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  • Environmental vandalism escalates

    Environmental vandalism escalates On March 14, the federal government announced a decision to move the Coode Island chemical and fuel storage plant near Melbourne to Point Lillias. Port Lillias is protected by the international Ramsar convention

  • Loose cannons

    Inspired research "Want to improve the lot of welfare beneficiaries? Cut the benefits. That's the conclusion to New Zealand Treasury research ..." — Financial Review, March 6. Save it for pensioners? "There is something wrong when

  • NSW hospital waiting lists grow

    NSW hospital waiting lists growSYDNEY — In the 1995 state election campaign, Premier Bob Carr promised to cut hospital waiting lists by half or to resign after one year. On March 7, the state government conceded that

  • Doctors strike against Medicare cut

    More than 1000 doctors across NSW have been on strike since March 10 in a bid to reverse legislation restricting new doctors' access to Medicare provider numbers. Mass meetings on March 14 resolved to broaden the campaign,

  • Socialists do well in Brisbane election

    Socialists do well in Brisbane electionBRISBANE — "The vote of more than 6% for Democratic Socialist candidates in the Brisbane City Council election on March 15 shows that a sizeable number of people are beginning to look

  • Stephanie Wilkinson

    Stephanie Wilkinson Stephanie Wilkinson, the founder of Australians Against Executions, died of cancer in Sydney on March 8. She was 62. Stephanie — half her friends knew her as Stephanie, the other half as "Jill", a nickname given to go

  • Save Redfern Block campaign continues

    Save Redfern Block campaign continuesSYDNEY — Rumours of the appearance of bulldozers from March 17 circulated as Aboriginal Redfern Housing Coalition members mobilised for an Aboriginal Housing Company meeting on March

  • New team wins majority in ACT CPSU

    CANBERRA — Delegates attending the March 13 branch conference of the ACT Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) expressed strong support for a united and effective fight against attacks on the public service. The meeting

  • Coalition for Access to Justice formed

    Coalition for Access to Justice formedBRISBANE — A rally of 200 legal aid and community legal services workers and supporters on March 14 voted to form the Queensland Coalition for Access to Justice (QCAJ) to fight

  • NTU students vote for education campaign

    NTU students vote for education campaignDARWIN — The Education Action Group at Northern Territory University put a motion to a student general meeting on March 12 for a campaign against the Liberals' attacks on higher

  • Roxby to test law on union access

    Roxby to test law on union accessADELAIDE — The Roxby Downs uranium mine in South Australia is shaping up as a major test site of the Howard government's new industrial relations laws. Western Mining Corporation

  • 'McMountains' development defeated

    'McMountains' development defeated KATOOMBA — In a victory for grassroots community action, the fast food giant McDonald's informed local activists organised in the Mountains Against McDonald's (MAM) group on March 7 that it would not