Bougainville awareness weekSYDNEY — A picket organised by the Bougainville Freedom movement was held on July 23 outside the Australian Regional Defence building in Liverpool St.
About 30 people distributed leaflets
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People to People Conference Activists from a range of grassroots and community organisations in Papua New Guinea and Indonesia will visit Australia in August to attend a People to People Conference between Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and
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CANBERRA — "When I used to live in the USA, I was an activist against the war in Vietnam. Now I'm living in Australia, I find myself compelled to be an activist against 'Australia's Vietnam', Bougainville." Barbara
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ACTU retreats on aid to phoney union The ACTU appears to have been forced to retreat on plans for a large scale program of cooperation with the Suharto regime's puppet trade union, the SPSI. Several weeks after publication in Solidarity
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International green left meeting setAfter the very successful 1990 and 1991 Socialist Scholars Conferences, plans are now under way to hold an International Green Left Conference in 1994. The gathering will be in Sydney
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BRISBANE — Organisers of this year's Network of Women Students Australia (NOWSA) conference in Brisbane expected 250 women, but 500 arrived — double the number who attended NOWSA '92 in Adelaide. Many
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WA compensation campaignPERTH — Unions here have endorsed a proposal to organise protests culminating in a rally on August 19 in response to state government changes to workers compensation. TLC assistant
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Persuasion "Charm, persuasion, the telephone and supplies of Scotch." — A British government source listing the tools available to ensure a desired vote from hereditary members of the House of Lords. (The government later won the vote.)
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SYDNEY — A mass meeting of cleaners from the NSW Cleaning Service (a state government department), on a 24-hour strike, filled the Sydney Town Hall to capacity on July 16. Numerous simultaneous meetings in country centres
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Rally for peace in Bosnia Story and photo by Jon Lamb SYDNEY — More than 800 people rallied and marched here on July 17 to protest against the continuing acts of violence and aggression towards women and children in
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Community protests killing of SomalisMELBOURNE — "We are demonstrating to show Australian people and the international community how angry and upset we are with the continual killings of Somalians by the UN troops in
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WA rail jobs to be cutPERTH — Westrail announced on July 13 that a further 460 jobs will be cut, in addition to the 750 to be lost with the planned closure of the Midland railway workshops. The 460 jobs will be