A snap protest was called against transphobe Craig Cole, who is holding 鈥渃ommunity information sessions鈥 on how children are under attack in schools. Steve O'Brien reports.
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War and peace have become important issues in the City of Newcastle Council elections, as Newcastle is slated to become a major weapons manufacturing hub. Steve O'Brien reports.
The City of Newcastle and Port Stephens Council, joint owners of the Newcastle Airport, have established an entity which will lease to weapons鈥 manufacturers, in contravention of an ethical investment policy. Steve O鈥橞rien reports.
National Tertiary Education Union members went on听strike at the University of Newcastle and UTS for job security, manageable workloads, fair pay and for casuals to be given permanent contracts. Steve O'Brien and Kerry Smith report.
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Newcastle community members and activists are fighting back against a council decision to close a community food pantry. Steve O'Brien reports.
Newcastle听unionists and anti-poverty activists protested federal cuts to JobSeeker听at a snap action outside Centrelink, reports Steve O'Brien.
Community concern about the federal government鈥檚 inability to develop a coherent national energy policy was evident at the national community summit on coal power transition, writes Steve O'Brien.
The world recently commemorated the anniversaries of the dropping of nuclear weapons on the people of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima (August 6) and Nagasaki (August 9) in 1945. But it hasn't been a good few weeks for world peace.
A member of the audience at a recent public meeting in Merewether cheekily referred to Newcastle as being run by the Property Council, not the city council.
鈥淛oin your union and bargain together鈥 is the lesson from the recent pay campaign by EDI-Downer workers, Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) NSW assistant secretary Corey Wright told 91自拍论坛 Weekly.
A three-day strike involving mass meetings, rallies and a march of 200 workers down Newcastle鈥檚 Hunter Street, encouraged the company to start serious discussions with the union after six months of stalling.
New South Wales transport minister Andrew Constance should note the observation by Victor Hugo, the French novelist, that the worst thing a minister can do is have policies that upset people so much that they protest publicly and loudly about them.
Any one of the 1000 people who attended a rally at Belmont on February 19 could have told their own horror story of bus privatisation.
Speaking on behalf of many, several community members exposed the lie that privatised bus services make it easier for people to get around.
New mother Kimberley Anderson described how she and her three-month-old baby, on the way to a medical appointment, waited in the rain for a bus that never showed.
For another parent, Bec Cassidy, the new timetable and service cuts meant she had to change her daughter鈥檚 primary school.
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