A ban on political content took place during the March 1 orientation day at Charles Sturt University in Bathurst, rural NSW. The Student Representative Council (SRC) fought this censorship and successfully negotiated with university management to hold a 鈥減olitical market day鈥 forum the following week.
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@9point non = CAIRNS 聴 The Time聮s Up campaign, seeking to throw out the Howard government and its anti-worker laws, held a rally and public meeting on March 5. More than 80 people protested at the office of federal Liberal MP Warren Entsch, while that evening 30 people heard from Andrew Dettmer, state secretary of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union; Michael Ravbar, the state secretary of the construction division of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union; and Peter Simpson, assistant state secretary of the Electrical Trades Union.
On March 7, 60 people joined with three 聯comfort women聰 survivors 聴 Jan Ruff O聮Herne AO, Hsie Mei Wu and Gil Won Ok, from Australia, Taiwan and Korea 聴 outside the Japanese Consulate in Martin Place.
With global warming increasingly dominating mainstream political discussion, the debate about solutions has intensified. While PM John Howard has thrown his weight behind the lie of 鈥渃lean, green鈥 nuclear power, the ALP has maintained its opposition to this deeply unpopular option.
One of Resistance聮s main campaigns is to strengthen the movement across Australia to end the occupation of Iraq. As well as building the biggest possible protests on March 17-18, the fourth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, we are helping to organise contingents from around the country to join the mass convergence in Sydney when US President George Bush comes to the APEC meeting in September.
Becoming socially aware in Townsville, a city of One Nation voters, was not ideal. It was politically isolating and hard to find information that shed any light on the pressing questions on my mind: why is the world so screwed up and how is this sustainable?
The reason for the existence of the Redfern-Waterloo Authority (RWA) can be summed up in just two words: corporate greed.
In an out-of-court settlement, which became public on March 4, Victorian Labor Premier Steve Bracks鈥 government agreed to pay compensation to 47 protesters injured at the 鈥淪11" blockade of the World Economic Forum in Melbourne in September 2000. The settlement awards $700,000 in compensation, although $600,000 will go to legal fees.
In 麻豆传媒 Weekly #693, we published an article broadly in favour of George Monbiot鈥檚 call for carbon rationing. Below, Gar Lipow critiques this as a strategy for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
A satirical website created by climate action group Rising Tide Newcastle (RTN) has twice been shut down by the powerful coal industry lobby group, the NSW Minerals Council.
The Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) voted to affiliate to the ALP at the union鈥檚 March 2-4 national governing council meeting. The enabling motion, heavily amended during the course of the meeting, passed by 42 votes to 12.
Women's day
Happy Women's Day, health minister Abbott. Just a reminder that undermining the independent choices of women has alienated nearly half the voting population. And, as a parent of an autistic child, whose expensive therapy is not
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