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Defend universities - defend Robert Austin

Report on the Campaign to Defend Robert Austin, with guest speakers. Further details will be posted to the website.

Wednesday 30th November.
6pm, RMIT University.
Room 11, Level 4, Bld 22 (cnr La Trobe & Swaston Street City)

More info
Defent Robert Austin Website | Sacked for having an opinion | Public Debate
 

Groupthink and the University Left

Andrew Bolt from the Herald-Sun and Professor Rob Watts from RMIT

University debate: “Groupthink and the University Left”

Friday 25th of November, 12:30 to 2:00
RMIT University Storey Hall Swanston St
Presented by the School of Social Science and Planning

Columnist Andrew Bolt from the Herald-Sun has recently criticised an RMIT teacher for forwarding an email to students giving them details of an upcoming environmental protest. In a later column Bolt was again critical of an academic who postponed classes so that students could go to a protest rally. What then is the role of Universities in public life? What should be the role of academics, staff and students in today’s universities?

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International Human Rights Day

Solidarity Night
A celebration of our struggles.
Workers rights, aboriginal rights, democratic rights, human rights
One Stuggle, one fight

When:
Saturday December 10, 7pm
Brunswick Town Hall, 253 Sydney Rd, Brunswick
More info Manirco 96637277

Rally
Saturday December 10, State Library, Swaston St. City 1pm.
Defend the right to organise globally.
 

National Community Day of Protest

Day of Community Protest

Tuesday 15 November 2005
9am Federation Square, 10am March up Swanston St then right at Latrobe St to, 11am Exhibition Gardens - Join the fight against Howard's industrial rampage.

Melbourne Rally Info | download flyers
What's On in Your Region > regional events & Skychannel hook-up
Gippsland buses to Melbourne

 

Debate

The Electrical Trades Union have taken the initiative of organising a great debate immediately after the mass rally on November 15th on the theme of:

'Who represents Workers? - ALP? Greens? Independents? A New Party?'.

Speakers will be from the ETU; Steve Jolly Socialist Party Councillor; Joan Doyle, the State Secretary of the posties division of the Communication Workers Union; and Lyn Dixon, the Chairperson of the residents association at the largest public housing estate in Victoria, the North Richmond estate.

The meeting will be held at the Comrades Bar in Swanston St, Carlton South (situated between the ETU and CFMEU offices) at 1.30pm on the afternoon of Tuesday, 15th November, that is immediately after the mass workers rally on that day.
 

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