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  • Port Macquarie residents challenge hospital secrecy

    Port Macquarie residents challenge hospital secrecySYDNEY — The Hastings Hospital Action Group (HHAG) has lodged an appeal under the NSW Freedom of Information Act against the refusal by the NSW Department of Health

  • A conference for activists

    A conference for activistsYoung people from around the country will be attending the Resistance conference in Melbourne July 3-5. The chance to discuss problems such as the environment, sexism and racism with international

  • Gillespie charges dropped

    Charges against Bougainville human rights campaigner Rosemarie Gillespie have been dropped after the uproar following her arrest for possession of "restricted substances" — prescription drugs destined for Bougainville. The

  • $8 wage claim floundering

    $8 wage claim flounderingSYDNEY — A week after its announcement, the push for an $8 wage claim by a group of unions from the right wing of the NSW Trades and Labour Council is already faltering. The group had

  • Ewart appeal rejected

    Ewart appeal rejectedMELBOURNE — The appeal of Shannon Ewart was rejected by Judge Dyett the County Court on May 26. Ewart, arrested for writing graffiti on the South Melbourne police station, presented detailed

  • 24-hour stoppage by media workers

    24-hour stoppage by media workersADELAIDE — Workers from three unions involved in the production of the Advertiser, Adelaide's only daily, went out on a 24-hour stoppage on June 4 in response

  • Bank evicts farmer

    Bank evicts farmerADELAIDE — The South East Action Group staged a blockade of a fellow farmer's property on June 3 after Westpac bank foreclosed on the mortgage and moved to evict the farmer and family. The bank,

  • Meeting against technology park

    Meeting against technology parkSYDNEY — More than 100 people attended a public meeting in Alexandria on May 27 to oppose plans for an advanced technology park (ATP) on the old Eveleigh goods yard site in Redfern.

  • Loose cannons

    And deaf and blind "You would have to be naive in the extreme to believe that every member of a police force is totally incorruptible." — Queensland police commissioner Jim O'Sullivan, quoted in the Bulletin. Of course not "I'm not

  • World Environment Day celebrated around Australia

    World Environment Day was celebrated in cities across Australia June 5-6. The events, organised in most centres by the Environmental Youth Alliance under the theme "Environmental Justice for All", show that people are as

  • Keating proposal to minimise Mabo

    The Keating government's June 3 release of a cabinet discussion paper on legislation to deal with the Mabo case confirmed the bad impression created a week earlier by the government's support for Northern Territory legislation

  • WA workers begin a fight back

    PERTH — Angry workers under attack from the Court Liberal-National government have forced the WA Trades and Labor Council to call a 24-hour strike for June 17, the opening day of the WA parliament. About 1000