By Sally Mitchell DARWIN — On October 12, Aboriginal people from four town camps in Katherine travelled to Darwin in a bus convoy to protest about housing shortages. Four new camps are urgently required to house 71 families now living with minimal
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By Bill Mason BRISBANE — Meatworkers, locked out of the Beaudesert plant of the Australian Meat Holdings Ltd (AMH) after they struck in opposition to a non-union enterprise agreement, are continuing their picket. The enterprise agreement involves a
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By Bernard Wunsch BRISBANE — About 300 high school students walked out of their classes on October 18 and rallied at the Roma Street Forum in protest against Australian uranium sales to France and French nuclear testing in the Pacific. The walkout
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By Tony Iltis CANBERRA — The history of the revolutionary socialist movement in Australia was the subject of the 1995 Jim Percy Memorial Lecture on October 18. Delivered by Democratic Socialist Party national secretary John Percy, the lecture
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By Jorge Jorquera PERTH — The sight of Perth City railway station empty would usually be considered a disaster from the point of view of a regular Green Left Weekly seller. But on October 17, it was an inspiring sight as Western Australia was
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By Ray Fulcher MELBOURNE — More than 500 people packed into the North Melbourne Town Hall on October 20 to hear journalist and human rights campaigner John Pilger speak about East Timor's struggle for independence. The meeting was organised by
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By Tom Wilson SYDNEY — It's 7am, and across the city thousands of people are waking up to their clock radios, rubbing their eyes and preparing to go to work. But in the inner west suburb of Sydenham, residents are already out of bed and preparing
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By Melanie Sjoberg ADELAIDE — A combined meeting of PSA/SAIT School Service Officers was held on October 19 to plan the next phase of a campaign to defend members jobs in this state. The meeting passed a motion calling on the Brown Liberal
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By Karen Fry NEWCASTLE — Fifty people protested outside the Department of Training and Education's regional office in Newcastle on October 16. The focus of the action was the Carr government's decision, announced in the October 9 state budget, to
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By Dave Wright and Nick Soudakoff SYDNEY — Following in the pattern of Labor and Liberal governments in other states, the NSW Carr Labor government slashed public sector jobs in its October 10 budget. This follows seven years of Liberal government
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Tarkine campaign gathers strengthBy Ben Courtice HOBART An extraordinary meeting of the state Liberal government's house committee looks set to ban protests from the grounds of Parliament House. This follows a vigil and rally to save the Tarkine
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By Ben Alterman CASTLEMAINE — Inmates and staff at Victoria's Loddon and Pentridge prisons were informed on October 6, by the head of the Department of Health and Community Services Dr Graham-Rouch, that a recently released inmate had been