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  • Students organise against Nelson review

    LISMORE — Chanting, "Education for people, not for profit", and "Whose streets? Our streets!", 300 university and high school students and university workers brushed aside police objections to spill onto the streets on September

  • Action updates

    Support for Palestine, opposition to war in Iraq CANBERRA — More than 160 people pledged their support for a free Palestine at a dinner on September 27. Obada Kayali spoke of the injustice committed against his people and Avigail Abarbanel, a

  • Resistance adopts 'call to action'

    MELBOURNE &#151"We want to draw the link between war and corporate globalisation, and win people to the perspective that a movement against neo-liberalism and imperialism in a time of war needs to become an anti-war movement", Kylie

  • Strike against workplace deaths

    PERTH — Two thousand building workers rallied on the steps of Parliament House on September 24 to protest another death in the construction industry. Five days earlier, Des Walsh, a 47-year-old rigger with three

  • Coalition and ALP ignore Lesley McCulloch

    A show trial is looming for Australian academic Lesley McCulloch, detained by the Indonesian military in Aceh, along with US nurse Joy-Lee Sadler. Both have been charged with alleged visa violations. On September 23,

  • Activists plan to shut down the WTO meeting

    BY MARINA CARMAN& DALE MILLS SYDNEY — A meeting initiated by the No WTO network was held on September 21 to discuss protest actions against a World Trade Organisation (WTO) meeting of trade ministers to be held on November 14-15. Around 100

  • Poor Indonesians scapegoated in people-smuggling trial

    A Perth District Court judge on September 27 sentenced two Indonesian fisherpeople to jail for their role in transporting 438 asylum seekers to Australia in August last year. The people responsible for organising the journey and

  • McCulloch: Please appeal for justice in Aceh

    [This letter was received from Lesley McCulloch via an email from the Acehnese human rights activists working for her release from Indonesian custody. It was written on September 27.] Those of you who know me personally can confirm I am

  • Construction unions hold alternative safety seminar

    MELBOURNE — The Royal Commission into the Building and Construction Industry hosted a conference on construction industry safety on September 19 and 20. The Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU), the

  • Tax office workers strike

    Australian Taxation Office (ATO) workers around Australia, members of the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU), went on strike for two hours on the morning of September 18. The strike followed the breakdown of

  • Refugee safe haven supported

    WOLLONGONG — At a student general meeting on September 17, Wollongong University students and staff voted overwhelmingly to declare their campus a refugee safe haven and to donate money to escaped refugees. Despite

  • Western suburbs refugee group launched

    MELBOURNE — Fifty people crammed into Hendersons Cafe to launch the West Welcomes Refugees postcard campaign on September 21. The postcards, designed by Viv Mehes and featuring students from Footscray City College, allow Western suburbs