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Tunnel protest SYDNEY — Anti-freeway groups and Greenpeace have urged people to protest at the opening of the Harbour Tunnel by carrying placards during the Rotary Harbour Tunnel fundraising walk on August 30. Greenpeace transport

LISMORE — Forest protesters have again set up camp in northern NSW, this time at Mummel Gulf. The protesters are organised by the North-East Forest Alliance, responsible for last year's Chaelundi blockade and another protest

Green Party launch setMELBOURNE — A national Green Party is to be launched at the end of this month, Janet Rice from the Melbourne-based Green Politics Network (GPN) told a meeting here on August 5. Speaking at a meeting

Third runway above the law SYDNEY — "On July 29, the federal government moved quietly, one might say stealthily, to exempt the Federal Airports Corporation from all NSW state environmental and planning laws", says NSW Democrat MP Richard

BURNIE — Paper giant APPM has announced plans to cut 400 jobs at its Burnie and Wesley Vale mills. The company is also pressing for big changes in hours and conditions not agreed to in the settlement of the momentous

Obviously "People are obviously rehiring." — Prime Minister Paul Keating on the drop in the latest unemployment figure from 11.1% to 11%. Model prisoner Former Wall Street junk bond king Michael Milken, sentenced to 10 years' jail in

Victory for Midford womenWOLLONGONG — Seventy five women who had been picketing the Midford Paramount clothing factory because their former employer owed them $450,000 in superannuation and retrenchment entitlements have

Environment groups boycott talks National environment groups discussing greenhouse strategy with the federal government pulled out of talks in Canberra on August 6. They said that despite nearly two years of talks, the government had still not

WA Aboriginal act draws protestsPERTH — Objections have been pouring in to the WA government since Aboriginal communities were given 30 days to consider the newly rewritten Aboriginal Heritage Act, due to come before

Jobless groups plan national linkROSEBERY, Tas — Unemployed groups took some steps towards national liaison in a teleconference on July 31. The link, involving groups from South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, NSW and

Tasmanian readers We apologise for the unavailability of issue number 64, which was not delivered to Tasmania because of an industrial dispute in the transport industry. Copies of issue 64 are now available from your usual seller or the

Tas mineworkers form unemployed groupROSEBERY, Tas — About 60 people have joined the newly formed West Coast Unemployed Workers Union, set up on the initiative of mineworkers retrenched by Pasminco, a North Broken Hill