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  • Greeting Hanson: a protest or a party?

    NEWCASTLE — Pauline Hanson's visit here on May 30 is attracting a lot of attention. A call for a peaceful protest demonstration outside Hanson's public meeting was issued on May 17 by the Newcastle Anti-Racist Alliance

  • No fees campaign grows at Melbourne University

    No fees campaign grows at Melbourne UniversityMELBOURNE— Following the successful student day of action on May 8 and the militant occupation of Melbourne University administration, students there have

  • Pledge to block Hindmarsh Island bridge

    Pledge to block Hindmarsh Island bridgeThe passing of the Commonwealth Hindmarsh Island Bill by federal parliament on May 12 will not end the controversy over the building of the Hindmarsh Island bridge. The Kumarangk

  • Picket of Thai consulate

    Picket of Thai consulate SYDNEY — On May 15, 40 Burmese pro-democracy activists and supporters protested outside the Thai consulate against Thai Prime Minister General Chavalit Yong Chai Yud's visit to Burma the next day. Chavalit aims to

  • Green Left Weekly sellers attacked

    ADELAIDE — On May 16, five National Action thugs attacked a Resistance anti-racism stall at Central Markets in the city. Emma Webb was the only person staffing the stall at the time because another member had gone to collect

  • Loose cannons

    Aid objectives "The [Australian] Government reached a view that UNIDO's [United Nations Industrial Development Organisation] programs were not consistent with Australian aid objectives and not enough Australian firms benefited from aid

  • Rally slams federal budget

    Rally slams federal budgetBRISBANE — Several hundred unionists, students and others rallied in King George Square here on May 13 to protest against the Howard-Costello budget. The protesters then marched through city

  • BHP steelworkers in second strike

    NEWCASTLE — Thousands of BHP steelworkers around the country went on strike for the second time on May 15, to answer the Newcastle plant's manager, Bob Kirkby's, challenge that one 24-hour strike would not change BHP's mind.

  • Victorian workers demonstrate over industrial safety

    Victorian workers demonstrate over industrial safetyMELBOURNE — The front page of the Age on May 13 reported on a life-threatening industrial accident in which a young construction worker was buried up to his mouth in heavy

  • WA forest camp set up

    WA forest camp set upGIBLETT FOREST — Environmentalists have set up a protest/witness camp here in an effort to halt logging. Giblett state forest near Pemberton forms the heart of one of the most beautiful old-growth forest

  • Public housing loses tens of millions

    Public housing loses tens of millionsA cut of $50 million from the Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement adds up to a real cut of almost $140 million, Sally Bryant, director of the Community Housing Federation of Australia,

  • CPSU sets half-day stoppages

    Meetings of Community and Public Sector Union on May 16 voted in favour of a national executive proposal to conduct statewide half-day rolling stoppages in the next few weeks and hold a day of national support on May 23, as part of the campaign for