Robyn Marshall, Brisbane
The Liquor, Hospitality, and Miscellaneous Workers Union is taking an equity case to the industrial court to improve wages and conditions for childcare workers.
The childcare industry is dominated by women workers, and
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Amanda Zivcic, Wollongong Wollongong Resistance and Illawarra Socialist Alliance have embarked on a joint campaign to lower the voting age to 16. Raffaele Fantasia, a year-11 student at Edmund Rice College, told Green Left Weekly: "Young people
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Lily Wright, Sydney On August 25, a meeting of National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) members employed at the University of NSW condemned UNSW's August 23 announcement that it would shed up to 500 administrative and support staff jobs, and decided
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Kylie Moon & Stuart Munckton, Sydney On February 14, Thomas "TJ" Hickey, a 17-year-old Indigenous man, was flung from his bike and impaled on a metal fence in the inner-city suburb of Waterloo. He died early the next morning in hospital. Redfern
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DARWIN — A Timor Sea Justice Campaign public meeting and video night on July 21 heard the latest developments in the campaign to stop the Australian government's theft of East Timor's oil and gas resources. Solidarity activist Robyn Waite, who
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Colin Mitchell, Melbourne About 60 people joined a protest ride on August 20 to Barwon prison, near Geelong, where 13 Muslim men, known as the "Melbourne 13", are being held. The men were arrested in highly sensationalised raids last November,
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Student organisations and activist groups have decided to mobilise as many young people as possible on March 20, to protest the occupation of Iraq. The National Union of Students is supporting the protests, and will produce a poster advertising the
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Alex Milne, Melbourne The 2004 Students of Sustainability conference was held at La Trobe University on July 11-14. Around 500 environmentalists and other activists, from interstate and overseas, attended. As always, there was an impressive
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Pip Hinman The Environment Centre Northern Territory (ECNT) described the NT government's decision on August 29 to approve an environmental assessment for a controversial open-cut zinc mine on the McArthur River as a "big mistake". The Swiss-based
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New Zealand resettles more refugees On January 27, the New Zealand government announced that it would resettle on humanitarian grounds 20 asylum seekers held in the Australian-funded detention centre on Nauru. The asylum seekers have not been
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SYDNEY — The Aboriginal tent embassy at Victoria Park will hold a 'Corroboree for Sovereignty 2004' from July 14. For information visit http://active.org.au/sydney.From Green Left Weekly, July 14, 2004. Visit the Green Left Weekly home page.
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SYDNEY — "The greatest obstacle to peace in the Middle East is US policy." That's how Dr Bouthaina Shaaban, Syria's minister for expatriates, framed her lecture to 150 people at the University of Western Sydney's Bankstown campus on September 7.