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  • NSW election campaign launched

    SYDNEY — The mood among the 52 delegates, representing nine NSW Socialist Alliance branches, was confident while tinged with a sense of urgency, when they gathered for the alliance's state conference on August 3. The

  • UWA to become a refugee safe haven?

    PERTH — Refugees' rights activists at the University of Western Australia pledged to turn their campus into a refugee safe haven at the launch of the campaign on August 8. The campaign is being organised by the UWA Refugee

  • Protesters oppose Iraq sanctions, war

    SYDNEY — August 6 was the 12th anniversary of the imposition of sanctions on Iraq by the United States. To mark the day and demand that the sanctions be lifted unconditionally, a 24-hour picket was staged outside the US

  • Hundreds join Hiroshima Day rallies

    Around a thousand people participated in rallies across the country commemorating the 57th anniversary of the US nuclear attacks on the Japanese cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima at the end of World War II. In Sydney, some 500

  • Flags, solidarity and sleeping bags

    BY TAMARA PEARSON  BATHURST — Charles Sturt University's (CSU) solution to federal funding cuts is to axe courses and fire staff. The students' response has been to organise. The students have been camping outside CSU management's

  • Refugee display stirs controversy

    CANBERRA — A library display highlighting the plight of asylum seekers was removed on August 9 after it prompted a violent response. The Refugee Action Collective (RAC) was asked to pack up its display because library

  • 'Now come and hear it from an Afghan refugee'

    Afghan temporary protection visa holder and refugees' rights activist Riz Wakil is embarking on a whirlwind speaking tour on university campuses along the east coast. Wakil, who is an activist in Free the Refugees

  • Murris rally over stolen wages

    BRISBANE &#151 More than 200 people, including representatives of Indigenous groups from all over Queensland, protested in the Roma Street Forum on August 3 against the state Labor government's compensation offer on the "stolen wages"

  • Narangba opposed

    BRISBANE — In a mostly peaceful action on August 7, 200 people picketed the Narangba irradiation facility construction site. Protesters have maintained a protest camp against Steritech and its contracted company Statham

  • ACT Labor supports changes to refugee policies

    CANBERRA &#151 The ACT conference of the Australian Labor Party on July 26 voted to end the ALP's support for mandatory detention of asylum seekers. A number of motions initiated by the Labor for Refugees group were passed

  • Loose cannons

    Unless it's private health insurance funds "Well we're not in the business of bailing out commercial enterprises... I can assure you that that won't be happening." &#151 Prime Menzies John Howard, speaking to 3AW's Neil Mitchell on August 2, in

  • News Briefs

    1000 sign to oppose refugee policy HOBART &#151 More than 1000 people have signed a handmade, leather-bound book in one week to demonstrate their dissent from the federal government's refugee policies. The project was launched by Tasmanians for