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  • Public sector strike

    Public sector strikeMELBOURNE — There was a 70-80% stay-away rate of Public Sector Union members here during the strike on October 25. Picket lines were set up at all major public service offices in the city (ATO,

  • Mass walkout by ACT secondary students

    CANBERRA — In one of the largest expressions of student anger in recent history, 2500 college students walked out of classes on October 27, in protest at education and teacher cuts. This represents about 40% of all college

  • Governments prepare to bury mental health report

    Coolibah is a day centre, run by the Brotherhood of St Laurence, for isolated older people in Melbourne's inner city. But according to the Barry Pearce, the centre's coordinator, these days Coolibah is constantly having to turn

  • Reclaim the Night even bigger this year

    Reclaim the Night marches, against protesting violence against women, gathered more support than ever around the country this year. Green Left Weekly spoke to women who attended marches in just some of the many centres in

  • Teachers to stand

    ADELAIDE — The October 30 State Council meeting of the South Australian Institute of Teachers endorsed SAIT president Clare McCarty to stand as an Education Independent for the Legislative Council in the state elections.

  • Green Alliance campaign under way

    ADELAIDE — Green Alliance launched its campaign and selected candidates for the state elections at a meeting here on October 30. Trish Corcoran and Col Smith will stand in the Legislative Council. Green Left Weekly spoke to both

  • Blacks oppose CRA mine pipeline

    Blacks oppose CRA mine pipelineBRISBANE — Aborigines at the Doomadgee community in north-west Queensland have confronted mining giant CRA over plans to build a zinc slurry pipeline to the sea near their land. On

  • Learning about history

    Learning about history "We're not putting him up there as a role model of any sort. What Milken did in the whole junk bond period really did change the face of corporate America, and I don't think there is any more dramatic way of learning about

  • PSU delegate victimised

    MELBOURNE — Ray Fulcher, a Public Sector Union delegate for Department of Social Security Area West B Victoria, has had his rights to use departmental facilities withdrawn. In a letter dated October 27, Kerry Blackburn, the

  • Women strike at Triumph International

    BRISBANE — More than 300 women workers at Triumph International women's underwear factories at Ipswich and Wynnum went on strike from October 26. The strike is in response to the refusal of the company (trading as the House of

  • PSU election challenge in Tasmania

    Hobart — The Independent Reform Group will stand candidates for all official Public Sector Union positions in the November PSU Tasmanian branch elections. The IRG will be campaigning particularly against what it calls

  • Risk report on Mobil reversed

    MELBOURNE — The consultants who reported that Mobil's Williamstown refinery expansion plans did not meet state safety guidelines have reversed their findings following a demand by the Victorian government that they review