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  • = NSW postal workers strike to defend jobs

    NSW postal workers strike to defend jobs Jenny Long, Sydney On February 12, Australia Post parcel workers struck for 24 hours over proposed network and technology changes that will undermine jobs, wages and conditions. The Communications,

  • A matter of basic justice

    Alex Bainbridge, Sydney "We are not facing an enemy to the Muslim people, nor an enemy to the Middle East ... It's an enemy to humanity in general", Islamic Friendship Association president Keysar Trad told a July 26 public forum on Israel's wars on

  • Legal groups oppose PKK ban

    Dale Mills A coalition of community and legal organisations has slammed the Australian government's decision on February 15 to declare the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) a terrorist organisation in Australia. The listing of the PKK as a terrorist

  • Stop the corporate takeover of Thirroul

    Chris Williams, Wollongong Residents of Thirroul, a suburb north of Wollongong, are outraged at plans to redevelop the Beaches Hotel site in the main street. Wests Illawarra Leagues Club has submitted a development application to Wollongong City

  • Blowin' in the Wind screening

    DARWIN — On November 19, 70 people attended the first screening of David Bradbury's latest documentary film, Blowin' in the Wind. The documentary focuses on the use of depleted uranium in "conventional" munitions and the impact of DU munitions

  • Conservatorium students protest against arrests

    Alex Bainbridge, Sydney More than 200 students gathered on March 23 to support an orchestra strike at Sydney University's Conservatorium of Music ("the Con"). The protest was called over the administration's handling of the visit by US Secretary of

  • West Papua poll was sham, says Dutch study

    Doug Lorimer The Australia West Papua Association (AWPA) has called on the Australian government to follow the Dutch government's example and commission a study into Australia's involvement in the 1969 UN-organised "act of free choice" in West

  • NSW childcare workers win pay equity wage rise

    Farida Iqbal, Sydney On March 7, the NSW Industrial Relations Commission (IRC) granted the state's childcare workers a 16% pay rise over two years. Childcare workers will be paid between $70 and $166 more a week, following the IRC's ruling in

  • Loose Cannons

    It wasn't her fault "I can honestly say that without Mrs Parks, I probably would not be standing here today as secretary of state." — NeoCondoleezza Rice at a memorial service for black civil rights activist Rosa Parks, who died on October 25.

  • First Reclaim the Night march held in Maitland

    Kerry Vernon, Maitland Two-hundred women, their relatives and supporters marched along Maitland's main street on the night of October 28 in the first Reclaim the Night event to be held in this city of 54,000 residents. Led by 83-year-old feminist

  • Activist jailed for drug protest

    Kathy Newnam, Darwin On October 19, social justice campaigner Stuart Highway was sentenced to eight months' jail, suspended after three months, for his involvement in a smoke-in on October 2002. The smoke-in, organised by the drug-law reform

  • Labor bans brothels

    Alex Bainbridge, Hobart After years of advocating for a bill to legalise brothels, the state government announced on October 5 that it would amend draft legislation to instead ban brothels outright. The new legislation was passed by Tasmania's