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  • Newcastle rail line saved

    Simon Butler, Newcastle The three-year community campaign to save the heavy rail line into Newcastle has won. The NSW Labor government announced on February 21 that it was abandoning the unpopular plan to remove the rail line into Newcastle's CBD.

  • Rudd reads socialist manifesto

    BRISBANE — Labor foreign affairs spokesperson Kevin Rudd was spotted reading up on the Socialist Alliance's policies at a September 27 Politics in the Pub. Along with Rudd, the forum was addressed by the Greens, Democrats and Socialist Alliance

  • Interest building in Venezuelan MP's tour

    Bruce Marlowe and Marcel Cameron Australian interest in Venezuela is growing, boding well for the forthcoming tour of Dr Carolus Wimmer, Venezuelan MP to the Latin American parliament (click here for details). Partially spurred by the United

  • Karaoke against Carr&#146s cuts

    Kath O'Driscoll, Lismore On September 23, 100 people attended a "Karaoke against the cuts" protest against the NSW Labor government's "reforms" to disability services. The action was part of a state-wide protest, which included rallies on September

  • Bus drivers' strike put on hold

    HOBART — On February 1, Metro Tasmania — Tasmania's primary public transport provider — logged a claim with the Australian Industrial Relations Commission seeking an end to the bargaining period with its bus drivers. This would make a planned

  • DIMIA threatens Nauru detainees with forced deportation

    Sarah Stephen On September 13, interpreters and officers from the Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs (DIMIA) made threats of forced deportation to asylum seekers being detained on Nauru who don't agree to return

  • Invasion Day

    In cities and towns around the country on January 26, Invasion Day was marked by concerts, rallies and marches, commemorating the dispossession of Australia's Indigenous people and continuing the call for justice.From Green

  • Paramedics reject ambulance services offer

    Tony Iltis, Melbourne A mass meeting on September 8 of about 400 members of the Victorian branch of the Ambulance Employees Association (AEA) voted to reject offers put forward by the Metropolitan Ambulance Service and Rural Ambulance Victoria

  • Cronulla task force results reveal racism

    Graham Matthews, Sydney On July 18, NSW police minister Carl Scully, accompanied by assistant police commissioner Graeme Morgan, held a media conference to announce the final results of strike force Enoggera — the police task force charged with

  • Support grows for 'End the lies' rallies

    Iggy Kim, Sydney "Truth" and "lies" (and "rodents") are fast becoming hackneyed election buzz words. But the national "End the lies" rallies being held on the weekend before the elections will put back some of the real content. Since the election

  • Tens of thousands demand 'Israel out!'

    Alex Bainbridge Central Sydney was filled with throngs of people — many from the Lebanese and Palestinian communities — as 20,000 people marched on July 22 to protest the bitter injustice of Israel's latest offensive against Lebanon and

  • Howard has worked to 'dehumanise asylum seekers'

    Graham Matthews, Melbourne Prime Minister John Howard's Coalition government has "worked to dehumanise asylum seekers, to use them as a tool in wedge politics", David Ristrom, the lead Victorian Senate candidate for the Australian Greens, told an