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  • Sean Kenan acquitted

    Sean Kenan acquitted Aidex protester Sean Kenan was acquitted of charges of assaulting police by the ACT Supreme Court on March 19, following failure by the prosecution to prove at least one key element of the alleged offence. Kenan was

  • Qld police slammed on Operation Trident

    Qld police slammed on Operation TridentBRISBANE — The controversial Operation Trident car-stealing scam was poorly conceived, incompetently executed and tainted from beginning to end, according to the Carter report

  • Council attacks free speech rally

    Council attacks free speech rallyBRISBANE — Brisbane City Council officers, with help from the Queensland Police, confiscated an information stall from free speech protesters in the Queen Street Mall on March 19.

  • Essential services act planned for WA

    PERTH — West Australian Liberal Premier Richard Court has signalled a Jeff Kennett style of approach to industrial relations, aiming to introduce new anti-union legislation when parliament sits in May. The proposed

  • EYA pedals against pollution

    EYA pedals against pollutionBRISBANE — The next generation of young people faces tremendous problems of pollution and environmental destruction because of the neglect of the past, Phoebe Clark, a 13-year-old high school

  • Handbook for activists

    Handbook for activistsSYDNEY — The Activists Defence Network (ADN) will soon be launching the Activists Defence Handbook. A spokesperson for the ADN says that the handbook will be available by late March or early

  • Union deal saves train lines but may cost jobs

    Union deal saves train lines but may cost jobsMELBOURNE — A deal struck between transport minister Alan Brown and rail unions has saved a number of rail services throughout Victoria, but about 5500 jobs will be shed in

  • Rally against police violence

    Rally against police violenceMELBOURNE — Wearing a variety of masks, a small group of people demonstrated outside the South Melbourne police station on March 11 to protest against bashings by police of people taken into

  • Call to repeal 45D and E

    Call to repeal 45D and EHOBART — Noel Rafferty, state secretary of the Waterside Workers Federation, has called on the Keating government to repeal sections 45D and E of the Trade Practices Act. A resolution

  • Tasmanian teachers' bank accounts raided

    Tasmanian teachers' bank accounts raidedHOBART — Outrage has erupted among Tasmanian teachers over revelations by a Tasmanian building society senior executive that money has been deducted from teachers' personal

  • Loose cannons

    Blame God "This election means in a way that the whole Protestant ethic of hard work bringing its own reward is in doubt." — A "prominent Liberal" quoted in the March 23 Bulletin. Pass a law against it "Unfortunately, there's too much

  • Youth speak up in Wollongong

    WOLLONGONG — Wollongong Resistance had no hesitation in recommending that young people vote for Greens or the Democratic Socialists in last weekend's federal election. This recommendation was announced at a