CANBERRA — A new campaign urging the Howard government not to proceed with its proposed security treaty with Indonesia was launched on September 15 by former West Papuan politicians Willem Zonggonau and Clemens Runawery, and Greens Senator Bob
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Jim McIlroy, Brisbane "Time for a change: Refugees; Iraq; Medicare; social services; education; Aboriginal rights. Join a range of community groups to say 'enough is enough'." This call is featured on publicity for Brisbane's "Time for a change"
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Sarah Stephen On March 23, the immigration department announced that 42 of the 43 West Papuan asylum seekers who arrived in Australia on January 18 and have been held on Christmas Island since then, had been granted refugee status. They will be
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Noreen Navin, Sydney NSW Teachers Federation president Maree O'Halloran announced on May 21 that the union's executive would decide at its meeting on May 24 the date for a 48-hour strike of NSW public school teachers. The strike is being called
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Despite its decision to lift martial law in Aceh, Jakarta refuses to withdraw any of its 40,000 troops from the province, to lift the ban on protests or to allow international observers in. A protest in Sydney will coincide with the two-year
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SYDNEY — Thirty people attended a moving video presentation organised by the Canterbury-Bankstown Peace Group on September 9 that focused on the US torture prison at Guantanamo Bay and the campaign for the return of David Hicks and Mamdouh Habib.
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As the Green Left Weekly website continues to be the number 1 political website in Australia, we're discovering its prominence on the search engine Google. A friend of one of our Canberra GLW distributors wanted to catch up with the latest gossip
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PORT MACQUARIE — On March 5, 60 people attended a screening of David Bradbury's new documentary Blowin' in the Wind, which focusses on the use by the US military of depleted uranium munitions. The DVD showing raised funds for Amnesty
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Sue Bolton, Melbourne When Craig Johnson, the former Victorian branch secretary of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU), walked into the Melbourne County Court on May 10, he was expecting to face trial on four charges relating to an
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MELBOURNE — Maintenance workers at Toyota went on strike for three days after an Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) delegate was stood down by management on August 29. When Toyota relocated its Port Melbourne production facility to
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Chris Slee, Melbourne Forty people attended a public forum on August 10 on casualisation organised by Unite, an organisation campaigning for the rights of casual workers. Unite has organised campaigns exposing illegal and oppressive practices by
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Sarah Stephen, Sydney "Each of us has to choose between being either a champion of human dignity or a collaborator with an increasingly inhuman system", Sister Susan Connelly from the Mary MacKillop Institute of East Timorese Studies told a crowd