SYDNEY — Around 120 people gathered at the Metcalf Auditorium, in the NSW State Library, on October 17 for a memorial meeting for the highly influential Palestinian intellectual and activist Edward Said. Said died in the US on
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SYDNEY — Members of the NSW branches of the Socialist Alliance will meet on November 8 for the alliance's NSW conference. Its theme is "Regime change begins at home: unite for socialism!". Socialist Alliance NSW committee member
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Howard hanged SYDNEY — On October 9, students at University of Western Sydney-Bankstown "hanged" Prime Minister John Howard! Students found Howard guilty of attacking trade unions, the inhumane treatment of refugees, attacking and
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The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) has called a national strike for October 16 in protest against the federal Coalition government's proposed changes to staff conditions on universities. Liz Thompson, the national
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GEELONG — After five months of being locked out of their workplace with no pay, workers at the Geelong Wool Combing factory have been sacked. On September 23, the GWC board decided to close the plant on October 1, leaving 115
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CANBERRA — In a phone interview with Green Left Weekly on October 8, federal Labor MP Harry Quick, known for his strong opposition to the Iraq war, indicated he was thinking of wearing a white armband to protest the US
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LAUNCESTON — On October 1, the Tasmanian Industrial Commission reinstated 17 workers who had been locked out of the Blue Ribbon meatworks for 182 days and ordered they be paid for wages lost as a result of the lockout. In her
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ADELAIDE — Women gathered in the Women's Pioneer Memorial Gardens on October 8 to launch this year's poster for the annual Reclaim the Night march, to be held on October 31. Local artist and Reclaim the Night collective member
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SYDNEY — Will Saunders and David Burgess, the protesters who painted "No war" on the Sydney Opera House on March 18, at the beginning of the Iraq War, were convicted of malicious damage on October 2. The act achieved prominent media
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MELBOURNE — After taking strike action for the first time in more than 10 years, 500 workers employed by the Swedish-owned auto components company Autoliv have won major concessions from the company. The mostly female and mostly
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On October 4, 200 people crammed into Albany's Senior Citizens Hall, to support Albany's Hazara Afghan refugees and to show public opposition to deporting the Afghans who have made Albany home for three to four years. No
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SYDNEY — In protest against federal government intervention into their enterprise bargaining agreement (EBA), Sydney University staff held a 24-hour strike on October 7. Four-hundred people picketed the entrances to the campus