Hundreds of people rallied in Australia's cities on May 15 to mark World Climate Day, a non-government day of action to heighten awareness about global climate change. On the same day, several environment and development groups
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SYDNEY — The Maritime Union of Australia's (MUA) Action Conference on May 17 attracted around 1500 participants, mainly maritime union delegates and workers, from around Australia. The striking Vickery workers sent a
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But I'll try "It's difficult to say that the [human rights] trend is getting better." — Allan Taylor, Australian ambassador to Indonesia, on the situation in East Timor. Willing "There seems to be, compared to last time I was here [East
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SYDNEY — Teachers from public and Catholic schools, TAFE and the Adult Migrant Education Service resolved at joint meetings across NSW on May 10 to strike for three days in the week following the May 21 state budget unless their
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1974: Portugese dictator overthrown. New political parties formed in East Timor: Timorese Democratic Union (UDT), Social Democratic Association of Timor (ASDT; later Fretilin) and Timorese Popular Democratic Association (Apodeti). October 16
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"No free trade without free trade unions" was the theme of the 300-strong May day march on May 1 in Adelaide. Melanie Sjoberg reports that Greg Mead, author of The Royal Omission, told the crowd about the gross misrepresentation of Aboriginal culture
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[The following is an excerpt from a letter written to Resistance by Xanana Gusmao, jailed leader of the National Council of Maubere Resistance (CNRM) in 1995]. I am honoured and proud for the Maubere people to receive your letter. Proud because
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Thousands of public servants from around the country attended stop-work meetings of the Community and Public Sector Union on May 9 to decide on strategies to fight the Howard government's attacks on the public service. From Sydney, Sarah Harris
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Kathy Newnam BRISBANE — Three hundred students rallied at the University of Queensland on May 9, demanding proper representation by the Liberal-run student union. In response, 60 police were called onto the campus, eight students were arrested
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ADELAIDE — The Keep Telstra Public Alliance has been formed to lead the campaign against the privatisation of Telstra. KTPA brings together a range of organisations such as the CEPU, CPSU, ACF, Friends of the Earth, Green Party,
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ACT government back-flip on pay dealCANBERRA — When ACT unions arrived at the Australian Industrial Relations Commission on May 9, they thought they were about to ratify across-government-services enterprise agreements. Instead
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Workers at CRA-owned Novacoal's Vickery mine are still on strike after the federal Industrial Relations Commission arbitrated on April 24 in favour of management, allowing the introduction of 12-hour shifts for a six-month