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ACTU retreats on aid to phoney union The ACTU appears to have been forced to retreat on plans for a large scale program of cooperation with the Suharto regime's puppet trade union, the SPSI. Several weeks after publication in Solidarity

Government funds moralistic sex bookletHOBART — A sex information booklet entitled "The Things You Do For Love" was launched here on July 16. The 12-page glossy booklet is a joint project of the Pregnancy Support

Pro-choice picketBRISBANE — A group of noisy, energetic protesters formed a powerful picket here on July 12 in King George Square under the eye of the recently installed "security camera". The group called for

PERTH — State government proposals to amalgamate the privately owned St John of God with the publicly owned Bunbury regional hospital have brought to the fore the issue of abortion rights and job losses. If the plan is

Victorian police face murder chargesMELBOURNE — Years of campaigning by the families of two of the 11 men shot by police between 1987 and 1989 have been partially successful. The director of public prosecutions, Bernard

SYDNEY — A mass meeting of cleaners from the NSW Cleaning Service (a state government department), on a 24-hour strike, filled the Sydney Town Hall to capacity on July 16. Numerous simultaneous meetings in country centres

Rally for peace in Bosnia Story and photo by Jon Lamb SYDNEY — More than 800 people rallied and marched here on July 17 to protest against the continuing acts of violence and aggression towards women and children in

Community protests killing of SomalisMELBOURNE — "We are demonstrating to show Australian people and the international community how angry and upset we are with the continual killings of Somalians by the UN troops in

WA rail jobs to be cutPERTH — Westrail announced on July 13 that a further 460 jobs will be cut, in addition to the 750 to be lost with the planned closure of the Midland railway workshops. The 460 jobs will be

Opposition to Mt Wellington planHOBART — A proposal to construct a cable car, revolving restaurant and artificial ski field on Mt Wellington — the beautiful, largely untouched, backdrop to the city — has state

ADELAIDE — Public sector workers have been the first victims of the state Labor government's attempts to solve its economic problems. The government announced in its April economic statement that 3000 jobs would be cut

MELBOURNE — Members of the AMEU at the Isuzu plant in Dandenong have gone out in protest at the company's refusal to negotiate adequate redundancy packages. Upon news of the plant's closure and Isuzu's shoddy proposals for