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  • Governments prepare to bury mental health report

    Coolibah is a day centre, run by the Brotherhood of St Laurence, for isolated older people in Melbourne's inner city. But according to the Barry Pearce, the centre's coordinator, these days Coolibah is constantly having to turn

  • Reclaim the Night even bigger this year

    Reclaim the Night marches, against protesting violence against women, gathered more support than ever around the country this year. Green Left Weekly spoke to women who attended marches in just some of the many centres in

  • Teachers to stand

    ADELAIDE — The October 30 State Council meeting of the South Australian Institute of Teachers endorsed SAIT president Clare McCarty to stand as an Education Independent for the Legislative Council in the state elections.

  • Lion Nathan uses every trick in the book

    SYDNEY — New Zealand brewing giant Lion Nathan bugged, spied upon, videoed and photographed union meetings of workers during a recent dispute at its Tooheys plant here recently. Criminal lawyer and Sun-Herald columnist

  • Challenge to Victorian PSU leaders

    MELBOURNE — Tony Longland is contesting Branch Executive and National Council positions in Public Sector Union elections in Victoria in November. Longland, employed by the Department of Veterans' Affairs, has opposed the

  • Police hammer drug information program

    SYDNEY — Representatives of more than 20 community and youth organisations have voted to cut off all joint activity with the police throughout the Fairfield-Cabramatta area following incidents of abuse of police power. These

  • Lesbians celebrate in Brisbane

    Lesbians celebrate in BrisbaneBRISBANE — Lesbians, gay men and supportive heterosexuals celebrated International Lesbian Day, October 10, with a public mock wedding in Post Office Square. Deni and Solange,

  • Thinking of moving to one?

    "One would think in a free and reasonable society that these things don't happen." — WA Liberal MLA Wayde Smith, after discovering that police had planted a bug in his home in 1991. Understanding "He is a great man — a martyr, not a crook.

  • PSU confronts government on pay, staffing

    On October 18 mass meetings of Public Sector Union members around Australia voted to strike for 24 hours on October 25 and begin a campaign of rolling stoppages from October 26. The action came in the wake of government

  • Students rally in Adelaide

    Students rally in AdelaideADELAIDE — More than 400 students gathered outside of Parliament House here on October 13 to protest against the latest round of HECS increases. The rally was organised by the right-wing

  • Kangaroo Island gains wilderness parks

    ADELAIDE — Five areas of Kangaroo Island's valuable natural wilderness are the first section of South Australia to be fully protected by a state government act. Under the Wilderness Protection Act of 1992, the areas, totalling

  • 'Human rights central to peace'

    SYDNEY — Human rights are at the core of a real settlement to the conflicts in the Middle East, said Dr Gabi Baramki, the president of Bir Zeit University, at a public meeting on October 13. Bir Zeit University is a