Linda Seaborn, Hobart Major Michael Mori, the US military lawyer for Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks, addressed an 800-strong public meeting on August 18. The meeting was organised by Amnesty International. Hicks, 31, from Adelaide, has spent
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Lauren Caulfield, Melbourne On June 4, people from around Victoria will rally here to protect the state's forests. The World Environment Day event will start at 11am at the State Library in Swanston Street and march to Federation Square. It will
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CANBERRA — Activists from the Canberra Region Anti-Nuclear Campaign made a submission to the Howard government's Uranium Mining Processing and Nuclear Energy Review, which closed on August 18. The CRANC submission criticised the narrow terms of
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MELBOURNE — The employer of two workers who were sacked and then reinstated after a community picket at their workplace subsequently encouraged Channel Nine's A Current Affair show to film the two workers at the factory against their wishes,
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Andrew Watson, Lismore The Northern Rivers Union Network (NRUN) was formally launched at the "End the lies" rally in Lismore on October 2. Richard White, a member of the Community and Public Sector Union, spoke on behalf of NRUN about the
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SYDNEY — Speaking at a public meeting on August 25, Rob Stary (pictured), the defence lawyer for Jack Thomas (who was convicted on terrorism charges, but released on appeal on August 13), argued that the federal government has still not provided
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The formidable figures of US President George Bush and his puppet-in-tow, PM John Howard, have appeared regularly after school on the busy Hume Highway near Yagoona Public School, imploring passers-by not to vote for the Howard government.From
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Justine Kamprad, Geelong On August 28, the 13 workers employed by Williamstown Sheet Metal Pty Ltd, in the south-west Melbourne suburb of Laverton North, took their first ever industrial action. The workers voted unanimously to refuse the company's
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News briefs #2 Defence of gay and lesbian rights SYDNEY - More than 800 people gathered in Town Hall square on June 26, in a massive show of opposition to the Coalition government's moves to amend the marriage rights bill in order to ban marriage
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Alex Bainbridge, Hobart On September 18, 50 people rallied on the Parliament Lawns to launch the Socialist Alliance's election campaigns for the federal seats of Denison and Franklin. Denison candidate Kamala Emanuel said that "socialism
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Paul Benedek, Brisbane "Whenever I want to ride a bus to university, I pray that the bus driver won't be racist, pray that he will look beyond my scarf and treat me like everyone else", Salam El-Merebi, an activist with Al-Nisa, a Muslim women's
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SYDNEY — "The greatest obstacle to peace in the Middle East is US policy." That's how Dr Bouthaina Shaaban, Syria's minister for expatriates, framed her lecture to 150 people at the University of Western Sydney's Bankstown campus on September 7.