Dave Riley, Brisbane Members of the Murri community and their supporters rallied and marched on September 1, in the week that the state inquest into the death in custody of Cameron Doomadgee on Palm Island on November 19, 2004, wound up. The inquest
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Sarah Stephen The seven judges of the High Court's full bench ruled unanimously on April 29 that the Family Court did not have the authority to release children from immigration detention or make orders about their welfare. Constitutional lawyer
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Monopoly capitalism at work "California Attorney General Bill Lockyer today announced the distribution of [US]$407,454 in refund checks to 701 California cancer patients who overpaid for the Bristol-Myers Squibb (Bristol) drug Taxol... The Taxol
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Roxana Fuentes, Sydney On September 6, the Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Union (LHMU) announced that the ISS office cleaning company had agreed to sign on to the principles of the union's Clean Start: Fair Deal for Cleaners campaign. "Today
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2 Rio Tinto protest: 'Human rights, not mining sites' BRISBANE — Anti-nuclear, West Papuan and Indigenous rights advocates joined together on April 22 to picket corporate mining giant Rio Tinto's Australian annual general meeting at the
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2 Coalition against racism formed PERTH — Up to 100 people attended a meeting on July 24 called by the Ethnic Communities Council in response to a spate of racist graffiti and vandalism. The attacks took place on July 17-19 and have been
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Unknown activists put up cardboard cut-outs of soldiers around this city to commemorate September 11, 2001.
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Sarah Stephen SYDNEY — On April 10, 250 people rallied in support of refugees in Bradfield Park, Kirribilli. Organised by the Refugee Action Coalition, the protest marked the third year that refugee-rights supporters have converged over the
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Chris Latham, Perth On July 22, Australian Education Union WA school representatives condemned state education minister Allan Carpenter for planned unilateral changes to teachers' working conditions. On July 8, two days prior to the end of second
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Kay Moore, Lismore Three-hundred women attended the 16th Network of Women Students Australia (NOWSA) conference on July 12-16. The conference discussed the impact of sexism, racism, homophobia and war on women. Guest speakers at the conference
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Tim Stewart, Melbourne A September 15-16 national symposium hosted by the Beyond Nuclear Initiative — a collaboration between Friends of the Earth, the Australian Conservation Foundation and the Poola Foundation (Tom Kantor Fund) — featured
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Paul Oboohov, Canberra The campaign to save the O'Connor and Bruce Ridge from the Gungahlin Drive extension escalated on March 22, when up to 100 protesters blockaded the work site. Nine people were arrested over two days of protests, organised by