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  • Festival Records picketed

    Festival Records picketed By Shane Bentley & Paul Howes SYDNEY — After Festival Records issued redundancy notices to 50 workers at its Pyrmont plant on May 12, members of the National Union of Workers set up a picket line to demand a

  • ANU activists commit to NUS referendum

    ANU activists commit to NUS referendumCANBERRA — Australian National University student activists are busy collecting the 800 signatures necessary to force a referendum on affiliation to the National Union of Students

  • First lockout under Workplace Relations Act

    First lockout under Workplace Relations ActADELAIDE — All 20 workers, members of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union, at Radco Crane Hire have been locked out and subsequently sacked after the collapse of

  • Tasmanian upper house vote records far right's decline

    Tasmanian upper house vote records far right's declineLAUNCESTON — On May 31, in elections to Tasmania's Legislative Council, voters rejected the homophobic, religious fundamentalist conservatives who have traditionally

  • Student editors' appeal fails

    Student editors' appeal failsMELBOURNE — The former editors of LaTrobe University's student newspaper, Rabelais, face criminal charges following the rejection of an appeal to the Federal Court. On June 6 Justice Ron

  • Students force libraries victory

    Students force libraries victoryHOBART — On June 10, the vice chancellor's executive at the University of Tasmania decided to postpone for at least 12 months a plan to merge the two main science libraries into the main

  • Traditional owners fight Jabiluka mine

    DARWIN — The Aboriginal traditional owners of the site of the proposed Jabiluka uranium mine have taken their struggle to stop the mine to the Federal Court. The validity of the Jabiluka mineral lease is being challenged by

  • Loose cannons

    Really?! "Like many people on the right of the Labor Party, I never believed in socialism." — Former ALP minister and current Packer flunkey Graham Richardson. Hilarious "It's funny that all roads still seem to lead to Mr Packer

  • Carr saves polluter from Land and Environment Court

    WOLLONGONG — Two hundred and fifty angry residents packed into the Warrawong Community Centre on June 1. They heard barrister Tim Robertson describe how the Carr government, on May 29, rushed legislation

  • Berowra Valley bush land under threat

    SYDNEY — On May 12, members of the United Residents Action Group blockaded bulldozers that were about to begin work on a new development in the Berowra Valley. Landcom — the NSW government developer — had put in an

  • WA unionists prepare for a fight

    WA unionists prepare for a fightPERTH — Richard Court's Coalition government and its mates in the Building and Construction Industry Taskforce (whose main "task" consists of attacking construction unions) are trying to

  • TWU truck ban wins pay rises

    TWU truck ban wins pay risesBRISBANE — Nearly 20 transport companies in Queensland have agreed to pay wage increases of 11%, in the face of nationwide black bans by the Transport Workers Union on employers who refuse to pay