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Tony Iltis, Melbourne On May 29, Preston Markets management called the police to a Socialist Alliance campaign stall. Since 1999, the stall has been held regularly on Saturdays at the markets. Activists at the stall were leafleting for the June

Stuart Munckton& Sarah Alamein, Sydney "Why do we need a brand new garden bed? I just want access to courses!" said University of Western Sydney (UWS) student Melissa Abram to 100 cheering students on September 8 at a speak-out against course cuts

Susan Austin, Hobart When the news broke on March 30 that a local El Salvadoran family was being threatened with deportation, the Socialist Alliance and Tasmanians for Refugees called a protest action for that afternoon. The Refugee Review

Sarah Stephen A new report by the Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission (HREOC) details the horrifying conditions that refugees and their children are subjected to in Australia's detention centres — violence and despair, self-mutilation

Nicola Paris, Perth Despite overwhelming opposition, Western Australia's Labor government and the Cable Sands mining company are intent on mining the last tall tuart forest in the world, in Ludlow, near Busselton, in WA's south-west. All approvals

Susan Austin, Hobart Progressive people in Tasmania shook their heads with disappointment at the initial results of the state's March 18 House of Assembly election. Pre-election polling indicated the Greens were likely to win one-third of the votes

Greg Wilton, vice-president of the WA Electrical Trades Union: Craig Johnston led from the front, not from behind. He got out there and stood up for workers' rights and against the casualisation of the work force. The fact that these charges have

SYDNEY — Thirty people attended a protest outside the South Korean consulate on August 14 in opposition to Korean troops in Iraq, organised by the Sydney Korean Progressive Alliance. Speakers included representatives of the Stop the War Coalition,

Bruce Marlowe, Sydney Seeing Red, the new magazine of social, political and cultural dissent recently initiated by the Socialist Alliance, is going through its launch phase. Last week the magazine "blasted off" in four east coast cities — Sydney,

Rachel Evans At a National Marriage Coalition forum held in Canberra on August 4, federal Labor shadow attorney-general Nicola Roxon said the ALP would pass the Howard government's gay marriage ban during the current sitting of parliament. The

1 Wilkie: 'Troops out of Iraq!' MELBOURNE — On April 22, 400 people crammed into the Victorian Trades Hall Council chambers to hear former intelligence officer Andrew Wilkie speak. The forum was organised by the Humanist Society and the

Alexis Vassiley In the wake of the National Union of Students' national education conference, held at the University of Sydney on June 30-July 2, student activists around the country have called for rallies to be held in mid August to protest the