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  • Coalition to save Adelaide Hills face

    Coalition to save Adelaide Hills faceADELAIDE — "The hills face is not protected, but ordinary people think it is", Ben Carslake, secretary of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) told Green Left

  • Toxic exports: the international waste trade

    In response to pollution scandals and toxic disasters, in the 1980s the rich industrialised countries of the OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) adopted relatively strict regulations governing the disposal

  • Industrial round-up

    AdelaideNineteen waterside workers at Port Adelaide were sacked on March 17 after refusing to work "double header shifts" in protest over the sacking of 55 workers in Sydney. Daryl Grey, South Australian branch

  • Protesters confront Indonesian minister

    Protesters confront Indonesian ministerMELBOURNE — A picket was organised outside the World Congress Centre on February 8 by Environmental Youth Alliance, the Indonesian solidarity group Aksi and Resistance to highlight

  • SA Liberals target health, Workcover

    ADELAIDE — When state parliament convened on February 9, it started to bring home the dramatic changes the new Liberal government intends to make in favour of employers, at the expense of the public and workers. Along

  • Protests over Bougainville

    Protests over Bougainville Around 30 protesters picketed the AMP building, home of the mining giant CRA, in Brisbane on February 10. The protest, organised by the Bougainville Freedom Movement as part of a national day of action, aimed to

  • Blacks condemn Goss on textbook

    BRISBANE — Aboriginal organisations have slammed Queensland Premier Wayne Goss's decision to order the rewriting of a draft year 5 social studies source book. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education Consultative

  • Stoned Week planned

    Stoned Week plannedBRISBANE — The focus of the University of Queensland's O-Week and Recovery Week in 1994 is the decriminalisation of marijuana. This will culminated in the organisation of a Stoned Week, including a

  • Youth graffiti

    Youth graffiti BRISBANE — A Resistance "Graffiti for Youth Rights" action was held in the city mall on Friday, February 4. The stall and banner graffiti took up issues such as the Liberal candidate for lord mayor's proposed youth curfew in the

  • Loose cannons

    Democrat "We don't have a problem with people coming from other sides. But if the ANC comes here I will order my people to kill them." — Katlehong Inkatha Freedom Party youth leader Jeffrey Sibiya, quoted in the Sunday Times, January 23.

  • Ocean dumping slammed

    Ocean dumping slammedHOBART — About 100 people gathered outside federal Labor minister Duncan Kerr's office at lunchtime on February 11 to protest the against latest exemption granted to Pasminco Metals-EZ, which allows

  • Goss picket at UQ

    Goss picket at UQBRISBANE — Due to a decline in the effectiveness of the ALP club at the University of Queensland, Premier Wayne Goss will be visiting the St Lucia campus on Wednesday, February 16, as part of a recruiting