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  • Anti-bases protest at Toowoomba

    Anti-bases protest at ToowoombaBRISBANE — About 40 demonstrators gathered at Borneo Barracks, Cabarlah on New Year's Day as "Toowoomba Mobilisation Opposing Bush". Cabarlah Army base, 19 km outside Toowoomba, is

  • DSS hassles Aidex protesters

    DSS hassles Aidex protestersBRISBANE — People who have attended the anti-Aidex protest in Canberra have been harassed by the Department of Social Security for their involvement. Beneficiaries who were arrested or

  • TAFE teachers muzzled

    Paula Nassif SYDNEY — TAFE teachers in NSW are concerned over threats of disciplinary action for making public comments. Labor Party assistant shadow education minister John Murray noted recently that two Wollongong teachers were reprimanded

  • Emerald Beach fight continues

    Emerald Beach fight continuesThe Look At Me Now headland, at Emerald Beach near Coffs Harbour, is still threatened by a proposed sewage outfall, despite a court ruling against the plans of the Coffs Harbour Council. On

  • Renfrey Clarke is getting married

    Renfrey Clarke, Green Left's Moscow correspondent, is getting married. Renfrey and Larissa, an actor from Novosibirsk, will be married in Moscow on January 22. Best wishes to both of them from the GL staff. Photo by Peter Annear.

  • Loose cannons

    Winners The Business Review Weekly, in association with Alcatel, held its business awards dinner in Sydney's Queen Victoria Building in early December. Then prime minister Bob Hawke awarded the Business Leader of the Year award to then chief

  • Greens launch election campaign

    HOBART — The Green Independents' lunchtime campaign launch on January 15 filled the 400-seat Hobart Town Hall to capacity, with another 200 people on the steps listening to speeches broadcast by loudspeakers. With the

  • TWU vote spells trouble for ACTU big-20 plan

    MELBOURNE — An important element of the ACTU's drive to amalgamate Australia's roughly 300 unions into about 20 mega-unions ran into trouble in December when rank and file workers defeated an attempt to shotgun the

  • Ex-miner to contest Lyons

    HOBART — Ian Jamieson, former president of the Tasmanian Mining Industry Union Council and current chair of the Rosebery Hospital Action Committee, is to contest the seat of Lyons as an independent in the February 1 state

  • Evans attacks picket of Indonesian Embassy

    Evans attacks picket of Indonesian EmbassyCANBERRA — Foreign Minister Gareth Evans is attempting to put an end to the East Timor picket of the Indonesian Embassy here. The picket has been maintained for the last two months

  • Entrance voters batter Greiner

    SYDNEY — The 5% swing against the Liberal NSW government of Nick Greiner in the January 18 Entrance by-election confirms the result of last May's general election: working people around the state are angry with the