SYDNEY — A mass meeting of cleaners from the NSW Cleaning Service (a state government department), on a 24-hour strike, filled the Sydney Town Hall to capacity on July 16. Numerous simultaneous meetings in country centres
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Rally for peace in Bosnia Story and photo by Jon Lamb SYDNEY — More than 800 people rallied and marched here on July 17 to protest against the continuing acts of violence and aggression towards women and children in
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Community protests killing of SomalisMELBOURNE — "We are demonstrating to show Australian people and the international community how angry and upset we are with the continual killings of Somalians by the UN troops in
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Darwin — At sunrise on July 5, a symbolic fire was lit and the ashes of the first World Indigenous Youth Conference were thrown into it. Traditional dances were performed in the light of the flames. More than 2000
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Workcover protests beginMELBOURNE — About 1000 building workers braved Melbourne's wintry conditions on July 7 to protest against the Kennett government's Workcover Act. The law, which came into effect in December,
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SYDNEY — About 25 Australian Kurds barricaded themselves inside the United Nations building in Sydney on June 28, demanding that the Australian government pressure the Turkish regime on its brutal oppression of its
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MELBOURNE — The 22nd national conference of Resistance was held here over the weekend of July 3-5. The overall tone of the conference was clear: young people will think for themselves, speak for themselves, act on their own
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A cacophony of outrageous racist statements by the likes of Northern Territory Chief Minister Marshall Perron (Aborigines are "backward", sleep with dogs and share their germs, he says) and Western Mining director Hugh Morgan
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Demonstration at opening of consulateDARWIN — Members of Darwin's East Timor Independence Support Group organised a peaceful but angry picket on June 25 to protest at the opening of an Indonesian consulate in the city.
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BRISBANE — More than 500 women from around the country met here July 13-15 for the seventh annual Network of Women Students of Australia (NOWSA) conference. This is the largest NOWSA ever, and twice the size of the last
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Speaking tour by Palestinian womanSYDNEY — Dr Ilham Abu-Ghazaleh, assistant professor at Birzeit University on the West Bank, will be speaking at meetings here between July 14 and 16. Dr Abu-Ghazaleh who has been
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Indonesian workers group condemns ACTU The Jakarta-based worker support organisation Yayasan Maju Bersama (YMB — Advance Together Foundation) has called for Australian unions to boycott plans by the ACTU and the Australian government to