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  • ATSIC councillors face election

    ATSIC councillors face electionThe second ATSIC (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission) Regional Council elections will be held around Australia on Saturday, December 4. The election comes at a time when

  • ACT nurses stop work

    ACT nurses stop workCanberra — Nurses at Canberra's main hospital at Woden Valley are taking industrial action to stop changes to rostering. Management is trying to pressure nurses into reducing their hours of

  • Brisbane garbos vote to end strike

    Brisbane garbos vote to end strikeBRISBANE — A dawn meeting of 300 garbage collectors in King George Square voted on November 26 to end their two-day strike and accept the city council's improved redundancy offer. The

  • Oil drilling threat to WA marine park

    Greenpeace and the Ningaloo Preservation Association on Exmouth on November 26 staged a protest against an oil company which is about to start exploration drilling next to a marine park of world significance off the WA coast. Two Greenpeace

  • Queensland rail lines reprieved

    Queensland rail lines reprievedBRISBANE — The Goss government has agreed to retain 17 rail lines threatened with closure several months ago (some conditionally), to lease one as a private siding, to mothball five and close

  • Green Alliance launches campaign

    Green Alliance launches campaignADELAIDE — "We need an alternative to  Liberal and Labor, an alternative that is inclusive and  based on grassroots democracy, one that puts  environmental and social justice

  • Residents organise against council changes

    Residents organise against council changesMELBOURNE — North Carlton residents are organising against their expulsion from the City of Melbourne, of which they have been part for more than 100 years. Following two

  • Victory for gay rights

    Victory for gay rightsADELAIDE — David Paul Jobling was granted a $60,000 compensation payment on November 22. The Equal Opportunity Tribunal declared that Jobling was prevented from taking up an artist-teaching

  • NSW South Coast unionists in court

    NSW South Coast unionists in courtWOLLONGONG — The trial of two south coast unionists is to continue, despite the disappearance of one of the prosecution's key witnesses. South Coast Labour Council (SCLC) secretary

  • Vic Trades Hall doges campaign on holidays

    Vic Trades Hall doges campaign on holidaysMELBOURNE — A Victorian Trades Hall Council shop stewards/job delegates meeting on November 24 voted to endorse action against the Kennett government's latest attacks on Workcover

  • Youth speak out

    Youth speak outADELAIDE — The radical youth organisation Resistance held a successful youth speak-out in Rundle Mall here on Saturday, November 27. Armed with placards and leaflets displaying slogans like: "Resistance

  • Hindmarsh picket continues

    Hindmarsh picket continues ADELAIDE — Support for the Friends of Goolwa and Kumarangk — opposing the proposed Hindmarsh Island bridge and associated developments — is growing. Unions supporting this broad coalition now include all