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  • Rallies condemn mandatory sentencing

    BRISBANE — Aboriginal elders spoke out passionately against mandatory sentencing at a rally here on March 5, branding the laws an abuse of human rights. One hundred and fifty people had gathered in heavy rain to call for an end

  • Free education, not privatisation!

    Free education, not privatisation!On March 22, students will take to the streets as part of a national day of action (NDA) called by the National Union of Students against education privatisation. This year, students at several

  • Bring Seattle protests to Australia

    MELBOURNE — Mass protests are being planned outside the Asia-Pacific Economic Summit of the World Economic Forum (WEF) to be held here on September 11 to 13. The conference is jointly sponsored by the Business Council of Australia

  • Fighting for education rights in the Philippines

    On February 14 in Manila, 3000 students participated in a rally against education funding cuts and tuition fee increases. It was the biggest student rally in three years. The budget for state universities for the year 2000 has been cut by 700 million

  • Successful radioactive waste conference

    ADELAIDE — Senator Nick Minchin, federal minister for industry, science and resources, used the platform of the People's Conference on uranium-related issues here on March 4-5 to add nothing to previous government statements about

  • Otways logging causing Geelong water shortage

    GEELONG — As Geelong enters phase two of water restrictions, 83,000 tonnes of native forest in the nearby Otways is being wood-chipped. But the four businesses involved and the Victorian state government deny any connection between

  • Loose cannons

    Exemplary "This is a great example of what government can achieve when we work in partnership with the private sector to create greatly enhanced spaces and facilities for the community." — NSW Labor deputy premier Andrew Refshauge after

  • Workers hit out at ACI

    Workers hit out at ACIMELBOURNE — Locked out workers from the ACI glass mould manufacturing plant in Box Hill halted production at the firm's bottle-making plant in Spotswood for almost 24 hours on March 6. Two days later, they

  • Union members reject undemocratic restructure

    Union members reject undemocratic restructureCANBERRA — Union delegates here have rejected their leaders' attempt to restructure the Community and Public Sector Union. A special conference of the CPSU's ACT branch on March 9

  • Arabunna Going Home camp to be re-established

    Arabunna Going Home camp to be re-establishedADELAIDE — Anti-uranium and land rights activists will travel to Lake Eyre on March 26 to re-establish the Arabunna Going Home camp, which was forced to close by Western Mining

  • News briefs

    Web site against mandatory sentencing Territorians for Effective Sentencing launched their new web site on March 5 at <http://ms.dcls.org.au&#062;. Go there now, it's mandatory! One Nation ordered to repay $500,000 BRISBANE — Pauline

  • Inner-city bypass condemned

    Inner-city bypass condemnedBRISBANE — "The ALP-controlled Brisbane City Council's planned inner-city bypass will cut a swathe through beautiful Victoria Park and spew traffic out into suburban streets already overloaded in