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  • Dayson workers picket

    SYDNEY — The strike at Dayson air conditioning remanufacturing plant in Sydney is now in its 10th week. Seven workers, including two union delegates, were sacked after demanding union representation in negotiations with management. For

  • Staff oppose RMIT detention centre bid

    MELBOURNE — A forum convened on July 25 by the RMIT branch of the National Tertiary Education Industry Union (NTEU) expressed vehement opposition to the university's proposal to tender for the delivery of "educational and

  • Socialist Alliance seeks Victorian registration

    Following successful campaigns to gain electoral registration at the federal level, and in NSW and Tasmania, the Socialist Alliance is now campaigning for electoral registration in Victoria. “To register in

  • Baktiyari boys: 'What is our crime?'

    Twelve-year-old Montazar Baktiyari and 14-year-old Alamdar Baktiyari have put faces to the horrifying reality of children in detention. After asylum seekers have been dehumanised as "illegals" and "queue-jumpers" for so long, the

  • News Briefs

    GLW celebrates BRISBANE — More than 100 people attended the Green Left Weekly 500th issue celebration dinner at the Ukranian Hall on July 20, which raised $1500 to help GLW keep producing. Congratulations to GLW were given by: Sam Watson,

  • Refugee supporters get together

    CANBERRA — One-hundred-and-twenty refugees' rights activists and supporters gathered on July 23 for a public forum organised by Amnesty International, which indicated the breadth of the refugees' rights movement. The meeting

  • Support for Baktiyari family

    Protests held in solidarity with the Alamdar and Montazar Baktiyari, the Afghan boys who applied to Britain for asylum from Australia, were attended by 150 people in Sydney on July 21, 70 people in Melbourne on July 19 and another 50 people

  • Nurses head to arbitration

    BRISBANE — Queensland nurses were threatened with disciplinary action only hours after industrial bans were lifted, according to the Queensland Nurses Union (QNU). The bans were lifted following a July 24 arbitration commission

  • Safe for refugees but not tourists

    The following advice for Australians travelling to Afghanistan was issued by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade on July 4. Safety and Security — Australians should defer all travel to Afghanistan until further notice. Australians in

  • Tax office jobs under threat

    Public sector management is threatening the job security and flextime rights of workers in the Australian Taxation Office. Negotiations are underway for a new industrial agreement for the ATO. The Community and Public Sector Union

  • Refugee Assistance Centre opens

    MELBOURNE — In a sign of growing support for refugees' rights, the Dundas Street Centre in Thornbury — an offshoot of the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre in Footscray — has begun operation. The centres are not funded government

  • Building workers rally against royal commission

    PERTH — Despite driving rain, 1200 construction workers protested on July 24 against the return to Western Australia of the royal commission into the construction industry. Communication, Electrical and Plumbing Union organiser