Sarah Stephen, Sydney
The Refugee Action Coalition held a protest outside the immigration department's offices on February 10 to call for an end to mandatory detention in light of the Cornelia Rau scandal.
RAC activist Ian Rintoul condemned the
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Graham Williams, Melbourne Workers formerly employed at ABM Plastics have been picketing the plant since January 21 in an attempt to force company owner Abe Waisman to pay them $2.5 million in redundancy entitlements. ABM Plastics went into
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BRISBANE — The new wave of struggle for Aboriginal rights in Australia that began in the 1960s was launched by the Freedom Ride led by Charlie Perkins in February 1965, Murri activist Sam Watson told a solidarity night at the Jagera Centre,
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Selena Black, Sydney On February 11, hundreds of building workers were sacked in Sydney and Queensland by the collapsed company Walter Construction Group. Walter went into receivership on February 1 and many more of its 1000 employees are likely
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PERTH — On January 11, around 30 people gathered outside the ANZ bank in the Murray Street Mall for a speakout against the bank's profiting from the war in Iraq. The protest was called by Resistance to highlight the true nature of the US-led
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Selena Black, Sydney On February 8, federal police conducted an early morning raid on a refugee supporter's house, taking notebooks, computers and documents. This followed similar raids on December 1, after which four people were summonsed to
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James Vassilopoulos, Melbourne Eighty members of the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) employed at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology decided on February 8 to continue work bans in pursuit of a new enterprise bargaining agreement.
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Sue Bolton, Melbourne On February 2, 40 members and officials from 10 unions in Victoria founded the Defend the Unions Committee to coordinate resistance to the federal Coalition government's planned attack on union rights — its industrial
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Embargo, what embargo? "US oilfield services company Halliburton Co. will pull out of Iran after its current contracts there are wound down, its chief executive said Friday, citing a poor business climate in the Islamic Republic... Halliburton said
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SYDNEY — On February 12, exactly 40 years after the legendary 1965 Freedom Ride, 200 supporters farewelled the Freedom Ride 2005 bus as it departed from Sydney University to follow the original route. After a welcome to Gadigal Land of the Eora
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Michelle Brear, Sydney The coronial inquest into the death of Thomas "TJ" Hickey was a "whitewash", Ray Jackson, president of the Indigenous Social Justice Association (ISJA), told the 150-strong crowd that packed Redfern Town Hall on February 8.
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MELBOURNE — On February 10, Jack Thomas, who is facing charges under "anti-terrorism" laws, appealed the decision not to grant him bail. Under the "anti-terrorism" laws, suspects may not be granted bail unless there are exceptional mitigating