SYDNEY 鈥 More than 50 people joined the Socialist Alliance contingent in the Mardi Gras parade on March 3, chanting 鈥淲hat do we want? Marriage rights! When do we want it? Now!鈥 For more photos visit .
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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.
@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.
The situation remains tense in East Timor聮s capital, Dili, in the wake of the Australian Defence Force-led operation on March 4 to capture renegade East Timorese army officer Major Alfredo Reinado.
International Women聮s Day (IWD) 聴 March 8 聴 was marked by marches protesting the recent acquittal of former assistant police commissioner Clint Rickards and two other former police officers on charges of rape.
A tiny group dominates Australian politics and Labor leader Kevin Rudd recently met them. He knows very well that the key to Labor聮s electoral success later this year is an accommodation with the Australian oligarchy.
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.
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.
Several NSW unions have decided to endorse the March 17 Sydney rally against the war in Iraq, organised by the Stop the War Coalition. They are the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA); the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union; the NSW Fire Brigade Employees Union; and the National Tertiary Education Union.
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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