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Rallies commemorate Hiroshima DayNearly 50 years after the atomic bomb was dropped on the Hiroshima and Nagasaki, peace activists in Brisbane, Hobart and Sydney rallied to remember those who died and to demand an end to the

Call to 'ground Garuda'ADELAIDE — On August 6 the Campaign for an Independent East Timor (CIET) held a protest vigil outside Garuda airlines highlighting the gross human rights violations of the Indonesian

300 XXXX brewery workers face the sackBRISBANE — In a drastic rationalisation of its XXXX brewing operation, Castlemaine Perkins Ltd, owned by Lion Nathan, is pushing through a plan to retrench 300 workers. Despite

Labor promised a "business as usual" education policy at the last federal election, and if current proposed cutbacks are any indication, they intend to remain true to their record. Having already destroyed free education,

BRISBANE — Over ten thousand teachers rallied across Queensland on August 5 to protest the cutbacks to the education budget by the state government. The 4000-strong meeting at Brisbane's Festival Hall, plus some 50 other

Paying for enterprise bargainingMELBOURNE — A document circulated to DSS managers on July 19 advises them of the amount of salary dollars and ASL (Actual Staffing Level, i.e., jobs) they will be losing in order to pay

The first meeting between representatives of the Bougainville Interim Government and the BRA with the North Solomons Peace Negotiating and Monitoring Committee (NSPNMC) concluded in Honiara on July 30. The committee includes

MELBOURNE — Sixty people gathered outside the Australian Defence Industries (ADI) plant in Footscray on July 25 to draw attention to Australia's continued role in the Bougainville war. Organised by Australian

A report published by the Australian Manufacturing Council last month, The Environmental Challenge: Best Practice Environmental Regulation, demands relaxation of environmental regulations which are alleged to be

Workers seize equipment ADELAIDE — Workers from a bankrupt crane hire firm have hidden hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of equipment to guarantee that they will receive their redundancy payments. The workers seized two 50-tonne

Despite? "Despite presiding over a period of the most sweeping economic liberalisation since India achieved independence 46 years ago, [Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha] Rao has been battered by allegations of corruption ..." — Sydney Morning

600 meet on Victorian WorkcoverMELBOURNE — State award union delegates, occupational health and safety delegates and injured workers met on July 21 to condemn the Kennett government's Workcover scheme. The meeting,