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  • Loose cannons

    All relative "There is no democracy in preselection , and we need to democratise our party ... we need a more broad-based selection committee who will look at people not because they are someone's relative but because they deserve it." — NSW

  • Court government to close schools

    Court government to close schoolsPERTH — Despite the "I'm not Jeff Kennett and this is not Victoria" rhetoric during the 1993 state election campaign from Liberal leader Richard Court, his school closure program has all

  • Cops mistreat logging protesters

    Cops mistreat logging protestersMELBOURNE — Police use of neck holds to remove protesters from an anti-logging picket on the February 11 has been condemned by medical experts as highly dangerous.

  • Employers plan to break waterfront union

    "The company's intention to extend the further utilisation of supplementaries [casuals] at the expense of permanent employees is yet a further example of the confrontationist tactics and policies within the stevedoring industry

  • Stoned Week planned

    Stoned Week plannedBRISBANE — The focus of the University of Queensland's O-Week and Recovery Week in 1994 is the decriminalisation of marijuana. This will culminated in the organisation of a Stoned Week, including a

  • Youth graffiti

    Youth graffiti BRISBANE — A Resistance "Graffiti for Youth Rights" action was held in the city mall on Friday, February 4. The stall and banner graffiti took up issues such as the Liberal candidate for lord mayor's proposed youth curfew in the

  • Loose cannons

    Democrat "We don't have a problem with people coming from other sides. But if the ANC comes here I will order my people to kill them." — Katlehong Inkatha Freedom Party youth leader Jeffrey Sibiya, quoted in the Sunday Times, January 23.

  • Ocean dumping slammed

    Ocean dumping slammedHOBART — About 100 people gathered outside federal Labor minister Duncan Kerr's office at lunchtime on February 11 to protest the against latest exemption granted to Pasminco Metals-EZ, which allows

  • Goss picket at UQ

    Goss picket at UQBRISBANE — Due to a decline in the effectiveness of the ALP club at the University of Queensland, Premier Wayne Goss will be visiting the St Lucia campus on Wednesday, February 16, as part of a recruiting

  • Protesters confront Indonesian minister

    Protesters confront Indonesian ministerMELBOURNE — A picket was organised outside the World Congress Centre on February 8 by Environmental Youth Alliance, the Indonesian solidarity group Aksi and Resistance to highlight

  • SA Liberals target health, Workcover

    ADELAIDE — When state parliament convened on February 9, it started to bring home the dramatic changes the new Liberal government intends to make in favour of employers, at the expense of the public and workers. Along

  • Protests over Bougainville

    Protests over Bougainville Around 30 protesters picketed the AMP building, home of the mining giant CRA, in Brisbane on February 10. The protest, organised by the Bougainville Freedom Movement as part of a national day of action, aimed to