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  • Job delegate needs solidarity

    Trish Corcoran, Sydney Barry Hemsworth, the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) delegate at Botany Cranes, one of the largest mobile crane businesses in Sydney, was sacked on September 6 for "gross insubordination". Hemsworth

  • 'Defeating the monster that is imperialism'

    Emma Clancy These three young activists will be special guests at the July 8-10 Resistance national conference in Sydney. Maria Rosa Jimenez, Venezuela Maria Rosa Jimenez is the head of student affairs of the Venezuelan socialist youth

  • Trades Hall meeting against Mater privatisation

    Simon Jones, Newcastle On March 31, 550 people crowded into a public meeting against the NSW Labor government's planned part-privatisation of the Mater Hospital. The meeting was organised by the Newcastle Trades Hall Council's Defend Public Health

  • Victory for TCC workers

    Sam Wainwright, Perth Forty workers known as the TCC 40 and their union, who were being sued by Total Corrosion Control under the Howard government's new anti-worker laws, claimed victory on September 21 when the company advised the Australian

  • Shire opposes nuclear reactor

    PERTH — The Kalamunda Shire council, which covers some of the outer suburbs east of Perth, has written to Stuart Henry, Liberal MHR for the seat of Hasluck, to express its opposition to the location of any nuclear reactor within the shire. This

  • Showing heart for refugees

    Andrew Hall, Canberra Multi-coloured hearts have been signed and decorated with refugee-rights slogans and images to create the "field of hearts". This growing project provides a vehicle for people to symbolically "show their hearts for

  • ABC's independence under threat

    SYDNEY — Addressing 60 people at the Parramatta Town Hall on July 25, ABC TV's NSW Stateline program presenter Quentin Dempster challenged the recent appointment of conservative historian Keith Windschuttle to the ABC's board of directors. Dempster

  • Protesters 'dam' Beattie

    BRISBANE — "No dams!", chanted 400 protesters angered by the proposed Mary River dam near Gympie as they marched on the ALP state conference here on June 10. While Labor Premier Peter Beattie says the project is vital to address Queensland's water

  • British journalist attacks media distortions

    Chris Slee, Melbourne Speaking to at least 500 people at a public meeting at Melbourne University on March 11, British freelance journalist Yvonne Ridley detailed the lies and manipulation of the media by the US and British governments during the

  • Free speech victory

    Dave Holmes, Melbourne Green Left Weekly has won the right to resume its Saturday morning stalls at the big Barkly Square shopping centre in the inner-Melbourne suburb of Brunswick. After years of responsible and trouble-free operation, Green

  • Protesters score MP's sell out to Big Coal

    Simon Butler, Newcastle Climate action group Rising Tide Newcastle held a protest rally outside the Hunter Street office of federal Labor MP Sharon Grierson on May 29 to condemn her for failing to oppose the new coal export terminal in Newcastle

  • Redfern meeting denounces racist police violence

    Lachlan Malloch, Sydney "The views of the Aboriginal community in general, and residents of the Redfern Block in particular, have fallen on deaf ears since the death of TJ [Thomas Hickey]", Redfern Aboriginal leader Lyall Munro told a meeting of