Pickets
Contact your local Trades and Labour Council or union if you want to be on the picket roster. Your local Democratic Socialist Party or Resistance branch also has relevant details.
Demonstrations, meetings and forums
Darwin: John Coombs
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By Zanny Begg
The final report of the federal government's review of higher education was released on April 17. The review committee, chaired by Roderick West, was launched last year to recommend policy options for the next 20 years. The final
Historic conference begins new era in left cooperation
By Max Lane
SYDNEY — More than 750 people participated in a historic event, the first Asia Pacific Solidarity Conference, held here April 10-13. The conference was characterised by an
By Norm Dixon
At least 51 Acehnese refugees have been murdered by Malaysian and Indonesian forces since March 25. News of the terrible atrocities, which have been ignored by the Australian mass media, was revealed by representatives of the Aceh
On the picket line
SYDNEY — Since April 8, hundreds of MUA supporters have turned back trucks, trains and efforts by the police to remove them from Patrick Stevedores' Port Botany terminal. Green Left Weekly's TESSHA MEARING spoke to SIMON FREW,
By Sean Healy
The crackdown against student protest by the Suharto regime in Indonesia requires a loud and clear show of solidarity by students in Australia. Suharto sees the current campus upsurge in Indonesia, and the students' commitment to
On the box
Actively Radical TV — Sydney community television's progressive current affairs producers tackle the hard issues from the activist's point of view. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Thursday, 10pm and Saturday, 7pm. Ph 9565 5522.
Access
By Kerry Vernon
NEWCASTLE — An angry, 500-strong rally greeted PM John Howard when he arrived at a civic reception in Maitland Town Hall on April 17. Howard's speech at the opening of the East Maitland electorate office of Liberal member for
Asia Pacific Women's Solidarity Network launched
By Pip Hinman
SYDNEY — The Asia Pacific Women's Solidarity Network (APWSN) has held its first meeting to help progressive women in the region cement their links. The meeting was attended by women
NFF to reform higher education
By John Tomlinson
Today, Ms Ima Mug, spokesperson for the Anti-vice Chancellors' Committee for Furthering Managerialism and Economic Bloody Mindedness, welcomed what she called the "magnificent offer by Mr Dullard
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