By Bill Mason BRISBANE — There was sufficient evidence for a jury to convict six police officers of depriving three Aboriginal youths of their liberty, John Gerard QC, representing the Aboriginal Legal Service told the Queensland Supreme Court on
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By Emma Webb ADELAIDE — Over 100 Semaphore residents and environmental activists have been blockading bulldozers and trucks from sand mining Semaphore beach. Since 1974 the Coastal Protection Board (CPB) has regularly moved sand from the beach,
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By Karen Fletcher SYDNEY — NSW TAFE teachers will strike for 24 hours on November 14 to protest the state ALP government's application of national competition policy to vocational education and training (VET) — which expressly goes against ALP
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By Jolyon Campbell and Jeremy Smith MELBOURNE — In the last three weeks Victorian premier, Jeff Kennett, has upped the ante against the Save Albert Park (SAP) campaign. On October 23, in a wild outburst, Kennett accused the protest group, its
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By Liam Mitchell SYDNEY — Approximately 800 people rallied at Tempe Reserve on November 5 as part of the ongoing campaign against aircraft noise in southern Sydney suburbs. The rally, organised by the coalition of 13 councils that formed to
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By Hendrik Gout ADELAIDE — In two months' time a multinational consortium will take control of the state's water supply. United Water, a French, English and Australian firm, has the contract to deliver water to every house, shop, office, factory
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By Anthony Benbow PERTH — After a three-month campaign of union action, the Western Australian government has been forced to back down on in industrial relations "reforms". In emergency negotiations with union officials on November 6-7, Premier
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By Bill Mason A group of Torres Strait islanders, led by Jim Akee, have held meetings on the Murray Islands in preparation for a move to declare the islands independent from Australia and set up an interim government. The independence move has drawn
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By Dom Bromilow John Ondawarme and Matthew Jamieson spoke about the movement for a free West Papua at a November 7 meeting, co-sponsored by Resistance and the Australia West Papua Association. They said that, while the establishment media had largely
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By Chris Spindler SYDNEY — Members of the CFMEU working at the Prince Alfred Hospital site have had their pay stolen. As a result there is an "all day, every day picket" at the site and a black ban on any further work until the workers get paid.
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By Sujatha Fernandes SYDNEY — More than 3000 people rallied in Burwood Park on November 11 in a prayer meeting and fast organised by the Australasian Federation of Tamil Associations. The event was part of an international day of action in
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By Adam Hanieh ADELAIDE — Activists from the Socialist Party of Australia, the Democratic Socialist Party and other progressive organisations are organising a seminar on November 19 to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the founding of the