SYDNEY — Queer activists protested outside the $100-a-head fundraising dinner held by Fred Nile's Christian Democratic Party on September 13. Nile is leaving his NSW parliamentary seat to contest the Senate in the federal election. Nile has
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Dianne Hiles, Sydney The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) undertook an inquiry during 2002 into children in immigration detention. On May 13, the report, "A Last Resort?", and its recommendations were tabled, very quietly, in
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Sue Bolton, Melbourne Back in March, federal finance minister Nick Minchin was sprung telling the right-wing HR Nicholls Society that the federal government had plans to introduce further changes to industrial relations laws after the next federal
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Rachel Evans A total of 400 people in Melbourne, Sydney and Canberra took part in rallies in the week following the federal Coalition government's June 13 disallowing of the ACT's civil unions law. The law had granted legal recognition to same-sex
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Socialist Alliance's Sue Bull reports from the election campaign trail on September 11. Armed with a one-tonne ute, a two-metre-high billboard, red flags and a megaphone, Socialist Alliance candidates Tim Gooden and Chris Johnson headed off into
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Anthony Defraine & Tom Flanagan, Lismore Students and staff held a spirited protest outside the Southern Cross University council meeting on May 21. The council was initially expected to consider increasing HECS charges for 2005. Although a
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Chris Latham, Perth On July 29, 200 people gathered in the city to express their opposition to Israel's wars on Lebanon and Palestine. The rally, called by the recently formed Just Peace in the Middle East, was addressed by members of Perth's
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Dirk van Dalen & Liam Mitchell The retailer Spotlight has imposed Australian Workplace Agreements on staff, giving a $0.02 per hour wage rise in exchange for eliminating penalty rates, rest breaks, and overtime and holiday pay rates. The result is
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Abolish profit system, says socialist candidate BRISBANE — "We need a total change in politics. We need a new society, for the millions, not the millionaires", Coral Wynter, the Socialist Alliance candidate for the federal seat of Brisbane, told
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Freedom of speech under a cloud ADELAIDE — On May 14, Adelaide's Murdoch-owned sole daily paper, the Advertiser, reported that the Adelaide City Council had passed new by-laws that place restrictions on the "handing out of advertising material
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BRISBANE — The rotten individual contract that fabric retailer Spotlight is trying to "persuade" its employees to sign has so enraged people that protests are being held outside Spotlight stores around the country. In Brisbane, 60 people protested
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Ben Cavalli& Fred Fuentes, Perth The highest decision making body of academics at University of Western Australia (UWA), the academic board, narrowly voted on August 11 to recommend that the UWA senate reject the current proposal to introduce