Jeremy Smith
The national council of the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU), meeting in Melbourne on September 30-October 2, voted to support the campaign to end the imprisonment of militant unionist Craig Johnston.
Attended by 200
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Mel Hughes, Sydney This year's Queer Collaborations (QC) conference, held at the University of New South Wales on July 3-7, was attended by 250 people, most of them university students. The conference — Australia's largest national forum for
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Jim McIlroy, Brisbane "Time for a change: Refugees; Iraq; Medicare; social services; education; Aboriginal rights. Join a range of community groups to say 'enough is enough'." This call is featured on publicity for Brisbane's "Time for a change"
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#3 NTEU strikes at two universities MELBOURNE — Members of the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) held 24-hour strikes at RMIT and the Victoria University of Technology on September 23. Staff at both universities are in the midst of
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Mick Bull, Melbourne A community assembly was set up on August 4 outside the gates of Amcor Flexibles' factory in the northern suburb of Preston to support union delegates and members victimised by the anti-union packaging giant. The workers belong
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An August 21 dinner organised to raise funds for Green Left Weekly and the Socialist Alliance turned into a celebration of Venezuela's Bolivarian revolution, after Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez easily defeated a recall referendum on August 15.
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Jon Lamb, Darwin After 14 months of drawn-out negotiations with Charles Darwin University management over pay and conditions, unions covering academic and general staff are taking action to improve the lot of their members. On September 15, staff
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Dale Mills, Sydney Forklift driver Mohamed Abdulrahman was awarded $25,000 compensation and legal costs by the NSW Administrative Decisions Tribunal on August 1 after the tribunal upheld his complaint that he had been subjected to illegal racial
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Green Left Weekly is the most popular Australian political website, and has been on top for each of the last four quarterly surveys, according to a Hitwise report in the August 10 Australian Financial Review. The chief marketing officer at web
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Marce Cameron, Brisbane An alliance of progressive organisations is planning a peaceful rally and march at PM John Howard's official election campaign launch on September 26. This will be one week before the national pre-election "End the lies"
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'Calming' Baghdad "Iraq, US Forces Raid Sadr City to Calm Baghdad" — Headline on US Bloomberg news service report on an August 7 US-led military attack that set off a two-hour gun battle with supporters of anti-US Shiite cleric Moqtada al Sadr.
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Michael McDonald, Brisbane On August 3, a public meeting at City Hall on the theme "Australia at the Crossroads" was attended by 800 people. The meeting called for "Howard out", but also for any new government to govern in the interests of all