The Independent and Peaceful Australia Network (IPAN) launched its "Give 'Em the Boot" campaign, aimed at ending Australia's Force Posture Agreement with the US and sending US Marines based in Darwin back home, at a "Keep Australia out of US wars" public meeting on July 17.
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The premise seems simple and hard to argue with: establish an online database for medical records, controlled by the patients themselves, to improve access to crucial information for healthcare providers.
It has started again.
This week鈥檚 statement by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull that there is 鈥済enuine concern about Sudanese gangs鈥 suggests we have reached the epitome of this ongoing scare campaign. Offering the same rhetoric the Victorian Liberals have has been drumming out for the best part of the past two years, Turnbull unashamedly entered the fray.
Former national secretary of the Textile, Clothing and Footwear Union of Australia (TCFUA) Michele O鈥橬eil was elected president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) at its congress in Brisbane over July 17 and 18. She replaces Ged Kearney, who won the seat of Batman, now renamed Cooper, in Melbourne in March. Sally McManus remains secretary. The following is聽her President鈥檚 Address to the congress.
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Currently more than 800,000 people are without paid work and are struggling to meet basic needs such as housing and food. There are countless stories of those living on welfare having to choose between paying a bill or eating a meal. Anyone who has been unemployed knows it costs money to seek employment, from printing your resumes to the cost of travel to interviews, appropriate clothing or a haircut. It is nearly impossible to look for paid work if you are homeless and hungry.
Ever tried to book a flight online, made a mistake and then found that either there was no one available to help you fix it or that it was just going to cost you more anyway? I have, while experiencing the fury that everyone feels at the helplessness and injustice of it all.
I would consider myself to be relatively computer and internet literate. However this era of new technology and electronic media excludes vast numbers of people and disadvantages them terribly.
The community in Western Sydney is celebrating the Independent Planning Commission鈥檚 (IPC) decision made on July 19 to dump The Next Generation鈥檚 application for a waste-to-energy incinerator at Eastern Creek that would have affected air quality throughout Sydney.
The IPC cancelled Dial a Dump Industries鈥 incinerator plan as 鈥渢he project is not in the public interest because there is uncertainty around the project鈥檚 impacts on air quality, water quality and human health鈥.
On the 50th anniversary of Johnny Cash鈥檚 concerts behind prison walls, later released as聽At Folsom Prison,聽Nicole Colson聽looks at how the US country music legend gave voice to the voiceless.
Several hundred people gathered in the historic Thompson Square, in the town of Windsor, north-west of Sydney on July 22 to demand a royal commission into transport infrastructure and planning in NSW.
The rally was organised by CAWB (Community Action for Windsor Bridge) 鈥 Save Windsor from the RTA (Roads and Transport Authority). CAWB is a grassroots organisation that has been fighting for five years against NSW government plans to demolish the historic Windsor Bridge for a major arterial road, which will also destroy historic Thompson Square, the oldest square in Australia.
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.
The Perth branch of the Australian Unemployed Workers Union (AUWU) launched the 鈥淒ump your demerit points鈥 campaign on July 20 at the Perth Trades Hall.
The Tamil Refugee Council released this statement on July 24.
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The Tamil Refugee Council has again called on the Australian government to end the deportation of Tamil asylum seekers to Sri Lanka, after the United Nations found evidence of widespread torture in the country.
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