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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

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

Terry Costello, Melbourne The March 25-28 national council meeting of the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) adopted the ACTU executive's "criminal conduct policy" resolution with only two votes against. The resolution was motivated by ACTU

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

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

1 WA teachers accept wage offer PERTH — On March 12, the Western Australian state executive of the Australian Education Union (AEU) announced that its members had voted to accept the government's certified agreement (CA) offer. The

The November 15 mass protest of hundreds of thousands of people at more than 300 venues around the country revealed the overwhelming opposition to the federal government's attacks on working people and trade unions — and that large numbers of

MELBOURNE — Seven RMIT University staff have been diagnosed with brain tumours since 1999, five in the past month. All seven have worked on the same two floors of a building at RMIT's city campus, with six of them working there for 10 years. One of

Alex Bainbridge, Hobart More than 10,000 forest campaigners took to the streets of Hobart on March 13 in a decisive display of support for preserving old-growth forests. The timber industry countered with a large mobilisation on March 16 — the

MELBOURNE — "We gotta get rid of the Howard government", Bill Shorten, the national secretary of the Australia Workers Union, told a mass meeting of 900 AWU and Health Services Union members at the Dallas Brookes Hall on November 4. Stephen

Ben Courtice, Melbourne According to the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU), 35 casual workers employed at Ballarat's MaxiTrans, which builds semi-trailers, have been sacked while 25 guest worker welders hired last year have been kept

NEWCASTLE — One-hundred TAFE workers from around the Hunter region rallied at Newcastle TAFE campus on March 12. The workers, members of the NSW Public Service Association, resolved to reinforce industrial bans to win back 50 jobs cut through NSW