a loose alliance linking left independents in the state elections. They heard three progressive candidates: Colleen Hartland

  • Talking union

    HOBART — Trespass charges against 54 waterside workers were adjourned until next March after they marched on the court here last week. The workers were arrested in a dispute over attempts to use non-union contract labour to unload a fishing

  • Groom to allow mining in national parks

    Groom to allow mining in national parksHOBART — The Tasmanian Liberal government has announced plans to allow mining in the state's national parks. Addressing a mining seminar in Hobart on September 16, Premier Ray Groom

  • Police bashing in Melbourne

    Police bashing in Melbourne MELBOURNE — An allegation of police violence has been reported to Green Left Weekly. The victim, Scott Baker, says he was walking to the local "7-Eleven" store in Fitzroy at about 3 p.m. when he was stopped by

  • Queensland poll changes little

    BRISBANE — In an election in which the major parties dodged most of the key issues, the Labor Party government has been returned at the September 19 Queensland poll. Despite late opinion polls showing a possible landslide to

  • Victorian branch of Green Party formed

    Victorian branch of Green Party formedMELBOURNE — A meeting of 20 people here on September 12 decided to form a Victorian branch of the Green Party. Among those in attendance were representatives from the

  • Loose cannons

    Great new ideas #573 "Labour's task is to identify with the hopes and aspirations of individual men and women across the country, so that they in turn identify with us." — From Agenda for Change, the British Labour Party's blueprint for

  • Mobil expansion threatens school, residents

    MELBOURNE — About 200 people attended a September 12 protest against the proposed Williamstown Mobil oil refinery expansion into a two-kilometre buffer zone around the plant. Construction in the zone, which

  • Public radio barred from NSW budget lockup

    Public radio barred from NSW budget lockupSYDNEY — Three journalists from public radio station 2SER-FM was denied entry to the September 15 NSW budget "lockup". According to current affairs producer Stafford Sanders, 2SER

  • Multiplex destroys reconciliation

    Multiplex destroys reconciliationPERTH — Building contractor Multiplex sent in workers with bulldozers to destroy the Grove of Reconciliation, a plantation of 50 trees on the old Swan Brewery site, on September 14.

  • EYA activities

    EYA activities The Environmental Youth Alliance's new office Sydney was launched on September 10. Indonesian environment activist Helmi Fauzi thanked EYA for the solidarity shown with the Third World, particularly EYA's efforts to protect