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BRISBANE — "The prison system is racist and sexist, and we need to openly challenge it", Debbie Kilroy, director of the women prisoners support group Sisters Inside, told a public forum at the New Farm Neighbourhood Centre on September 10. The

Would your organisation, class or workplace like to experience an eyewitness presentation of Venezuela's revolutionary transformation? Participants in the first Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Brigade are now available to visit you! Email

Pip Hinman, Sydney Labor won all three NSW parliamentary by-elections on September 17, but with swings against new Premier Morris Iemma's government of 4-12%. In Marrickville, the Greens scored their highest vote ever for a lower house seat,

DARWIN — The Charles Darwin University Students' Union has been hit with a pre-emptive strike from the university management as it tries to beat PM John Howard to the punch in starving the student union of funds. The university administration is

SYDNEY — On September 16, the socialist youth organisation Resistance initiated a speak-out against PM John Howard's proposed industrial relations reforms. Speakers at the protest, outside McDonald's at Circular Quay, highlighted the damaging

Helen Masterman-Smith, Adelaide A large crowd gathered at the Adelaide Town Hall on September 2 to hear speakers on the impact on women of the Howard government's planned welfare and workplace changes. Elspeth McInnes of the National Council of

Susan Price, Sydney Melanie Reardon, a salesperson at a Harvey Norman store in Liverpool, was sacked on August 19 when she challenged the roster conditions of her new individual contract (Australian Workplace Agreement — AWA). Reardon, who is the

Ben Courtice, Melbourne The Socialist Alliance will run candidates in two wards for the November 26 Maribyrnong City Council elections — George Papanastasiou for Sheoak ward and Jorge Jorquera in Ironbark ward. The Socialist Alliance has two

Bill Mason, Brisbane Staff in the Queensland public health system have launched a campaign for a new enterprise agreement. The current agreement expired on August 31. The Queensland Public Sector Union is holding a series of stop-work meetings to

Eyewitness reports on the revolution rapidly unfolding in Venezuela were presented to public meetings around Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Hobart last week. The report-backs, organised by the socialist youth organisation Resistance, featured activists

Call to protest Rice-Rumsfeld visit Emma Murphy, Adelaide The Rice/Rumsfeld Reception Committee (RRRC) has begun organising around the possibility of the inaugural meeting of the Asia Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate being

Tim Stewart, Canberra "We used to have freedom to fish and to swim in our lagoon, but now we have freedom no more", Yat Paol, a visiting activist from Papua New Guinea, told a September 9 forum organised by Aid/Watch and hosted by Greens ACT