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Tas log hauliers fight APPMHOBART — Three log trucks are parked outside state parliament in a protest by log hauliers in the wake of the Burnie paper mill dispute. Log truck drivers and owners from

Publication schedule Because many of the people involved in the production and distribution of Green Left will be attending the Resistance conference in Melbourne, we are not publishing a paper next week. The next issue will be the one dated July

Children's exhibition launchedBRISBANE — Residents here have been the first to view a national exhibition of drawings by refugee children from Croatia, Bosnia-Hercegovina and the Nagyatad refugee camp in Hungary. The 250

ACT women score abortion rights victory CANBERRA — On June 23, the ACT Legislative Assembly voted by 10 to 7 to repeal 1978 legislation banning the establishment of a free-standing abortion clinic in the territory. An estimated 2000 women

PERTH — A two-week strike by 2200 Pilbara mineworkers is likely to spread to other workplaces of Hamersley Iron parent company CRA. The strike, against the employment of a non-unionist at the Tom Price mine, has cost the

MELBOURNE — As Premier Joan Kirner held her mini-summit on youth unemployment on June 25, a crowd of around 200 people demonstrated on the steps of the state parliament. The rally, organised by an umbrella group called CRICIS

Top secret "One doesn't feel that the right place for Miss Percy is in prison, but there is a limit and she is at the end of our tether." — British magistrate L.P. Stephen imposing a six-month suspended sentence on Lindis Percy, a peace

Rochedale dump 'legal'BRISBANE — "We will never give up trying to stop the dump. We won't give up until we've at least we've got a wider buffer zone", Glenys Head, spokesperson for Rochedale residents fighting a proposed

Federal Police broke the law by handing over a list of 238 protesters arrested at the November 1991 Aidex armaments exhibition in Canberra, says a report to federal parliament by Human Rights Commission privacy commissioner

MELBOURNE — About 50 tramway workers and supporters protested outside the Age building on June 19 over a story in the June 14 Sunday Age headlined, "If you drink and drive, you're a bloody tram driver". An accompanying photo purported to show a

Victoria to trial 'training' schemeMELBOURNE — In response to a 46% youth unemployment rate, the state Labor government has announced that it will pilot a controversial youth training scheme. Critics say it will

Liberals' BWIU ban illegalSYDNEY — In another blow to the accident-prone Greiner government, some aspects of its ban on government departments dealing with the Building Workers Industrial Union have been ruled illegal by