Kangaroo 95 protest
ADELAIDE — The Campaign for an Independent East Timor (SA) is organising a protest on July 29 against the Kangaroo 95 war games, which are about to take place in the Northern Territory. The action will highlight human rights abuses by the Indonesian military in East Timor and elsewhere. It will take place in Gawler Place, adjacent to Rundle Mall, starting at 10am. For further information contact CIET on 344 3511 or 371 0480.
Chilean activist to tour
ADELAIDE — Casa Chile has invited women's movement and human rights activist Miriam Ortega for an Australian tour. Ortega was a political prisoner under the military regime for 11 years.
Her visit will begin in Adelaide on July 21, where she will participate in the Women's Liberation Conference '95. She will also be addressing public meetings. The tour will include Darwin, Brisbane, Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne.
To support the tour, contact Adelaide: 49 1128 (Jorge or Monica); Darwin: 45 2355 (Didge McDonald); Brisbane: 398 7669 (Efrain); Sydney: 557 5258 (Gonzalo); Melbourne: 326 6421.
Forum features VETO
BRISBANE — Anti-tollway activist Sue Guilfoyle presented an art installation and slide presentation featuring her work on the VETO campaign against the Goss government's planned new highway to link Brisbane and the Gold Coast, at a forum in the Resistance Centre on July 12. The tollway will endanger the koala population of the Daisy Hill State Forest and cut a swathe through homes and rural bushland.
The forum also heard from Democratic Socialist candidate Zanny Begg, who stressed her campaign's support for VETO and for urgent action to tackle the state's environmental crisis.
Protest against Evans
MELBOURNE — One hundred supporters of East Timor were on hand to greet foreign minister Gareth Evans as he arrived to open a UN conference at La Trobe University on July 2. Slogans attacked his support for the Suharto regime and the occupation of East Timor. Inside the conference, many people raised the subject of East Timor, while outside the chanting continued.
Newcastle University bans
NEWCASTLE — The National Tertiary Education Union has asked the NSW minister of education, John Aquilina, to intervene in the dispute between Newcastle University and academic staff over promotion quotas and a 2% pay rise.
Academic staff are imposing work bans, including a ban on the transmission of exam results. This has caused the vice-chancellor to waive all prerequisites for all undergraduate second semester subjects. The bans are being strongly supported by academic staff.