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  • Loose cannons

    What other side? "If the Labor Party doesn't, the other side of politics will force it on the agenda." — NSW ALP Premier Bob Carr on his plan to privatise the state's electricity industry. Crying all the way to the bank "No-one is

  • Victory at RMIT

    Victory at RMITMELBOURNE — In a significant victory for the campaign against fees for undergraduates, RMIT students and staff are to vote in the first "referendum" on fees ever held. The concession

  • ANU students go to the polls

    ANU students go to the polls By Will Williamsand Erin Killion CANBERRA — Elections for the students' association at the Australian National University take place this week. Green Left Weekly spoke to Dave Gosling, Resistance activist and

  • Correction

    Correction The article "Hinchinbrook campaign in court and on the water" in GLW #289 said that land purchased by Williams' Cardwell Developments was granted development approval by Cardwell Shire Council in 1995. This approval was granted in

  • Build fight back in UQ student union elections

    Build fight back in UQ student union electionsStudent union elections will take place at the University of Queensland from September 15 to 19. At a time of increasing attacks on education and

  • Push media — whether you want it or not

    Very soon every purchaser of a new Windows-based computer will have Rupert Murdoch and Kerry Packer's world view delivered right into their homes without even having to remember to subscribe. It's no fuss, no mess, no choice news on-line. Every

  • NTEU criticises Abstudy cuts

    NTEU criticises Abstudy cutsOn September 9 the National Tertiary Education and Industry Union publicly pledged support for a national day of action on September 11, organised by indigenous educators to fight cuts to

  • First death in private prison

    First death in private prisonBRISBANE — A 22-year-old white male serving a three-month sentence in Woodford private prison was found hanging by a video cord at 2.12pm on September 12. The prisoner, whose name has not

  • Activists block Eastern Distributor

    Activists block Eastern DistributorSYDNEY — Greens councillor Tom McLoughlin from Waverley Council was among eight protesters arrested on September 9 for blockading the felling of trees on the Eastern Distributor route.

  • Health battle flares in the Illawarra

    WOLLONGONG — Two hundred residents showed their disapproval of changes to services at Port Kembla Hospital by walking out of a community consultation meeting held at Warrawong Community Centre on September 3. The Illawarra

  • 'The university has been forced to listen'

    MELBOURNE — Green Left Weekly's RAY FULCHER and ALISON DELLIT spoke to a participant in the RMIT occupation, MARCEL CAMERON. Why did the university give way to the students' demands on the referendum? The student union had already put a lot of

  • Swinburne union affiliates to VTSAN and NUS

    Swinburne union affiliates to VTSAN and NUSMELBOURNE — More than 700 students attended the Swinburne Student Union (SSU) special general meeting on September 9 to change the constitution of the union and affiliate to