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  • Workers camp at Parliament House

    By Russell Pickeringand Sue Bull On March 2, 300 workers from the Cobar CSA copper mine and Grafton's Gilbertson's meatworks picketed Parliament House to protest their sacking and the non-payment of their entitlements. The joint protest demanded

  • O-week launches campaigns

    O-week launches campaignsCANBERRA—During the recent orientation week at the Australian National University and the University of Canberra, a wide range of political issues and campaigns were initiated. At the ANU more than

  • Attacks on MUA escalate

    Waterfront bosses and the Coalition government are investigating the possibility of setting up a non-union stevedoring company in Fremantle. Other measures aimed at the Maritime Union of Australia include the planned

  • Anti-war actions continue

    Anti-war actions continueCANBERRA — On March 7, 100 people protested outside Parliament House against the continued presence of US and Australian military forces in the Persian Gulf, and for an end to sanctions on Iraq.

  • Certified agreement in Health and Family Services

    Voting on a certified agreement in the Commonwealth Department of Health and Family Services (HFS) finished during the last week in February. The agreement, which will determine the wages and conditions of HFS staff for the next 18

  • The struggle for a strong union

    Green Left Weekly's RUSSELL PICKERING spoke to STEVE ROACH, secretary of the Shearers and Rural Workers Union, about the struggle to get rural workers covered by a union which will defend their interests. Question: How did the SRWU get coverage at

  • Campaign for migrants' rights

    SYDNEY — Long Wait, Short Sight: Migrants Denied Security to Settle is the title of a resource and action kit launched at a forum of community welfare organisations on February 23. Since March 4, 1997, newly arrived migrants have been subject to a

  • Loose cannons

    No sources "I was looking to do the story yesterday, but I found it very difficult to get anything." — Raymond Snoddy, media editor of the Murdoch-owned London Times, on why the paper hadn't covered former Hong Kong governor Chris Patten's

  • Students without classrooms

    Many University of Western Sydney (UWS) students are wondering what hit their campus over the Christmas break. Not only is David Barr, the chief executive officer of Macarthur campus, pushing for up-front fees, but students on Rydalmere

  • Jabiluka campaign heats up

    The campaign by the Mirrar traditional owners and other land rights and environmental activists nationwide to stop Energy Resources Australia from opening the Jabiluka uranium mine in the World Heritage-listed Kakadu National

  • Rally in solidarity with Pivot workers

    Rally in solidarity with Pivot workersWOLLONGONG — A picket at the Pivot fertiliser plant in Port Kembla, demanding the reinstatement of sacked workers, has entered its sixth week. A solidarity rally and march are to held on