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  • First Reclaim the Night march held in Maitland

    Kerry Vernon, Maitland Two-hundred women, their relatives and supporters marched along Maitland's main street on the night of October 28 in the first Reclaim the Night event to be held in this city of 54,000 residents. Led by 83-year-old feminist

  • WA police break-up forest protest camp

    Chris Latham, Perth On August 17, 40 police broke up the six-week-old Forest Rescuers' protest camp in the Ludlow Forest near Busselton in south-west Western Australia, evicting 70 protesters. The move against the camp followed the granting of

  • Two-thirds favour Iraq troop pull-out

    Doug Lorimer Almost two-thirds of Australians want all Australian troops to be withdrawn from Iraq immediately or no later than May, a telephone poll of 500 randomly selected Australians conducted from March 10-13 found. Australia was one the

  • ACT teachers demand equal pay

    CANBERRA — On May 10, 4000 primary, secondary and Canberra Institute of Technology teachers participated in a stop-work meeting followed by a rally outside the ACT Legislative Assembly. The ACT branch of the Australian Education Union (AEU)

  • Activist jailed for drug protest

    Kathy Newnam, Darwin On October 19, social justice campaigner Stuart Highway was sentenced to eight months' jail, suspended after three months, for his involvement in a smoke-in on October 2002. The smoke-in, organised by the drug-law reform

  • 'We got it wrong' on refugees says Labor candidate

    Nick Everett, Canberra "We got it wrong" on refugees, Kel Watt, the Labor candidate for the federal seat of Eden-Monaro, told an August 12 public forum in the south-east NSW town of Braidwood, organised by the local branch of Rural Australians for

  • Justice for Palestine!

    Nick Everett, Canberra More than 60 people rallied outside the Israeli embassy on May 1, including supporters of Australians for Justice and Peace in Palestine and a delegation of Palestine solidarity activists from Sydney. Anglican bishop of

  • Militants discuss building fighting unions

    Sue Bull, Geelong On July 31, militant unionists from Melbourne and Ballarat converged on Geelong for a day of discussions with local unionists about how to build unions that are fighting instruments in defence of their members' economic and

  • Loose cannons

    Unoccupied I "This is [US President George] Bush's 33rd visit to his ranch since becoming president. He has spent all or part of 233 days on his Texas ranch since taking office, according to a tally by CBS News. Adding his 78 visits to Camp David

  • Aids council defunded

    Robyn Marshall, Brisbane On July 21, 70 people gathered outside the Queensland parliament to protest the defunding of the Queensland Aids Council (QuAC). For nearly 20 years, QuAC has delivered high quality services to people with HIV/AIDS.

  • Thousands protest as student anger boils over

    Stuart Munckton With Iggy Pop's "Lust for Life" booming from the sound system provided by the Reclaim the Streets collective, 700 students stormed into the main building of the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) on March 31. The protest was

  • Socialists launch election campaign

    Paul Benedek, Sydney One-hundred people packed the Newtown Neighbourhood Centre on July to launch the Socialist Alliance's federal election campaign across Sydney. Compered by Raul Bassi, the Socialist Alliance's Blaxland candidate, the launch