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  • Construction workers fly their colours

    GEELONG — Answering a call from the Victorian branch of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union for shop stewards to fly banners of peace on construction sites, members have found that even a peace symbol needs to

  • Rumbiak denounces West Papua provincial carve up

    SYDNEY — The Indonesian government's decision to divide West Papua into three provinces is a further attack by Jakarta on the Papuan people's right to self-determination, West Papua Institute for Human Rights supervisor John Rumbiak

  • March 5 strike builds in Adelaide

    ADELAIDE — “Young people need to be leading the anti-war movement. Tens of thousands of Australian students were involved in stopping the war in Vietnam, and we can stop the war in Iraq”, said University of Adelaide student

  • Forum discusses how Iraq war can be stopped

    SYDNEY — On February 19, 100 people met in Leichhardt Town Hall to discuss the topic "How we can stop the war on Iraq". Organised by Green Left Weekly, the meeting was addressed by by anti-war Labor MP Harry Quick, who told

  • Howard refugee policy 'brutalising'

    MELBOURNE — On February 16, 800 people packed into St Michaels Uniting Church for a forum organised by Women for a Humane Refugee Policy. Federal Labor MP Carmen Lawrence told the forum that the Howard government's treatment of

  • Labor overrides tribunal to build dam

    HOBART — The state Labor government of Premier Jim Bacon decided on February 3 to introduce new laws to allow the $30 million Meander Dam project to go ahead. Previously, the Resource Management and Planning Appeals Tribunal

  • Anti-war organising in Mackay

    MACKAY, north Queensland — A week after moving to Mackay from Rockhampton, where I had been involved in anti-war organising, I received a phone call asking if any Mackay actions were planned. A quick phone call to the local

  • Unions Tasmania opposes unilateral US war

    HOBART — The Unions Tasmania Council, the peak union body in the state, issued a statement from its meeting on February 13 opposing a unilateral US war on Iraq. However, the statement supports UN calls on Iraq to "surrender

  • Anti-war activist notebook 3

    Wollongong’s peace train and IWD plansWOLLONGONG — After the 5000-strong February 8 anti-war rally here, a large crowd was expected to travel from Wollongong to Sydney on February 16. Although originally NOWAR had

  • Armed police terrorise Melbourne building workers

    MELBOURNE — Armed federal police and immigration officers carried out a Rambo-style raid on an inner-city building site on February 20. The police and immigration officers stormed the Bayview building site in Port Melbourne at

  • Call for anti-war convergence at federal parliament

    CANBERRA — The ACT Network Opposing War on February 18 issued its own call for all anti-war and peace groups, community organisations, trade unions, student and youth groups and political organisations opposed to a war on

  • Loose cannons

    Liberation I "You'll be fighting not to conquer anybody but to liberate people." — George "The Crusader" Bush addressing US troops, January 3. Liberation II "Under the [Bush administration's] plan a US military governor would rule post-war