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  • ETU members 'bust through the pack'

    MELBOURNE — More than 3000 Electrical Trades Union (ETU) members met at Dallas Brookes Hall on January 22 to endorse a new enterprise bargaining agreement (EBA). The EBA, negotiated between the ETU and the main employer

  • Troop departure sparks protests

    SYDNEY — Two hundred anti-war protesters gathered at Cawper Wharf, Woolloomooloo, on January 23, in a stormy protest against Australian involvement in a war on Iraq. The protesters were responding to a call put out by anti-war

  • Women against war and racism

    SYDNEY — The Sydney International Women's Day Collective, which has been meeting since November last year, has voted overwhelmingly to organise an IWD march and rally on March 8 around the theme of "Peace, Justice, Diversity,

  • Women highlight pro-war bias in mainstream media

    MELBOURNE — At lunchtime on January 20, 200 women sat on the steps of Victorian Parliament House wearing bras on the outside of their t-shirts in protest against war on Iraq. The action was organised by the prominent actor

  • Narangba protest camp fights eviction threat

    BRISBANE — The Queensland Labor government's department of state development has given formal notice to protesters camped outside the site of the Narangba nuclear irradiation plant, now under construction, that they will be

  • Discussion list for Green Left Weekly readers

    A new email discussion list has been started to provide a forum for readers of Green Left Weekly to exchange ideas and discuss news items, issues and reviews covered in GLW. While it will not replace the role of the letters in the Write On section

    A new email discussion list has been started to provide a forum for readers of Green Left Weekly to exchange ideas and discuss news items, issues and reviews covered in GLW.

  • CFMEU, teachers oppose war on Iraq

    MELBOURNE — Victorian state secretary of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU), Martin Kingham, has urged all trade unions to participate in an afternoon rally on the day that the US launches its war

  • Wharf protest first of many

    HOBART — The state Labor government has ignored the January 1 deadline — imposed on it by the Tasmania Together consultation process — for ending clear-felling in some forests classified as "high conservation value". Many

  • Protest against warship

    NEWCASTLE — "Bring all the warships home!" was the rally cry on February 18 at the National Maritime Festival where the HMAS Newcastle was on show to the public. The Newcastle No War Collective organised a snap protest, because

  • Construction giant threatens lock-out

    MELBOURNE — Around 600 workers from Grocon's five construction sites and two construction yards staged a four-hour stop-work meeting on January 17 to determine what industrial action would be taken to pressure the company into

  • Loose Cannons

    Old McBush, IEAE Oh! "And then the North Koreans made a decision ... to ignore international ... agreements that they had reached, and start building potential nuclear weapons, enriching uranium. And now they are ... in the process of kicking out

  • Cygnet Folk Festival supports refugees

    CYGNET — The Cygnet Folk Festival — held in Tasmania on January 10-12 — has become “one of the most progressive festivals in Australia today” according to one of the festival organisers, Geoff Francis. Notable progressive