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  • Meat inspectors' conditions for the chop?

    Meat inspectors' conditions for the chop?CANBERRA — Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service (AQIS) agency bargaining negotiations broke down on July 8 over the issue of conditions for meat inspectors and field-based

  • Protest condemns crackdown in East Timor

    BRISBANE — Fifty people attended a speak out in support of East Timor in the Queen Street Mall on July 15. The protest was called in response to the previous day's violent crackdown by Indonesian troops on a protest in Dili.

  • Queer conference stresses activism

    Queer conference stresses activismBRISBANE — Two hundred students from around the country attended the very successful Queer Collaborations Conference here from July 2-9. The conference opened with a rally at Albert

  • Socialist youth set goals

    Socialist youth set goalsSYDNEY — More than 250 people attended the 23rd Resistance National Conference here from July 8-10. Activists from around Australia, including Darwin, Perth and Launceston discussed the crisis of

  • SA's own Dan Quayle

    SA's own Dan QuayleADELAIDE — Single women are "going around getting pregnant to rort the system", according to state Liberal backbencher Joe Rossi. He has also been quoted by a suburban newspaper as saying that single

  • AWU: A union too far away

    AWU: A union too far awaySYDNEY — "What sort of workers movement is it when the 20 superunions in Australia only represent one group in society — the employers?", asked Bob Fuge at a Rank and File Alliance public

  • Campaign against privatisation

    Campaign against privatisationBRISBANE — A July 13 meeting of activists from trade unions and community groups decided to launch a campaign against the federal and state government's plans to privatise parts of the

  • National student women's conference

    National student women's conferenceSYDNEY — Over 400 women gathered at Macquarie University from July 11-15 for the annual Network of Women Students in Australia (NOWSA) conference, the theme of which was "Women working

  • Opposition to Grand Prix grows

    Opposition to Grand Prix growsMELBOURNE — Despite concerted government and media attempts to discredit the Save Albert Park campaign, thousands attended a second rally to protest plans to hold the Grand Prix at the

  • Public service ends base grade recruitment

    Public service ends base grade recruitmentCANBERRA — From September, the Australian Public Service is to end recruitment of regularly paid base grade (or ASO1) officers. These are to be replaced by "trainees". This has

  • Students reject ALP's anti-VSU

    Students reject ALP's anti-VSU "solution"MELBOURNE — Federal Minister for Employment, Education and Training Simon Crean's proposal to bypass state-based Voluntary Student Unionism (VSU) legislation with a federal law

  • More Aboriginal land cleared for Skyrail

    More Aboriginal land cleared for SkyrailKURANDA — On July 5 police forcefully removed protesters opposing the skyrail and arrested two people. Sixty protesters, mostly locals from Cairns and Kuranda, have been using