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Rally marks Hiroshima Day
BRISBANE — Two-hundred people gathered in King George Square on August 6 to mark the anniversary of the US nuclear bombing of Hiroshima in 1945. The rally was followed by a candlelight procession on the theme "Lighting a flame for nuclear disarmament".
Ciaron O'Reilly, long-time anti-war activist and member of Catholic Worker, spoke against the US-led war in Iraq and the Australian government's support for the ongoing US war drive. O'Reilly currently faces serious charges in Ireland for disarming a US war plane at Shannon airport, Dublin.
Damien Le Goullon denounced the Indonesian government's oppression of the people of West Papua and Denis Doherty from the Anti-Bases Coalition announced plans to form an anti-bases coalition in Queensland, in opposition to the proposed US base at Shoalwater Bay.
Demonstrations took place in other cities around the country, including a "Hiroshima never again" rally attended by 100 people in Sydney.
Bill Mason
Women's collective to be abolished
BRISBANE — The women's collective at Griffith University will be abolished under changes to the constitution proposed by the Labor-Right-dominated Student Representative Council (SRC). The changes will be decided by an internet-based referendum.
If passed, the new constitution will replace the women's and environment collectives with a new Equity Committee, consisting of a disability officer, an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander officer, a queer officer, and an overseas students officer. It will also include a male and a female equity officer, replacing the women's collective.
The Equity Committee will only receive 5% of the SRC budget, and each officer will be allocated just 5% of that amount. The autonomy currently enjoyed by collectives will be removed, as they will have to seek approval from the entire committee for any funding requests.
Domenic Natoli
From Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly, August 11, 2004.
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