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  • WA campaigners fight logging

    PERTH — Decisions on Western Australia's woodchip licence renewals are expected to be made by the federal government prior to Christmas. While the federal minister for the environment, Senator Faulkner, has

  • Anti-fees protests in Adelaide

    Anti-fees protests in AdelaideADELAIDE — One hundred and fifty people attended a "No Fees" rally at Adelaide University on October 27. The rally was organised by the socialist youth

  • Kuranda skyrail dispute escalates

    CAIRNS — Despite the threat of legal injunctions, activists opposed to the building of a private 7.5 kilometre tourist cable car in World Heritage-listed national park between Cairns and Kuranda, north of

  • Kill first, ask questions later

    Kill first, ask questions laterPERTH — Police action toward armed persons has become an issue again following the shooting of Ray Gould by the tactical response group (TRG) early on October 26.

  • Loose cannons

    Ambitious "Honest, there really isn't much wrong with our party that winning a federal election wouldn't fix." — Liberal MP Tony Abbott. Career path "Unless and until women become more active in the factions, change is not

  • DSS dispute escalates

    DSS dispute escalatesMELBOURNE — Community and Public Sector Union members in the Department of Social Security voted on October 19 to escalate industrial action in a dispute over staffing and resources.

  • 16,000 sign on to protect forests

    SYDNEY — The damp but determined Fast for the Forest team announced on October 23 that they had collected 16,000 signatures calling for a moratorium on the logging and woodchipping of old growth forests. Lisa,

  • Dope conviction in Darwin

    Dope conviction in Darwin By Rob Wesley-Smith DARWIN — In a court here on October 17 Magistrate McGregor imposed a 12-month good behaviour bond on a man convicted of possessing about a kilo of dope. The "offence"

  • Agency bargaining revived in HSH

    Agency bargaining revived in HSHCANBERRA — Agency bargaining in the Commonwealth Department of Human Services and Health (HSH) has been resurrected from near death by the national officials of the Community

  • Trafficking in Asian sex workers

    As a clothing machinist in Manila unable to feed and house her small son, Susie accepted a job offer of sex work in Sydney. "I am here", she says, "to work hard, and in six months I will go home and buy a house and have

  • SA public sector conditions threatened

    SA public sector conditions threatenedADELAIDE — Attacks on workers in the state public sector have been unrelenting since the election of the Brown Liberal government last December.

  • National Day of Action: East Timor

    On October 15, Resistance organised a National Day of Action for freedom in East Timor. Across Australia people rallied around the demands "Indonesia out of East Timor" and " Australia out of the Timor Gap". The day mobilised thousands of people and