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  • ABM Plastics picket continues

    MELBOURNE — Workers and their supporters are continuing to picket the ABM Plastics factory in Braeside. The picket, which began on January 21, is aimed at forcing the company's owner, Abe Waisman, to pay $2.5 million in entitlements such as

  • Sartor out to remove Aboriginal housing

    Norman Brewer, Sydney "On the hottest day last month, the [NSW] minister responsible for Redfern, Frank Sartor, walked into the offices of the Aboriginal Housing Company [AHC] and dropped a bombshell: he didn't want any Aboriginal housing on the

  • WA Labor returned to government

    Chris Latham, Perth Geoff Gallop's state Labor government held onto power in the February 26 Western Australian election, albeit with a reduced parliamentary majority. While there are still a number of seats undecided, the ALP's majority in the

  • Liberals attack student rights at UNE

    Amy Irwin &Bea Bleile, Armidale After a misleading election campaign by yhe Young Liberals in last year's student elections, the University of New England Student Association electoral tribunal ruled that three Young Liberals breached the

  • Police arrests mar anti-war protest

    BRISBANE — Police arrested five people during a speak-out against the war in Iraq on the steps of King George Square on March 11. The weekly speak-out to oppose the decision by the Coalition government to send an additional 450 troops to Iraq

  • Walgett and Redfern communities mobilise

    SYDNEY — TJ Hickey, who died following a police chase in February 2004, should have celebrated his 19th birthday on March 9. A community rally in his family's home town of Walgett marked the occasion. This was followed by a rally of the Walgett

  • Hands off Timor's oil!

    MELBOURNE — Activists from the Timor Sea Justice Campaign drop a banner over the Eastern Freeway on March 7, displaying a message for the Australian government. Negotiations over the disputed oil and gas fields in the Timor Sea took place in

  • Loose cannons

    Neoliberal success story I "Most Latin American countries adopted far-reaching economic-overhaul agendas during the 1990s. These included selling off state-owned enterprises, sharply reducing tariffs, battling inflation with debt reduction and

  • Pilger: 'Protest on March 20!'

    Pip Hinman &Ben Edwards, Sydney "On March 20, millions of people will protest across the globe against the war in Iraq. It won't stop the war but it may, just may, deter them from pursuing the next part of their project — to attack Iran, or

  • Political protest returns to Mardi Gras

    Rachel Evans, Sydney One-hundred-and-fifty people joined the Community Action Against Homophobia (CAAH) contingent in the 27th annual Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade on March 5. The Socialist Alliance, the Canterbury Bankstown Gay and

  • 1000 march for women's rights

    Margaret Gleeson, Sydney On March 12, 1000 people rallied in opposition to the Coalition government's anti-women, anti-worker agenda, to mark International Women's Day. Women of all ages and backgrounds were united in calling for the immediate

  • Media treatment of Muslims criticised

    MELBOURNE — More than 150 people attended a lecture at Melbourne University by University of Technology Sydney journalism professor Peter Manning, on the treatment of Arabs and Muslims by the Australian media. Manning, who conducted a