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Tasmanians demand a GE-free zoneHOBART — Three hundred people at a meeting here on June 1 voted almost unanimously to demand that the state government make Tasmania a genetic engineering-free zone. Those present called on state

Police stop students entering campusWOLLONGONG — Fifteen police and security guards blocked 20 students' access to the opening of the University of Wollongong's new Shoalhaven campus on June 2. The students had been attempting

Groups come together PERTH — Sixty representatives of 30 community action groups met here on May 27 to share ideas and experiences and explore ways of working together on environmental and other community issues. The meeting, initiated by Greens

Students to converge to save the environmentBRISBANE — Students, activists and environmentalists from around the continent will converge on Griffith University here on July 3 for Australia's largest student environment

Getting to the point "The young people who used to hang around now move off when police are around. One person was searched 38 times without finding a knife on him so it was getting to a point of harassment." — NSW Police commander Richard

Brisbane Resistance Centre launchedBRISBANE — The room swayed to the melodies of the Cuban Revolution while celebrants feasted on Cuban food at the launch of the new Resistance Centre here on May 27. Forty people answered

Anti-nuke cycle to raise awarenessDARWIN — The second "Cycle Against the Nuclear Cycle" left the Jabiluka uranium mine in Kakadu National Park on June 5 to ride the 6300 kilometres to Perth. The first cycle, from Melbourne,

PERTH — The local community in the Serpentine-Jarrahdale area 40 kilometres south of Perth has united to oppose planned sand mining in the area and to keep open a hostel for mentally ill men. Two hundred residents and their

Police withdraw charge against Aboriginal academicPOLICE HAVE dropped charges against a prominent Aboriginal academic whom they strip-searched and jailed after she allegedly accused a police officer of "acting like the Ku Klux

Teach-in provides motives for September protestsMELBOURNE — The fact that the World Economic Forum was amongst the architects of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) provides reason enough to protest against it, 100 participants at a

WA minister claims Aboriginal people safer in jailPERTH — The Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia has called for the immediate resignation of the state's Aboriginal affairs minister, Kim Hames, after he told a

BRISBANE — The Brisbane Feminist Collective held its first public meeting here on May 30, attended by 50 people. The topic of discussion was women and reproductive rights. The collective grew out of the International Women's