Paul Benedek
Controversial decisions by the state Labor government to forcibly amalgamate several councils dominated the March 27 NSW council election.
In the City of Sydney lord mayoral contest, the thinly veiled ALP manoeuver to gain Labor
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Graham Matthews The workers' rights lobby group Unite, which formed in Melbourne in 2003 to "name and shame" dodgy bosses in the retail and fast-food industry, relaunched itself as an unregistered union on May 30. "The fast-food and retail
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Kamala Emanuel, Hobart "No police state" and "No to Howard's terror laws" were the mobilising slogans of a civil liberties rally held on November 12 and attended by 800 people. Organised by the Tasmanian Council of Civil Liberties, the rally was
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Paul Benedek, Sydney The Socialist Alliance is running 24 candidates across 10 councils in the March 27 NSW local government elections. The alliance is also fielding candidates for mayor in Newcastle City, Wollongong, Canterbury and City of
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Ian Jamieson Following the death of miner Larry Knight and the rescue of two trapped miners 14 days after the April 25 rock fall at the Beaconsfield goldmine in northern Tasmania, on May 22 the state government established a special inquiry to
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Emma Murphy, Adelaide The Rice/Rumsfeld Reception Committee (RRRC) has received, from various sources, reliable information that US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld will be in Adelaide on November 16-18. This information follows several months
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1 Schools funding policy condemned Prime Minister John Howard's March 11 announcement of a new federal funding policy for schools was condemned by Greens Senator Kerry Nettle. "Today's announcement decreases the public schools sector share of
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Kim White, Sydney On May 6, 500-700 people attended the Rock the Block festival in the inner-city suburb of Redfern, enjoying five hours of Indigenous and non-Indigenous music and films. Money raised by the festival will contribute towards a new
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DARWIN — The Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Union (LHMU) launched a campaign on October 22 to win better wages and professional recognition for child-care workers in the Northern Territory. The LHMU has targeted low wages as one of the key
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Stuart Martin, Melbourne Amid a howl of calls from employers for Victorian Premier Steve Bracks' Labor government to get tough on unions because the state is supposedly heading into industrial chaos, the government has threatened to wage war on
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MELBOURNE — On April 6, 85 people attended a forum at Melbourne University organised by Students Against War and Racism on the topic of Islamophobia and anti-Arab racism in Australia and the United States. Hala Abdelmonour, founder of the
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Pip Hinman, Sydney "It seems that the Howard government is happy to recognise same-sex partnerships to deny us our civil rights, but when it comes to extending rights, they exclude us", Community Action Against Homophobia (CAAH) spokesperson Rachel