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  • Students, staff protest academic's sacking

    BY SAM KING& ROBYN MARSHALL BRISBANE &#151 Three hundred trade unionists and students attended a loud and determined protest march for union rights and intellectual freedom on October 30 at the University of Queensland (UQ) campus at St Lucia.

  • Qantas censors forest billboard

    HOBART — Environmentalists paid $20,000 for an airport advertising campaign that was terminated in less than 24 hours amid allegations of political censorship. On November 1, the Wilderness Society, supported by

  • 2000 march against war on Iraq

    BRISBANE — Two-thousand people gathered in the Roma Street Forum on November 3 for a lively rally opposing any war on Iraq. Demonstrators came from far and wide, from Ipswich to the Gold and Sunshine coasts. The protest

  • Loose Cannons

    Nobody's safe from ASIO "No country is absolutely safe for anybody but I just want to say to Australians of the Muslim faith, you are as protected and important part of our country as anyone else." — Prime Menzies John Howard, November 7. Only

  • Leichhardt says no to war

    Seventy protesters marched down the streets of Leichhardt in opposition to war and racism on November 8. The protest was organised by the Port Jackson branch of the Socialist Alliance. Photo by Liam Mitchell. From Green Left Weekly,

  • Rally against ASIO raids

    PERTH — Around 250 people attended a rally outside Perth's Parliament House on November 9 to protest against the Coalition government's recent attacks on Islamic Australians. Called by the Islamic Council of WA, the demonstration

  • Anti-WTO protesters to defy street march ban

    SYDNEY — Activists planning demonstrations during the World Trade Organisation (WTO) mini-ministerial meeting in Sydney, November 14-15, have condemned the NSW Labor government's plans to prohibit street marches during the

  • Action Updates

    Anti-war recruitment centre MELBOURNE &#151 Twenty-six activists occupied an army recruitment centre on November 6 and transformed it into an anti-war recruitment centre. Posters were stuck on the windows, while activists campaigned outside.

  • ACT says 'no to war!'

    CANBERRA — The growth of anti-war sentiment in the Australian Capital Territory was clear at the November 3 rally in Garema Place to oppose a US invasion of Iraq. Seven hundred people attended the protest rally, which was

  • Farewell to a socialist feminist rebel

    Delia Maxwell, socialist feminist fighter and a member of Radical Women and the Socialist Alliance, lost her battle against cancer on November 2. Born in 1932, Delia's life spanned much of the turbulent 20th century.

  • Lismore organises against war

    Activists met at the Lismore Workers Club on October 31 to organise opposition to war on Iraq. Called No War on Iraq, the group is planning a march and rally at Lismore's Spinks Park at 10am on November 30. Pictured are the activists

  • 'Axis of greed' condemned at forestry protest

    LAUNCESTON &#151 One hundred people attended a demonstration against the Gunns woodchip company's forestry practices at its annual general meeting on October 31. One banner read "People don't kill forests &#151 Gunns kill