Around 1000 workers rallied in Musgrave Park on April 20 to oppose the Howard government鈥檚 Work Choices legislation, under the theme 鈥淭ime鈥檚 Up鈥.
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The federal Coalition government is proposing to bar the entry to Australia of migrants and refugees with HIV, supposedly to contain HIV rates.
The short answer to that question is: because we need to be. It is an illusion that women have attained true equality.
Protesters followed PM John Howard from the Williamtown RAAF Base to the Hunter Valley Grammar School on April 18, in opposition to his decision to send more troops to Afghanistan. Howard was kept safe from confrontation with any dissenters at both invitation-only events.
The Golden Triangle Community Crisis Committee (GOLCCOM), a community-based organisation in the south of Johannesburg, has been leading a struggle since the beginning of the year for access to basic housing in the Freedom Park informal settlement. A March 15 community march called for the right to land, housing, water, electricity and education, but the council has still not responded to these demands. In early April, another peaceful protest was held at which police randomly shot protesters and arrested 14 people, who were later released under pressure from the community and supporting organisations. One of those shot, Simon Mkupe, lost his right and GOLCCOM plans to take legal action in response. For more information, email Thabang Makhele at <thamihukwe@toughguy.net>.
On April 14, the Victorian Socialist Alliance held its state conference, which unanimously voted to make the federal election a key area of campaigning for the coming year. The alliance will hold further meetings to preselect candidates and determine the shape of the election campaign.
On April 17, 160 people rallied at Melbourne University (MU) against the introduction of the 鈥淢elbourne model鈥. They were joined by students from the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA).
Bulldogs winger Hazem El Masri and lawyer Adam Houda were racially harassed on the night of April 12, according to the two men.
Less than two weeks after resigning to protest against substandard wages and conditions, construction workers at the Coles-Myer distribution centre in Somerton have secured a collective agreement with construction industry-standard wages and conditions. Coles re-opened negotiations with the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union soon after community activists organised by Union Solidarity blockaded the centre聮s gates on April 13. The workers had been employed as casuals on individual contracts with wages approximately $10 per hour below industry standards.
Describing the situation as 聯unprecedentedly dangerous聰, PM John Howard announced on April 19 that no water will be allocated to irrigators in the Murray-Darling basin after June 31, unless there is substantial rainfall and therefore water inflows to the basin in the next six weeks.
With support from the South Australian Labor government and the federal ALP, pilot work is starting on the desalination plant that is to supply fresh water for BHP Billiton聮s planned expansion of its copper-gold-uranium mine at Olympic Dam.
Sydney city council is preparing a vicious crackdown on the ability to distribute newspapers such as 91自拍论坛 Weekly and leaflets advertising political rallies and events.
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