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Greg McFarlane, Sydney More than 100 people attended a colourful rally outside Tony Abbott's Manly office on September 25 to express their anger at the dishonesty of the Howard government. Representatives of the Socialist Alliance, the Stop the

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

Abetz dodges lie-detector test HOBART — Members of the Socialist Alliance gathered outside Liberal Senator Eric Abetz's office on September 15 to challenge him to take a 'lie detector' test. Abetz was unavailable, so Liberal Party policies

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Had the royal touch "He came across very arrogant, like a total pompous git." — Comment made about Richard Butler, the recently resigned Queen's representative in Tasmania, quoted in the August 11 Sydney Daily Telegraph. Selfless "I was

Cam Walker, Melbourne They say a week's a long time in politics — but it's nothing compared to thirty years. Friends of the Earth Australia is turning 30. From modest beginnings, FoE International is now the world's largest grassroots