The ‘deep recession’ (depression) is starting to bite, and it will get much worse. Unemployment is forecast to rise to 8% next year (or 180,000 people). Because the dole is set so pitifully low, heaps of people are going onto benefits that pay a wee bit more. Now there are almost as many sickness beneficiaries as there are people on the dole. All in all, there are now 310,000 beneficiaries, up from 258,000 last year.

Mutiny is an anarchist collective based in Sydney. We started this zine to explore different avenues of disobedience & resistance, & to encourage people to write about their ideas, actions & experiences.

As in past years, while tens of thousands at Melbourne’s Shrine of Remembrance and elsewhere around the country did what they thought appropriate, others, numbering hardly more than ten, met outside the former headquarters of the Melbourne branch of the IWW in a commemoration with a different flavor.

Australia, May 29, 2009 - The Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) is pushing for increased unemployment benefits in line with the big increase to the aged pension in last month’s federal budget.

Jura and Black Rose Books are proud to present the first Sydney Anarchist Film Festival. We are showing 14 great films over the queens birthday long weekend (5th - 8th June). The films include tasty rarities as well as anarchist smash hits.

Early in the morning of January 12, more than 60 police raided a peaceful community blockade in the Upper Florentine Valley, Southern Tasmania, Australia. Camp Florentine, which was constructed in logging coupe FO044A, has been defending the globally recognized old-growth forests of the Upper Florentine for more than two years. The blockade was constructed of treesits cabled to monopoles, a suspended monopole and tripods, three dragons and a tunnel dug deep beneath the existing logging road. The raid came as Forestry Tasmania moved machinery into the forest, in an attempt to build a new two-and-a-half-mile logging road, which would open up the valley to industrial scale destruction in four planned logging coupes. Around 80 percent of the timber harvested from these coupes, if they are allowed to go ahead, will be wood-chipped and exported by Gunns Limited, the largest wood-chipping company in the southern hemisphere.

The collapse of global financial markets in late 2008 has given mining companies in Australia a welcome gift for 2009. The rejection of the anti-worker “Work Choices” legislation by the Rudd government in 2008 kick started feelings of optimism and solidarity amongst mine workers in the conspicuously nonunionised mines of Western Australia.

Australians may not be able to opt out of the government's Internet filtering initiative like they were originally led to believe. Details have begun to come out about Australia's Cyber-Safety Plan, which aims to block "illegal" content from being accessed within the country, as well as pornographic material inappropriate for children. Right now, the system is in the testing stages, but network engineers are now saying that there's no way to opt out entirely from content filtering.

On the evening of Tuesday 19th August twenty students from the University of Melbourne calling themselves Student Housing Action Collective (SHAC) occupied the four terraces marked with the numbers 272-278 in Faraday Street, Carlton. Their proposal was to transform the premises, left idle for the previous three years, into a student-run housing co-operative. A conflict was set up between an
autocratic University administration and students with legitimate claims for autonomy.

After a long hiatus, at its new, permanent home in Northcote. Barricade is holding a reopening party on the 13th of September, and will then be open regularly with a bookshop and infoshop, extensive anarchist library and archive, as well as a social space for meetings, scheming, networking, film nights, gigs and events.