Greenhouse action planned
ADELAIDE — After receiving numerous inquiries about the greenhouse national day of action planned for November 30, the Australian Conservation Foundation has called a meeting to organise a bike rally. All interested activists and organisations are invited to attend. The meeting is on November 5 at 8am at the Left Bank Cafe on Pultney Street. For more information phone Bart van der Wel on 8204 9129.
Youth to protest new law and order push
BRISBANE — The Queensland Department of Justice is running an advertising campaign targeting young people on the theme "Act like a criminal, you'll be treated like one". The campaign has been prompted by a law "reform" which reduces from 18 to 17 the age at which young people can be put into adult jails.
The socialist youth organisation Resistance is planning a protest action on November 21. For details contact 3254 0565.
Action launches Jabiluka campaign
HOBART — Activists took to the streets on October 31 wearing radiation suits, dressed as trees and performing street-theatre to draw attention to the social and environmental costs of the recently approved Jabiluka uranium mine. The mine operator, Energy Resources Australia, is 68% owned by North Ltd, whose forestry division is a major culprit in the trashing of Tasmania's forests. Passers-by were offered cake dyed yellow and a leaflet entitled "Our yellow cake won't kill you ... but ERA's will".
Members of the public were asked what concerns they had about uranium mining and the responses were used to formulate a list of questions that were presented to North Ltd, with a request for answers by November 28.
This was the first of a series of events being organised by the recently formed ENuFF (Everyone for a Nuclear Free Future). On November 11, at Cinema Afterdark, there will be a vegan dinner and screening of films on nuclear and forestry issues. A major rally has been planned for November 28. Phone 6234 6397 or 6234 9366.
Happy end
MELBOURNE — Following the success of their recent production of The Way of the World, the Victorian College of the Arts School of Drama 1997 graduating students turn their attention from the excesses of Restoration England to the mean streets of 1919 Chicago in their final production — Brecht, Lane and Weill's Happy End.
The story of the Salvation Army joining forces with a gang of thieves against the banks caused a riot when the play premiered in Berlin in 1928. The production runs until November 8 at Theatreworks, St Kilda. Phone 9534 3388.