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  • Footwear workers win demands

    Footwear workers win demandsMELBOURNE — Workers at the Michaelis Bayley footwear factory have ended an 18-day strike after reaching a settlement with management on April 24. The demands of the workers for a 10% pay

  • NUS affiliation debated at UQ

    BRISBANE —It is almost certain that a referendum on whether the University of Queensland should affiliate to the National Union of Students (NUS) will be put to students during May. How activists should approach this referendum

  • Meeting discusses political crisis in Indonesia

    Meeting discusses political crisis in IndonesiaSYDNEY — "The Suharto regime is entering a phase of political crisis", began a lecture delivered by Max Lane to an audience of more than 100 people at Sydney University on

  • Demand protection for Aboriginal site

    Demand protection for Aboriginal siteSYDNEY — The National Aboriginal History and Heritage Council protested at Bob Carr's Heritage Week address on April 22 to draw attention to its demand that the "Day of Mourning"

  • August 19 activist acquitted

    August 19 activist acquittedCANBERRA — Martin Iltis was acquitted of assaulting police in the Magistrate's Court on April 24. The charge arose from the demonstrations at Parliament House on August 19. Police claimed Iltis

  • CPSU members show strong support for industrial action

    National stop-work meetings of Community and Public Sector Union members on April 23 decided on a week of two-hour rolling stoppages as a part of a campaign in defence of jobs and conditions proposed by the national management committee of the CPSU.

  • Concert highlights plight of Timorese asylum seekers

    Concert highlights plight of Timorese asylum seekersMELBOURNE — A free concert and rally in support of East Timorese asylum seekers attracted 5000 people to the Treasury Gardens on April 20. The Painters and Dockers,

  • WA unions: 'April 29 is only round one'

    PERTH — WA Premier Richard Court and labour minister Graham Kierath claim to take their jobs seriously. After a hard week at the office ramming the "third wave" anti-union legislation through the lower house without debate,

  • Rally demands real jobs

    Rally demands real jobsWOLLONGONG — A "No Work for the Dole" rally organised by Resistance and the Democratic Socialist Party was held at Wollongong Mall on April 19. More than 100 people came to the event, which was

  • Loose cannons

    Insensitive "One would have hoped that they could have found a good British company to run the agency. Some of our old boys will regard it as terribly insensitive." — An official of the Royal British Legion, on news that a German company has

  • UTS council discusses occupation

    UTS council discusses occupationSYDNEY — The council of the University of Technology, Sydney, met on April 24 to decide who should pay the costs associated with the Easter occupation by students protesting against