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  • Geelong unionists shame Aldi

    Sue Bull, Geelong Twenty trade unionists and their supporters held a protest on November 4 outside the Aldi Supermarket in Belmont, a residential suburb three kilometres south-east of Geelong, to highlight that Aldi compels all its employees on to

  • Police attack Camp Sovereignty departure

    MELBOURNE — In the early hours of May 11, police attacked 150 Indigenous activists and their supporters as they removed embers from the "sacred flame" that had been burning in the Kings Domain park in central Melbourne since the Camp Sovereignty

  • Nettle attacks Latham over gay marriage ban

    Jon Edwards, Canberra On February 4, Greens senator Kerry Nettle expressed concern at comments made by federal ALP leader Mark Latham that rule out a future Labor government's support for gay marriage. At the time he was elected as ALP

  • Ambulance officers stop work

    BRISBANE — Ambulance officers around Queensland stopped work on October 26 to demand improvements in staffing and working conditions, in the first statewide strike in history. Around 500 paramedics and their families demonstrated outside the Kedron

  • June 28 demo 'a damn fine idea'

    Susan Austin, Hobart Kevin Harkins, state secretary of the Electrical Trades Union in Tasmania, spoke to Green Left Weekly about the June 28 national day of action against Howard's Work Choices laws. It is "a damn fine idea", he said. "You need

  • Union network launched on NSW north coast

    Andrew Watson, Lismore The Northern Rivers Union Network (NRUN) was formally launched at the "End the lies" rally in Lismore on October 2. Richard White, a member of the Community and Public Sector Union, spoke on behalf of NRUN about the

  • New attack on abortion access

    Kylie Moon, Melbourne Under new regulations expected to be introduced by the state Labor government, women wanting to terminate a pregnancy after 20 weeks' gestation will be required to undergo mandatory counselling and a mandatory "cooling-off"

  • Blair gets 'welcome he deserves'

    Nick Everett, Canberra British PM Tony Blair received a 21-gun salute and gushing praise from both PM John Howard and Labor leader Kim Beazley when he arrived at federal parliament on March 27. But a more fitting tribute was provided by 150

  • Don't vote for Howard!

    The formidable figures of US President George Bush and his puppet-in-tow, PM John Howard, have appeared regularly after school on the busy Hume Highway near Yagoona Public School, imploring passers-by not to vote for the Howard government.From

  • Militant mood at cross-union delegates' meeting

    Ben Courtice, Melbourne PM John Howard is "Public Enemy No 1" and "we must get him out of office", Victorian Trades Hall Council (VTHC) secretary Brian Boyd told 1800 union delegates on March 29. Boyd announced the next union protests against

  • Hobart socialists hold election launch

    Alex Bainbridge, Hobart On September 18, 50 people rallied on the Parliament Lawns to launch the Socialist Alliance's election campaigns for the federal seats of Denison and Franklin. Denison candidate Kamala Emanuel said that "socialism

  • Victorian conference prepares struggle

    Dick Nichols, Melbourne The March 18 Victorian state conference of the Socialist Alliance, held in Melbourne's Trades Hall, focused on the fight against the Howard government's Work Choices legislation and its racist policies against Muslim and