Kamala Emanuel, Hobart
"No police state" and "No to Howard's terror laws" were the mobilising slogans of a civil liberties rally held on November 12 and attended by 800 people.
Organised by the Tasmanian Council of Civil Liberties, the rally was
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Amendment to TerrorWritten by Kevin SummersDirected by Bec RussellStarring Fabienne Parr, Nigel Johnston, Matthew Molony, Felicity Soper & Christopher ElliottLa Mama, Carlton Courthouse, MelbourneWednesday-Saturday, November 30-December 17Email
My first demonstration was an anti-Vietnam war march, but this one [on November 15] was the biggest I've ever seen. It wasn't just a union rally, it was a community rally. It reminded me of the 1970s before [former Labor Prime Minister Gough] Whitlam
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Graham Matthews
"We're very, very pleased at the turn out. You don't get those sorts of numbers unless there is a really deep concern in the community about what the government is proposing to do", George Wright, ACTU policy and communications
"The mood was excellent, and there's a much greater understanding out there about the issues than some people think. We need to put more industrial pressure on, have more demonstrations like this one, ongoing action to hit the bosses and the members
Doug Lorimer
The Australia West Papua Association (AWPA) has called on the Australian government to follow the Dutch government's example and commission a study into Australia's involvement in the 1969 UN-organised "act of free choice" in West
"November 15 revealed just how deep the concern about the government's anti-union laws is — not only among workers, but also among young people, the unemployed, pensioners and people on welfare. Millions are scared of what the Australian workplace
Margarita Windisch, Caracas
Three months after the takeover of the local metropolitan police station by the poor community of 23 Enero, in the west of Caracas, the place is as busy as a beehive. The Coordinadora Simon Bolivar (CSB), a militant
Graham Matthews
Sun Xiaodi, a former miner at the Gansu No. 72 Uranium Mine in Chinese-controlled Tibet, remains "missing" over six months after he was abducted, following an interview with an AFP journalist in Beijing on April 28. Sun had
The tremendous display, on November 15-16, of mass opposition to the Howard government's attacks on workers and trade unions showed the deep desire of working people across the country to resist — and stop — the Coalition's attacks.
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Christine Rau
I wasn't involved in the asylum seeker debate in 2001 when the government's actions on Tampa were, in their opinion, decisive in getting them re-elected. It was an accident of circumstance that my family was given a voice this past
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