By Nick Everett BRISBANE Fifty people attended a September 30 dinner, organised by Aksi (Indonesia Solidarity Action), to raise funds for East Timor. The event, which commemorated the bloody 1965 coup which brought to power Indonesia's New Order,
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All around Australia, there were protests during the week of the second French nuclear test in the Pacific. While the largest demonstration was in Brisbane (see page 3), actions also took place in other cities. Dave Wright reports from Sydney that
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By Freya Pinney WOLLONGONG — On October 26 women will take to the streets for the first time here to protest against violence against women in the Illawarra. For years women from Wollongong have been travelling to Sydney to participate in the
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By Ben Courtice HOBART Moves by the federal government to shore up its environment image before the next election have amounted to next to nothing for the Tarkine wilderness area in Tasmania's north-west. The forests of the Tarkine and the Great
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CANBERRA — ACT Greens member of the Legislative Assembly, LUCY HORODNY, spoke with Green Left Weekly's JAMES VASSILOPOULOS four days before the handing down of the ACT budget. Question: It's been six months since you were elected to the
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The Save Albert Park (SAP) committee is gearing up for another major demonstration on October 15. Green Left Weekly's JEREMY SMITH and FELICITY WHITWORTH spoke to campaign convener IAIN STEWART, and acting campaign coordinator, CAROLYN HUTCHINS.
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Visionary "If we stick to these hard-core issues, we are going to win the next election and we're going to continue to have the most visionary prime minister Australia has ever had." — Former NSW premier Neville Wran, waxing lyrical at the state
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By Chris Spindler SYDNEY — The Carr Labor government's first seven months in NSW have been marked by broken promises, funding cuts to social services and a clear policy bias towards big business, all setting the tone for its first budget, on
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By Alex Bainbridge NEWCASTLE — Academic work bans were lifted at Newcastle University on September 21 following the abolition of promotion quotas by the university council the previous day. Bans had been in place for four months following a
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MELBOURNE Solidarity groups for Bougainville and East Timor are organising a joint action to highlight Australia's complicity in both conflicts. AHAB (Australian Humanitarian Aid for Bougainville) and a new group, 9 Days Direct Action for a Free
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By Sue Bull CANBERRA — The ACT Government Service Budget Disputes Committee of the Trades and Labour Council is finally ready to implement coordinated industrial action to oppose the Carnell government's budget cuts of September 19. At a meeting
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By April Bragg and David Mizon MELBOURNE — On September 21 and 22, a community picket was set up in the Braybrook public housing estate to stop the eviction of a Somali family. The Farah family of five children, their mother and her