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  • Picnic for peace

    GEELONG — One hundred people attended a January 18 "picnic for peace" on the Geelong waterfront, initiated by the Geelong Greens. Federal ALP member for Geelong, Gavin O'Connor spoke out against a war on Iraq outlining the

  • Apollo Bay rallies against Iraq war

    APOLLO BAY — "With around 400 women, men and children marching along the Great Ocean Road in solidarity chanting 'No blood for oil' and 'Australia does not want this war', this rally is not only the first rural town to have a no

  • Doctors protest war on Iraq

    A delegation of doctors representing the Australian Medical Association for Prevention of War (MAPW) delivered a “Prescription for Peace” to Prime Minister John Howard at his Kirribilli home on January 12. The prescription,

  • Wollongong No War rally

    WOLLONGONG — In the lead up to the February 16 "Walk Against the War" in Sydney, the Illawarra NoWar collective is organising a February 8 protest against war on Iraq. Advertised with the slogan "No blood for oil", the rally

  • Corporate media denounces DEST agreement

    CANBERRA — The corporate media on January 14 and 15 denounced new “flexible” leave conditions contained in the latest industrial agreement for employees of the federal Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST).

  • Seaswap campaigners step up action

    PERTH — With the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln still undergoing maintenance off Fremantle, US warplanes starting bushfires during bombing "practice" 100 kilometres north of Perth and a US FA-18 fighter crashing near the

  • Refugee family wins partial victory

    LAUNCESTON — The refugees' rights movement has witnessed a painful partial victory. On January 14, Fatima Sarwari and her children — seven-year-old Asima, five-year-old Zahoor and the Australian-born twins, almost two years'

  • Leichhardt activists organise against war

    Leichhardt activists organise against warSYDNEY - The recently formed Leichhardt Stop the War Group is demonstrating the breadth of local opposition to the waging of war on the people of Iraq. Its members include the mayor of

  • NSW Socialist Alliance plans campaign, elects candidates

    national secretary John Percy; Sydney University student activist Ashisha Cunningham; former BHP steelworker now teacher Geoff Payne; Sudanese political refugee and refugee-rights activist Osama Yousif; feminist activist and trainee teacher at

  • Protesters support refugees

    BY PETER ROBSON & LISA LINES Refugees' rights protests organised at short notice in Adelaide and Newcastle helped to expose the media's lies about asylum seekers in the second week of January. In Adelaide, 60 people attended a January 8 protest

  • Bitter dispute in employment department

    CANBERRA — Certified agreement negotiations in the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations (DEWR), finalised with an all-staff vote on 18 December, were bitter and protracted. Department secretary Dr Peter Boxall, a

  • Asylum seekers face collective punishment

    Since the December-January fires in five refugee prisons, there has been much corporate media attention on those charged, or accused (and locked up without charge) of starting them. But we have seen few reports of the brutal