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  • Residents protest against freeway

    Residents protest against freewayMELBOURNE — About 70 people protested on August 12 against Premier Jeff Kennett's City Link mega-freeway project, which will link the eastern and the Tullamarine freeways. The

  • Mt Isa enterprise deal

    Mt Isa enterprise dealBRISBANE — Workers at the MIM Mt Isa mine voted overwhelmingly to accept a new enterprise deal on August 10, ending a nine-month dispute which involved strikes, bans and a major lockout.

  • VC tries to pull plug on La Trobe SRC

    MELBOURNE — The La Trobe University administration has upped the stakes in long-running negotiations over funding between the administration and the La Trobe University Student Representative Council. In a letter dated

  • Women's Party launched in Brisbane

    Women's Party launched in BrisbaneBRISBANE — A new party, the Australian Women's Party, was launched here on August 11. AWP secretary Jenny Hughey, a former president of Queensland Labor Women, said equal

  • Loose cannons

    Australian culture @lctext = "She [Annita Keating ] is accompanying the orchestra and doing some PR for us and Australian culture. It is a cultural ambassador sort of thing." — Sydney Symphony Orchestra publicist on what the PM's wife will be

  • Residents oppose freeway proposal

    Residents oppose freeway proposalMELBOURNE — According to Transurban, the company that will build and run this city's mega-freeway project, we are about to get a "sculptured northern gateway" on the expanded

  • Anti-nuclear campaign: people vs politicians

    The results of a survey conducted by the NSW branch of People for Nuclear Disarmament, released last week, reveal that only 36 of the 221 federal politicians oppose nuclear weapons. All federal politicians were

  • Workers win settlement at Steel-Line Doors

    Workers win settlement at Steel-Line DoorsBRISBANE — Seventeen Spanish-speaking workers at the Steel-Line Doors plant here have won a record settlement totalling a reported $120,000, after a hearing presided

  • Mining memorial unveiled

    Mining memorial unveiledWOLLONGONG — A memorial to pay tribute to the courage, struggle and sacrifice by coalminers in the Illawarra region was unveiled by the NSW Premier Bob Carr on July 28, outside the

  • CEPU elections in WA

    CEPU elections in WAPERTH — A group of left unionists is campaigning for election in the WA electrical division of the CEPU (Communications, Electrical and Plumbing Union). Vince George, Owen Wood and Ken

  • Indonesian solidarity campaign launched

    Indonesian solidarity campaign launchedCriminal proceedings are to be brought against seven student and worker activists from the independent trade union PPBI (Indonesian Centre for Labour Struggle) and the

  • Rally for Bosnia

    Rally for BosniaADELAIDE — More than 1500 Bosnians and their supporters marched and rallied here on August 5, calling for an end to the arms embargo and the ethnic genocide being carried out in their homeland.