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  • More anti-war protests

    On top of the hundreds of thousands mobilising in Australia's main cities, many thousands rallied in cities and towns across Australia. From Cairns, Susan Austin reports that 2000 people gathered for a peace picnic. A 500-strong contingent

  • Wollongong International Women's Day: No War on Iraq

    WOLLONGONG — An anti-war protest on International Women's Day, March 8, could attract numbers similar to or bigger than the 5000-strong February 8 anti-war demonstration. International Women's Day Collective member and

  • Lawrence: war with UN 'still immoral'

    CANBERRA — "In my opinion, it doesn't matter if the UN is arm-twisted into a war with Iraq, it's still immoral" — these blunt words set the tone for federal Labor MP Carmen Lawrence's talk to a meeting organised by the Canberra

  • Canberrans mass against war

    CANBERRA — Canberrans turned out in their thousands on February 15 to show their opposition to US President George Bush's war. Organisers estimate the crowd at more than 15,000 — a size not seen at a protest in Canberra

  • Wollongong high schools greeted by 'No War Mobile'

    WOLLONGONG — Six of the Illawarra's 19 high schools have been introduced to the No War Mobile as student anti-war activists continue to build the March 5 Books Not Bombs student strike. The increasingly famous box-trailer, 2.5

  • East Timorese asylum seekers: Let them stay!

    MELBOURNE — At a civic ceremony held February 12 in support of East Timorese asylum seekers was attended by 200 people including local government councillors and state parliamentarians, the message was loud and clear: "Let them

  • Thousands march in Brisbane

    BRISBANE — Around 100,000 protesters turned up to oppose war on Iraq on February 15, making it probably the biggest protest in the city's history. "How is the US so sure Iraq has had weapons of mass destruction?", rally chair

  • Public service 'reform' to cost thousands of jobs

    BRISBANE — In 2002, the Queensland treasury announced plans to strip state government departments of corporate support staff and place them in five departments. These departments would then sell corporate support services back

  • 20,000 rally in Perth

    PERTH — More than 20,000 people crammed in Forest Place in the CBD on February 15 for an anti-war rally organised by the NOWaR Alliance. Contingents from Fremantle and Midland arrived on "peace trains". From Fremantle, three

  • Court victory over Narangba eviction case

    BRISBANE — Protesters against the food irradiation plant being built at Narangba, 50km north of the city, have won a major victory with the dismissal of a state government move in the Supreme Court to have their protest camp

  • Tasmanian rallies draw huge crowds

    BY IAN STOLP & JULES GREEN HOBART — Between 12,000 and 15,000 people marched on February 15, in one of the biggest demonstrations ever held here. It took more than 40 minutes for the marchers to travel the 500-metre route. Protesters,

  • Iraqi refugee opposes war

    MELBOURNE — Thirty people attended a February 10 public forum in Footscray on the US drive to war against Iraq. The keynote speaker was Iraqi refugee Surma Hamid. Speaking on behalf of the Committee for the Defence of Iraqi