BY ARUN PRADHAN
MELBOURNE — After 164 years of dispossession and colonisation, Yorta
Yorta people have entered a new chapter of their long search for justice
and land rights. On May 23, the High Court heard an appeal by the Yorta
Yorta
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BY SUE BULL
MELBOURNE — "The workers united will never be defeated", 300 unionists chanted, led by Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) national secretary John Maitland, on May 22. The event was a public meeting, titled "They
BY EVA CHENG
In Gujarat state, where since February Hindu fundamentalist violence has killed more than 2000 people, mostly Muslims, and terrorised many thousands more, the local government plans to force 100,000 Muslim refugees out of relief camps.
REVIEW BY
ELIZABETH TERZAKI
Since September 11, the media has dedicated itself to dishonesty
and spinelessness in its support of George Bush's “war on terrorism”.
Need some air? Then pick up a copy of Terrorism and War,
a collection
BY LYNDA HANSEN & JULIE WEBB-PULLMAN
BRISBANE — Latin American solidarity activists here have combined forces to launch a campaign to free five Cubans imprisoned in the United States on espionage charges.
The "Miami Five", as they have come to
BY JACKIE LYNCH
MELBOURNE — A joint meeting to explore the links between unionists and environmentalists was held on May 22. Jack Mundey, former NSW Builders Labourers Federation leader and environmental activist, addressed 70 people who were
BY KERRYN WILLIAMS
CANBERRA — More refugee-rights activists are getting involved in the organising of a June 23 protest. In addition to the Refugee Action Committee (RAC), the ACT Council of Churches, Community Aid Abroad, Amnesty International,
BY IGGY KIM
SYDNEY — "If it wasn't for the Tampa, we'd have a Labor government today", former NSW premier Neville Wran told a May 23 Labor for Refugees forum which heard calls for an end to the government's present policy towards asylum seekers.
BY BILL MASON
BRISBANE — Construction and maintenance workers employed by the Queensland government public works corporation Q-Build marched through city streets on May 21 to protest low wages and inequities in superannuation and working
BY NICK EVERETT
SYDNEY — Activists representing the Wilderness Society, the Palestine Human Rights Campaign, the Democratic Socialist Party, the International Socialist Organisation, the NSW Greens and the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union
BY CHRIS SLEE
The Australian Taxation Office's insistence that staff must meet "corporate indicators" before receiving a pay rise will likely be a hot issue in negotiations on a new certified agreement for the agency.
At a May 16-19 meeting of
'Peace for the world - pretzels for Bush'
A crowd of 50,000-70,000 rallied on May 21 in Berlin against George
Bush's phony “war on terror”, preparing to give the US president a not
so much warm as heated “welcome” to the city when he arrived
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