SYDNEY — "If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again" — this could be the motto of the leaders of the Bus and Tram division of the NSW Rail Tram and Bus Union. On May 20 they finally got the majority of Sydney and
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CANBERRA — More refugee-rights activists are getting involved in the organising of a June 23 protest. In addition to the Refugee Action Committee (RAC), the ACT Council of Churches, Community Aid Abroad, Amnesty International,
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BY CLAYTON MCDONALD, TONY ILTIS & SEAN MARTIN-IVERSON MELBOURNE — "We have lost hope in the Australian government", said refugee Fahim Fayyazi, a member of Afghanistan's Hazara minority of the attitudes of his fellow asylum seekers. "Our only
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MELBOURNE — After 27 years of working for their country's freedom, the East Timorese community in Melbourne and their Australian supporters celebrated their newly-won independence on May 20.
Collingwood Town Hall was packed with some 2000 people, who watched a replay of the independence celebrations in Dili on a giant video screen and listened to musical performances, speeches and an official ceremony.
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The seafarers' sit-in aboard the CSL Yarra has ended in an Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) brokered deal that was signed by Canada Steamship Lines (CSL) on May 16. The deal allows the CSL Yarra to resume cement
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MELBOURNE — Six hundred outraged students attended a student general meeting at Melbourne University on May 15, protesting against the recent attacks on campus political activism by the Melbourne University Students' Union
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WOLLONGONG — "Refugees are willing to contribute to society but the government won't let them", Afghan refugee Riz Wakil told a public meeting, organised by the Illawarra Refugee Action Collective, at the Thirroul Senior Citizens
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HOBART — The Resource, Planning and Development Commission hearing into the proposed Southwood woodchip mill and wood-fired power station ended on May 14 — two weeks after what was meant to be a three-day hearing began.
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Students for Refugees launched HOBART — On May 8, students at the Hobart campus of the University of Tasmania launched a Students for Refugees group. Shua Garfield told Green Left Weekly: "The formation of this group shows that you don't need
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SYDNEY — "The ALP — whose party is it?" was one of the questions addressed in a lively debate between trade union and other left activists at a Socialist Alliance-sponsored seminar held at Parramatta Town Hall on May 11. The
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HOBART — Hundreds of people have attended refugee solidarity activities here in recent weeks. This bodes well for a major rally against the mandatory detention of asylum seekers on June 22. On May 2, 250 people attended a
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BY OWAIN LEWIS-JONES DARWIN — Eleven protesters from the Network Against Prohibition (NAP) stormed the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly chamber on May 14. The group was protesting the introduction of the Labor government's "drug house"