Across Australia, people are planning to travel to Canberra to protest against US President George Bush's visit to Australia, likely to be in the few days after October 21. Solidarity protests are also being planned in a number of cities. Planned so
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PERTH — A lunch-time mass meeting of 1000 public service employees on September 17 voted to begin an industrial campaign in support of better pay and conditions after Premier Geoff Gallop government's refusal of anything
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Stuck with old script "If we're successful in Iraq . . . then we will have struck a major blow right at the heart of ... the geographic base of the terrorists who had us under assault now for many years, but most especially on 9/11." — US
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PERTH — At its meeting on September 18 the Perth No War Alliance decided to change its planned October 25 protest, in order to hold a protest coinciding with the visit to Australia of US President George Bush. The new
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Forum marks Chile coup BRISBANE — On September 11, 100 people attended a "People's Forum" to mark the 30th anniversary of the military coup which overthrew left-wing Chilean president Salvador Allende. Greetings were given to the gathering by
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SYDNEY — David Hicks, who has been held at the US military base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba for almost two years. His father, Terry, told 130 people attending a public meeting at the Trades Hall Auditorium on September 20 that he
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Mootaz Attia, known in Australia as Abu Quassey, a self-proclaimed people smuggler of Egyptian nationality, went on trial in Egypt on September 13 for the manslaughter of 353 people on the boat now known as SIEV-X ("suspected
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MELBOURNE — Across Australia, 100,000 teachers poured out of their schools throughout Australia on September 17 in the biggest teacher action that has ever taken place in this country, and the biggest single-profession national strike
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SYDNEY — More than 800 schools were shut down in NSW on September 17. The 24-hour strike also closed colleges and TAFEs across NSW, as tens of thousands of primary, secondary, TAFE and trainee teachers took part. The industrial
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MELBOURNE — Plans to give US President George Bush the welcome he deserves are well underway in Melbourne. An ad hoc committee to organise against Bush's visit to Australia was formed on September 20. A mix of peace
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PERTH — Eight thousand members of the Australian Education Union (AEU) attended a vibrant stop work meeting at Subiaco Oval on September 17, as part of a half-day stoppage to win a 30% pay rise over the next three years. Hundreds
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US President George Bush has announced he will be visiting Australia — probably Canberra and Sydney — immediately following the October 21 APEC forum in Bangkok, Thailand. Within days of the announcement, activists have begun