WOLLONGONG — Threatened industrial action by Public Sector Union members here in support of an unfairly dismissed fellow worker has forced DSS back to a Human Rights Commission hearing it had walked out of.
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BRISBANE — Anger has exploded against the major banks in the past two weeks here as the Australian Bankers Association director Allan Cullen called for farmers to leave the land now or face eviction later on. The
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Bases protests will continue Bill Doyle, a Peace Action Committee (PeACe) member and organiser of the Nurrungar protest, spoke to Green Left Weekly's Liam Mitchell about the recent demonstration at Nurrungar and the future plans of the
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Rough time for juvenile 'justice'ADELAIDE— The chairperson of the parliamentary Juvenile Justice Select Committee, Terry Groom, has been sharply criticised for proposed changes to state laws on juvenile crime. Groom
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The Nurrungar '93 action involved around 700 demonstrators making the long journey into the desert 400 km north-west of Adelaide over the Easter weekend. They included speakers from the Kokotha people (traditional custodians
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In response to the rapidly worsening crisis in Cambodia, an appeal has been initiated urging the Australian government to take action to help avert the pending disaster. Signers of the appeal include a range of individuals and organisations
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Spindler calls for defence inquiry By Joseph O'Reilly After being arrested for trespass at the Nurrungar Easter protest, Senator Sid Spindler, the Democrats' defence spokesperson, announced he was introducing a private member's bill to
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ADELAIDE — Ironically, the auditor general's report on the downfall of the State Bank was released on April Fool's Day. It offered little to the people of South Australia, who have been waiting for over two years for some
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SYDNEY — More than 100 young people have already registered for the Environmental Youth Alliance national conference, and new registrations are coming in every day. This conference will be held on Friday and Saturday,
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Adelaide EYA meetsADELAIDE — Forty young people attended the Environmental Youth Alliance state meeting on Saturday, March 27. They discussed campaigns to take up in the next few months and the approaching EYA
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NEWCASTLE — Workers took strike action at nearly all of the Broken Hill Proprietary Company's steel manufacturing or processing centres last week. The unions' log of claims was endorsed by the membership in December. The
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MELBOURNE — About 150 people attended a memorial on March 26 at the Melbourne Town Hall for women who have died in custody or shortly after being released from custody. Women in Fairlea and Barwon prisons also held their