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  • Coober Pedy says no to nuclear dump

    Coober Pedy says no to nuclear dumpThe people of Coober Pedy, in outback South Australia, are organising to oppose the National Radioactive Waste Repository (i.e. dump) proposed for Billa Kalina. A public meeting was organised in

  • Timbarra protesters attacked

    Timbarra protesters attackedLISMORE — Police and mining company employees have violently attacked and injured protesters and local residents at the gates of the Timbarra gold mine near Tenterfield in north-eastern NSW.

  • Loose cannons

    Beginning of wisdom "Now it seems we were just pawns." — Andrew McKellar, recruited as a wharfie for the Patrick union-busting operation but dumped when Patrick settled with the MUA. McKellar and another scab are suing Patrick and industrial

  • Mixed results in Wollongong SRC elections

    Mixed results in Wollongong SRC electionsWOLLONGONG — Wollongong University Student Representative Council elections were held on October 13-15. There were mixed outcomes for the left, with good results for the SRC and some

  • Rio Tinto sacks Hunter Valley miners

    Rio Tinto sacks Hunter Valley minersRio Tinto, the giant Anglo-Australian transnational, announced on October 20 the sacking of 115 coalminers at its Hunter Valley No. 1 open-cut mine. The retrenchments are aimed at

  • Touch One, Touch All premiered

    Touch One, Touch All premieredWOLLONGONG — On October 21, 50 people attended the launch of the new film by Peter Ewer, Touch One, Touch All, about government attacks on unionists in the Illawarra. The film draws parallels

  • 'Vote for a steelworker, not a politician!'

    'Vote for a steelworker, not a politician!' NEWCASTLE — Green Left Weekly's STEVE O'BRIEN interviewed GEOFF PAYNE, Democratic Socialist candidate for the federal seat of Newcastle, between his shifts at the BHP steelworks. The vote in the seat

  • Protest planned against nuclear ship visit

    Protest planned against nuclear ship visitHOBART — Activists and progressive groups have vowed to protest against two US nuclear warships due to arrive here in the next month. The first ship is scheduled to

  • Workers First contests organiser elections

    Workers First contests organiser electionsThe Workers First team, which won the leadership of the Victorian branch of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union earlier this year, is standing candidates for seven organiser

  • Dorf workers push company back

    Dorf workers push company backMELBOURNE — After two weeks of being locked out, about 200 workers at the Email Dorf plant in Melbourne's south-east have returned to work after the company accepted most of the workers' demands.

  • Land for health swap 'an outrage'

    Land for health swap 'an outrage'DARWIN — The Jawoyn Association announced last week that, following negotiations with the Northern Territory government, it would drop a claim for land 20 kilometres south of Katherine in

  • Resistance seminar on fighting racism

    Resistance seminar on fighting racismSYDNEY — Forty people, including a number of new faces, attended an anti-racism seminar held by Resistance on Saturday, October 10. The event sought to get to the heart of racism and how to