MELBOURNE — Four of the seven Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) members charged over alleged vandalism during a "run-through" at office of Skilled Engineering in Box Hill on June 15, 2001, have been committed to stand
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CANBERRA — The immigration department announced on June 20 that a further 372 asylum seekers on Nauru had received decisions on their applications for refugee status. Only 15 were recognised as refugees. To date, 1141 asylum seekers have had
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SYDNEY — Twelve workers from the Dayson compressor manufacturing plant at Rydalmere have been on strike for more than four weeks. The strike began when seven workers, including two union delegates, were sacked without notice on
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BRISBANE — Four people were arrested on June 18 as police and security guards moved in to allow the commencement of surveying and earthmoving works at the site of the proposed nuclear food irradiation facility at Narangba industrial
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HOBART — Glenn Shields, a campaigner against the Southwood woodchip mill, has been pre-selected as one of the two Socialist Alliance candidates for the seat of Franklin in the upcoming Tasmanian election. Previously an ALP
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HOBART — The Socialist Alliance has announced what it describes as "the most ambitions socialist campaign ever for a Tasmanian state election". The Tasmanian Labor government has called an early election for July 20. "We will
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Axis of misogyny "We have realised that without countries like Sudan, abortion would have been recognised as a universal human right in a UN document" — Austin Ruse, president of the US Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute, quoted in the
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BY SEAN MARTIN-IVERSON PERTH — The Western Australian Labor government has passed legislation that will allow WA police to conduct compulsory DNA tests. By November 1, WA police will routinely obtain DNA samples from a wide range of suspects,
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SYDNEY — Speaking to an overflow audience of 250 people at the Newtown Neighbourhood Centre on June 2, writer, film-maker and left activist Tariq Ali analysed the key issues in world politics after September 11. The meeting,
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MELBOURNE — On June 1, 100 Footscray residents protested outside the Footscray swimming pool against its closure. The rally was organised by the Footscray Community Association. The Maribyrnong City Council has recently decided
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HOBART — Public sector nurses are maintaining a work-to-rule campaign to win safer staffing levels in hospitals. Nurses are refusing to do unreasonable overtime and are making sure that meal breaks are claimed. They are also
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PERTH — On June 1, Iranian asylum seeker Nader Sayadi Estahbanati was deported from Esperance in WA on the Iranian freighter Mazardaran. In 2000, Estahbanati and two friends stowed away on the Mazardaran to flee persecution in