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  • New institute to promote democracy and development

    New institute to promote democracy and developmentBy Max Lane During the Asia Pacific Solidarity Conference, the interim council of the Asia Pacific Institute for Democratisation and Development met and confirmed its membership. The members are

  • Blow to Hinchinbrook legal fight

    Blow to Hinchinbrook legal fightBRISBANE — Friends of Hinchinbrook, the group spearheading the campaign against developer Keith Williams' environmentally destructive Port Hinchinbrook resort, may be crippled after the full bench

  • Community meeting for the wharfies

    BRISBANE — Around 200 people crammed St Mary's Catholic Church on April 27 to here a report on the sacked Patrick wharfies' campaign for reinstatement. Earlier in the day, the church's priest, Father Peter Kennedy, was

  • Regional coordination

    Regional coordination The following resolution was moved by the Asia Pacific Solidarity Conference organisers and adopted by acclamation. Given imperialism's escalating attacks on the peoples of this region through the deepening and widening

  • Miners spurn Rio Tinto offer

    Miners spurn Rio Tinto offer IN AN UNOFFICIAL secret ballot, 98% of workers at the Hunter Valley No. 1 coalmine voted on April 30 to reject a new enterprise agreement proposed by management. The mine is owned by Rio Tinto, the world's biggest

  • Bigger May Day marches support MUA

    Solidarity with the Maritime Union of Australia and uniting to fight the Howard/Reith government were the key themes of May Day marches around Australia last week. The marches were bigger and broader than in recent years, clearly due to the

  • Asia Pacific women link up

    Asia Pacific women link upThe currency crisis in Asia and the International Monetary Fund's "rescue packages" are having, and will continue to have, a devastating effect on the peoples of the Asia Pacific region. Already at the

  • Raid on TWU a 'payback'

    Raid on TWU a 'payback'BRISBANE — Transport Workers Union (TWU) Queensland secretary Hughie Williams described a raid on the union's Brisbane office by officials of the Employment Advocate as a "payback" for the TWU's court

  • Sustainable Universities Month

    Sustainable Universities MonthThe National Union of Students' national environment department has named May "Sustainable Universities Month". A national campus-based campaign will highlight unsustainable university practices.

  • Union official fights political charges

    WOLLONGONG — The slogan of the old Painters and Dockers Union — Touch one, touch all — will be the message carried on May Day by members of the Eric Wicker Defence Committee, which was launched on April 7 at a meeting of

  • Philippines workers support wharfies

    Philippines workers support wharfiesMANILA — More than 100 workers demonstrated outside the Australian embassy on April 24 in support of the sacked Patrick workers and demanding their immediate reinstatement with no loss in

  • Destruction of native forests continues

    Destruction of native forests continuesOn April 20, 70 protesters gathered around Harris Daishowa's woodchipping mill in Eden, preventing 40 trucks from entering the mill. Thirteen arrests were made. The protest was part of a