Holding placards stating “Save the pool” and “Uniting Care doesn’t care”, hydrotherapy patients, many of them elderly people and in wheelchairs, gathered outside Uniting Care Health in Rosalie on May 17 to oppose the proposed closure of the Wesley Hydrotherapy Centre.
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On May 8, 150 unionists rallied outside the NSW parliament to protest against the move by the John Holland construction company to abandon the NSW workers compensation scheme in favour of the federal governments Comcare.
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Two blockades halted logging in high conservation value native forests two hours east of Melbourne on May 8, Friends of the Earth reported.
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The proposed Anvil Hill coalmine in NSW is rapidly becoming a central battleground in the fight against climate change.
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Students across NSW are getting organised for a Stop Bush! Stop Howard! student conference on June 1 aimed at building the protests when the US president comes to Sydney for APEC in September.
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On May 10, 60 people attended a public meeting opposing the closure of the humanities department of the Queensland University of Technology. The meeting was held at QUT’s Kelvin Grove campus.
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Well-known left-wing academic Dr Gary MacLennan and his Queensland University of Technology colleague John Hookham are facing possible suspension or dismissal without pay on charges of straight misconduct over their public criticism of a PhD project approved of by the QUT ethics committee.
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The federal budget includes a multi-million package of extra spending on "security" during coming years, according to media releases from the attorney-general's department.
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The proposed Anvil Hill coalmine in NSW is rapidly becoming a central battleground in the fight against climate change.
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An industrial relations forum on May 8, hosted by the Socialist Alliance, brought together trade union and political activists to discuss their responses to the ALPs recently released IR policy and the campaign against Work Choices.
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On May 3, Adelaide lost one of its strongest defenders of human and Indigenous rights with the death of Aunty Veronica Brodie, a widely respected and loved elder of the Kaurna and Ngarrindjeri peoples of South Australia. On May 11, more than 500 people attempted to crowd into the small Centennial Park Cemetery chapel to farewell her. To accommodate the hundreds of people who had travelled from around Australia to pay their respects, chapel staff took the remarkable decision to broadcast the commemorative service over the PA throughout the foyer and hallways.
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From the end of May to July 2, the largest military training exercise in Australian history will take place, involving 14,000 US and 12,000 Australian military personnel. The Talisman Sabre 07 war games will be held at joint US-Australian training facilities Shoalwater Bay in Queensland and Bradshaw and Delamere Range in the Northern Territory.