The Nominees are :
RMIT, TAFE and Secondary Students
RMIT Financial and Strategic Planning Offices
Thursday 21st August 1997 - Monday 8th September 1997
Five hundred students stormed the financial planning offices
of RMIT
in Swanston St Melbourne in a strategic move in the campaign against
up-front fees. Nineteen days of refusing to budge made this one of the
longest occupations in Australian history.
Friends Of the Earth & Otway Ranges Environment
Network
Midway Woodchip Mill
Friday 5th June 1998
On World Environment Day this year, activists entered the Midways export woodchip plant north of Geelong to highlight not only logging in the Otways but the logging in water catchments of native forests. This is an on-going campaign with several occupations every year. Activists converged on the site to raise awareness about Midway's source of logs from the Wombat State forests, the Otway Ranges and East Gippsland.
Jabiluka Action Group
Environment Protection Authority
Friday 21st August 1998
When the Victorian Environment Protection Authority
got a new president of the board, Mr Michael Deeley
(pictured), Jabiluka campaigners took their gripes
to the EPA itself.
Perhaps they weren't impressed by the appointee's
previous experience as chairman of the board of North Ltd.,
owners of the proposed Jabiluka mine
and one of Australia's giant woodchipping companies.
He currently juggles both positions.
Friends Of the Earth
Department of Natural Resources and Environment
Marie Tehan, the minister for Conservation and Land Management,
seemed reluctant to meet with environmental campaigners to discuss the fate
of East Gippsland's forests - a year of polite requests were met with a
deliberate silence. Disgruntled but persistent activists disguised themselves
in slick corporate drag and bluffed, snuck and pushed their way into her
office, refusing to leave until the long-awaited meeting eventuated. Protesters
outside provided a more colourful spectacle for the media. The super-slippery
minister eventually agreed to arrange a meeting for a later date - only
to cancel it later.
Anti McDonalds protesters 
Elizabeth Street McDonalds Store October 11th 1997
This was the third year that Melbourne protesters took
part in the
International Anti-McDonald's Day of Action.
This will be a day remembered by both McDonald's staff
and customers alike
at the Elizabeth Street store in the city: this was the first time that
protesters
were able to get inside and make their message heard.
Police weren't so keen for this message to get across.
And the winner is :
RMIT, TAFE and Secondary Students
