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Public meeting on jobs and the environment By Angela Jordan ADELAIDE - The Native Forest Alliance (NFA) organised a successful public meeting of 60 community activists on April 21 to discuss the campaign against the woodchipping of
By Dave Wright SYDNEY — The Marxist education conference, held at Glebe High School, attracted around 250 people from across NSW. The majority of participants were young activists from a variety of campaigns and movements in Sydney, Canberra,
By Kristian Whittaker CANBERRA - On April 17, about 150 people gathered on the site of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy on the lawns of the Old Parliament House to mark the site's entry into the Register of the National Estate, Australia's official
By Richard Giles Get set for a credit card that is so smart it will be able to pay for goods at a distance with just a wave of your hand. If you have a credit card or ATM card today, you can feed them into an automatic teller and they'll
By Maureen Baker PERTH — Up to 5000 people attended an anti-privatisation rally at lunchtime on April 12. The rally was initiated by the Trades and Labour Council in association with WA Council of Social Services (WACOSS) and the Evatt
ADELAIDE — National Action were stopped in their tracks in Glenelg by about 400 angry protesters and supportive onlookers on April 22. The anti-racist protesters refused to allow National Action to march until their flag poles were confiscated, but
Election funding In the April 12 issue of Green Left Weekly, Lisa Macdonald echoed the line of the mainstream media by trying to portray the recent increase in public funding for election campaigns as some sort of money grab by Australia's
Green It Up features Pinkenba case By Bill Mason BRISBANE — Green It Up, a weekly musical night at the Shamrock Hotel, Fortitude Valley, featured the Pinkenba case on Thursday April 6. Sponsored by Resistance, Green It Up is a regular
By Tim Dauth and Robynne Murphy JOHANNESBURG — The South African Communist Party's Ninth Congress, held here April 6-8, was the second since the unbanning of the SACP. Opened by Eastern Cape Premier Raymond Mhlaba, chairperson of the SACP,
By Janet Parker SYDNEY — Less than a week after Labor's victory in the NSW election, the Civil Aviation Authority announced that aircraft movements at Kingsford Smith Airport would increase by 50% by the end of this year. New areas will be
Women Out Loud: Beijing or Bust! — If you missed this program last Saturday, you'll be relieved to find it being repeated in the early hours of Wednesday, April 26. 35,000 women are expected to attend the UN conference on women in September.
When Morning Breaks By Cassandra Fazio They say the currents are not safe I long to swing from tree to tree And still my line is answered with a cold, electrical machine I dreamt my forest sisters came to take me back We danced in