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  • More West Papua protests planned

    Lisa Macdonald Groups affiliated with the Australia West Papua Association will protest outside Rio Tinto's AGM in Melbourne on May 4 to highlight the company's involvement in corruption, human rights abuses and environmental destruction in West

  • Camp Sovereignty's sacred flame still burning

    Tony Iltis, Melbourne Despite threats by local and state governments, court injunctions and a racist propaganda campaign by the Herald-Sun and the Returned Servicemen's League (RSL), Indigenous activists remain at "Camp Sovereignty" on the Kings

  • Legal centre hits police racism

    Ben Courtice, Melbourne On March 17, the Flemington and Kensington Community Legal Centre lodged its fifth official complaint with the Office of Police Integrity about unlawful police behaviour in the Flemington area. The complaints contain reports

  • Villawood convergence

    Sarah Stephen & Farida Iqbal, Sydney Around 100 refugee-rights supporters from around the country converged on Villawood detention centre on the Easter weekend to highlight the human rights abuses taking place behind the barbed wire. There are 255

  • More terrorism laws in Victoria

    A bill will be debated in the Victorian parliament on May 2 that gives the state new "anti-terrorism" powers, reduces the scope of freedom of information and could exempt some documents from public release for longer than the current 30-year limit,

  • Taking to the streets against VSU

    Fred Fuentes & Amber Pike "If the French can do it, we can too. We're going to fight to stop VSU!" This popular chant at a march in Melbourne on April 12 summed up protesters' feelings about the federal government's "voluntary student unionism"

  • NSW delegates' meetings called

    SYDNEY — At the April 20 Unions NSW meeting, assistant secretary Mark Lennon reported that affiliates had agreed to organise local mass delegates' meetings in the week beginning May 15. The meetings will discuss what course of action will take

  • Eight arrested at goldmine protest

    Natalie Lowrey Over the weekend of April 14-17, 120 people participated in the Rain Corroboree in support of the Wiradjuri traditional owners' fight to protect Lake Cowal in central-western NSW from contamination by cyanide, which is used by mining

  • Don't take abuse

    SYDNEY — A new multilingual booklet for victims of domestic violence titled Helping You Go to Court to Get an Apprehended Domestic Violence Order was launched this month by Legal Aid at Marrickville. It explains in 15 languages how to get an order

  • Reclaim the streets

    SYDNEY — The Shitty Rail Tranny Cop Dance Troupe in a satirical protest against over-policing was part of a Reclaim the Streets action on April 9. The protest targeted the NSW government's embarrassing cross-city tunnel fiasco.From Green Left

  • Reprieve for Qantas workers

    MELBOURNE — On April 14, the Australian Industrial Relations Commission (AIRC) ordered Qantas to try to stop 480 workers employed at the airline's Sydney maintenance centre from losing their jobs as a result of the company's push to move its Boeing

  • 'Leave the Iraqis alone!'

    Dave Riley, Brisbane Four-hundred anti-war activists — mostly young people — gathered on March 18 to protest the continuing occupation of Iraq. "Bring the troops home" was the main theme hammered home from a speaking platform that included