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  • 'No justice on the seventh floor!'

    SYDNEY — On August 28, 5000 workers, chanting "Stop the bias, stop the lies, hands off the union!", marched down George Street before rallying outside the Family Court in Goulburn Street. High above the spirited rally, on the

  • Loose cannons

    Via cruise missile "We don't seek revenge. We seek justice out of love." — George "The Crusader" Bush, August 28. As long as they don't live in Iraq "My call to people in this country is that if you want to join on the war on terror, if you

  • Tampa Day at Fort Street high

    SYDNEY — On August 26, more than 130 students and teachers wore black armbands to mark Tampa Day at Fort Street High School. Fortians for Refugees hoped to promote increased awareness of the inhumane nature of mandatory detention

  • Close Pine Gap!

    From October 4 to 11, anti-nuclear campaigners around the world will be marking Keep Space for Peace Week. The week, an initiative of the Global Network against Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, is an effort to stop the

  • Rally calls for inquiry into Sandon Point sale

    WOLLONGONG — On August 22 it was announced that Sandon Point was named in the Australian Council of National Trusts' Endangered Places List 2002. ACNT chairperson Simon Molesworth said “the key threats to these 23 places

  • Human rights all at sea

    SYDNEY — On August 24-25, just before the anniversary of the Tampa incident on August 26, a conference was held in Sydney titled, "The Tampa: one year on". Pax Christi Australia (NSW) and the Buddhist Peace Fellowship organised an

  • John Howard shamed

    In the early hours of August 26, activists from the We Are All Boat People group decorated statues around the city in barbed wire, Tampa sashes and black armbands. Her Majesty Queen Victoria at the Queen Victoria Building

  • Protest flotilla targets threat to Morton Bay

    BRISBANE — Five-hundred people took the water on August 14 to protest the Queensland Labor government's plan to allow the Sun Aqua company to build a multi-million dollar sea cages and fish farms in a pristine part of Morton

  • 3000 demand freedom for refugees

    MELBOURNE — Three thousand people turned out on August 30 for a rally outside the State Library organised by the Melbourne Refugee Action Collective (RAC) to demand freedom for refugees. The very youthful crowd marched

  • Tampa Day across Australia

    Forestry, Mining and Energy Union, Wollongong, WILL WILLIAMS, Brisbane"> Tampa Day across Australia Tampa Day across Australia Brisbane BILL MASON reports that around 150 people rallied and marched in inner

  • Johnston addresses packed meeting

    BRISBANE — To a packed Kurilpa Hall of 90 people, Craig Johnston, Victorian state secretary of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU), gave a gripping account of union struggle Workers First-style. Organised by the

  • AMWU national council attacks militants

    MELBOURNE &#151 As the picket line set up by Victorian Australian Manufacturing Workers Union officials and their supporters reached its 12th day on August 26, an emergency AMWU national council was meeting. The workers, striking