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  • Asbestos action on the wharves

    Ian Jamieson, Fremantle In an Australia-wide precedent, waterside workers in Fremantle have won the right to insist on safety standards on ships bearing asbestos. During the Christmas break, wharfies employed by Patricks came across suspicious

  • Timor Sea justice campaign launched

    Vannessa Hearman, Melbourne More than 40 people attended the inaugural meeting of the Timor Sea Justice Campaign on January 21. Like many others, they were concerned with the Australian government's exploitation of Timorese oil. The campaign was

  • ARTV still battling to be seen

    Noreen Navin, Sydney After a drawn-out absence from Community TV Sydney (TVS), Actively Radical TV (ARTV) has been reinstated to the community station, Channel 31. However, the conditions imposed by TVS management are unnecessarily onerous.

  • 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

  • Age

    Sue Bolton, Melbourne On February 3, John Fairfax Holdings suddenly announced the closure of its printing operations at Spencer St in the city, cutting 66 production workers' jobs. Fairfax owns the Melbourne Age, the Australian Financial Review and

  • 'No-one's rights are safe'

    PERTH — On June 25, 50 people attended a rally organised by the Refugee Rights Action Network (RRAN) for World Refugee Day, to protest the Australian government's refugee policies and legislation that would send asylum seekers who arrive in

  • 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

  • NSW ALP to back anti-Labor candidate?

    Geoff Payne, Newcastle The Queen's Birthday weekend conference of the NSW Labor Party rejected a motion, moved by the Newcastle State Electorate Council, supporting the rank-and-file preselection of Bryce Gaudry, the member for Newcastle since

  • Arrests at whaling protest

    Kerry Smith Byron Bay woman Frankie Lee was arrested outside a Japanese Airlines office on July 31 while calling on people to boycott Japanese products and services while Japan continues its whale-killing industry. Lee was charged with not following

  • Labor, Greens, socialists debate uranium mining

    Fiona Roberts, Melbourne On June 5, 180 people attended a debate on uranium mining at the Northcote Town Hall organised by the Socialist Alliance. The speakers were Martin Ferguson, Labor MP for the federal seat of Batman; Dr Jim Green, the

  • Maritime unionists takes a stand against racism

    Annolies Truman, Perth The conference of the WA branch of the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) in Fremantle on July 26-28 strongly condemned the use of section 457 visas, used by employers to bring guest workers to Australia. It denounced the

  • Climate change campaigning

    SYDNEY — Residents of Marrickville in Sydney's inner west have formed a climate change campaign group, one of many local groups forming in Sydney suburbs, including Bondi, Maroubra and Newtown. Sixteen people attended the Marrickville Climate