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• Darwin's raging success

  Darwin's raging successDARWIN — Around 350 people "raged against racism" here on March 25, and raised $1880 for 91������̳ Weekly in the process. The event was the fifth Rage against Racism in Darwin and the largest so far. The
• Workers First challenges national leadership

  MELBOURNE — The militant Workers First team's election campaign in the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union for the positions of national and state secretaries and for one metal division organiser in Victoria is under way. The
• Action updates

  Seattle should happen here SYDNEY — The large protests against the World Trade Organisation in Seattle in December can and should be replicated in this country, more than 100 people at a Politics in the Pub forum on March 31 were told. A
• Liberals wiped in Brisbane election

  Liberals wiped in Brisbane electionBRISBANE — The Labor administration of mayor Jim Soorley swept to victory in the Brisbane City Council election held on March 25. Soorley gained 56% of the primary vote; Liberal candidate Gail
• Indonesian students demand: No cuts to education subsidies!

  Indonesian students demand: No cuts to education subsidies!On April 1, Indonesian students involved in the National Student League for Democracy (LMND) participated in a national mobilisation in Jakarta demanding that the
• TransAdelaide workers fight back

  ADELAIDE — TransAdelaide rail maintenance workers are the latest casualties of the South Australian Liberal government's privatisation steam train. As the April 23 deadline for the privatisation of TransAdelaide's bus services
• Olympics causing housing crisis

  SYDNEY — Despite constant denials by the NSW Labor government, the Olympic Games are having a serious impact on housing in Sydney, an information kit launched on March 29 by the tenancy advocates Rentwatchers says. Sixty people
• BHP, Rio Tinto, cyanide spills: Australian companies' eco-terrorism

  Cyanide spills by Australian-owned overseas goldmining operations in January and March are further evidence of the fact that Australian companies are systematically abusing the environments of poorer countries, which are forced to
• Students rally to improve campus conditions

  SYDNEY — Three hundred students rallied at the University of Sydney on March 30, one week after students occupied the Student Centre on a March 22 national day of action against the privatisation of education. The rally is part
• Newcastle students to strike

  Newcastle students to strikeNEWCASTLE — Resistance members at high schools and the university here plan to walk out of class on Friday, April 14 to protest against mandatory sentencing. An overwhelming response from their
• Defence of Telstra fires up

  GEELONG — Five hundred members of the Communication, Electrical and Plumbing Union (CEPU) marched into the Melbourne headquarters of Telstra on March 30 and occupied its ground floor to protest against the company's job-shedding
• Messages on GLW's 400th issue

  The Central Leadership Committee of the People's Democratic Party (PRD) of Indonesia and the branches of PRD receive 91������̳ Weekly every week. Many PRD leaders have read GLW since early of 1990s. GLW is very important for us because it
• Murdoch University staff strike back

  Murdoch University staff strike backPERTH — Academics and general staff at Murdoch University here passed a motion of no confidence in the university's vice-chancellor, Steven Schwartz, at a March 24 meeting attended by more
• Solidarity with Cuba planned

  Solidarity with Cuba plannedALBURY — Supporters of Cuba were asked to concentrate their energies on political solidarity with the socialist Caribbean nation at a national conference here on March 24-26. Eva Seoane, the
• Rally demands debt be dropped

  Rally demands debt be droppedSYDNEY — Four hundred people rallied in Hyde Park on April 1 to demand the cancellation of all debts held by the world's poorest nations. The rally was part of an international day of protest called
• Anti-racist initiatives launched

  Anti-racist initiatives launchedMELBOURNE — Anti-racist activists here hope to build on an AC Nielson March 28 poll which indicated that Victorians are more likely to disagree with mandatory sentencing and reject One Nation than
• Closer to 36-hour week

  MELBOURNE — The Construction, Forestry, Mining, Energy Union (CFMEU) appears close to a 36-hour week agreement with construction corporation Multiplex in Victoria. The union put bans on Multiplex on March 30 after the company
• 'Not old and not sick'

  'Not old and not sick'HOBART — "I want to choose the people I live with" was one of the more popular placards at an April 1 rally here demanding housing rights for people with brain injuries and other neurological
• Catholic teachers march on church and state

  Catholic teachers march on church and stateSYDNEY — Three thousand primary and secondary school teachers at NSW Catholic schools struck for 24 hours and rallied here on March 29 against Catholic employment authorities' failure to
• Protests against forest agreements

  Protests against forest agreements Environmentalists staged protests across the country on March 31 against the failure of regional forest agreements (RFAs) to protect old-growth forests from logging. In Melbourne, conservationists condemned Steve
• Southern Cross uni staff to take action

  Southern Cross uni staff to take actionLISMORE — Southern Cross University (SCU) members of the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) and National Tertiary Education Industry Union (NTEU) voted unanimously at a combined mass
• Capitalism and the environment

  Destruction Over the past 100 years the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide (caused by land-clearing and industrial emissions) has increased by 25%. Between 1950 and 1997 the global average sea surface temperature rose from 18.86oC to
• News briefs

  ACI gets injunction MELBOURNE — Manufacturing company ACI has obtained a court injunction to prevent locked-out workers from its Box Hill plant from picketing its customers. The workers had picketed Carlton and United Breweries and Kraft Foods,
• Aboriginal leader fined for protest

  ADELAIDE — Arabunna elder and anti-uranium activist Kevin Buzzacott pleaded guilty to a charge of "failing to cease to loiter" arising from a December protest, in the Magistrate's Court here on March 29. Buzzacott was arrested
• Loose cannons

  Except at home "You have to face the realities of the modern world ... you can't turn back the clock to a nostalgic period that existed 30 or 40 years ago." — Prime Menzies John Howard explaining why bank mergers are necessary in the