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Rally calls for Medicare to be extended

BY CHRIS SLEE MELBOURNE — Two-hundred people attended a rally to defend and extend Medicare on October 3. Victorian Trades Hall Council president and Textile Clothing and Footwear Union state secretary Michele O'Neil told the rally that the

The LBJ protest in Melbourne

BY PETER BOYLE An internet almanac of the 1960s, <http://www.milesago.com/Almanac/1966.htm#October>, records the Melbourne protests against the October 1966 visit of US President Lyndon Baines Johnson with this brief entry: "A[n]

'No war' protesters convicted

BY DALE MILLS SYDNEY — Will Saunders and David Burgess, the protesters who painted "No war" on the Sydney Opera House on March 18, at the beginning of the Iraq War, were convicted of malicious damage on October 2. The act achieved prominent media

Labor sells out on Senate

"Crean joins PM in plans to hobble the Senate", read the Australian Financial Review's headline on October 9. The Labor Party's rapid cave-in on the federal Coalition's plans to nobble Australia's more representative federal house of parliament is a

Construction workers protest attack on unions

BY RUSSELL PICKERING& PAUL BENEDEK Last week, thousands of construction workers walked off Perth and Sydney work sites in protest against federal government plans to undermine pass legislation restricting the ability of unions to defend workers'

BY RUSSELL PICKERING
& PAUL BENEDEK

Last week, thousands of construction workers walked off Perth and Sydney work sites in protest against federal government plans to undermine pass legislation restricting the ability of unions to defend workers' wages and conditions in the construction industry.