The Socialist Alliance is campaigning for the total abolition of the anti-union, anti-worker 聯Work Choices聰 laws. We say abolish Work Choices immediately.
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The Australian Nursing Federation (ANF) has conducted mass meetings around Tasmania to vote on whether to accept the state Labor government鈥檚 offer of a 3.5% annual pay rise over the next three years or step-up industrial action.
On October 30, a Federal Court judge fined the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations (DEWR) $30,000. The fine was for discriminating against union members when it advised Australian Public Service agencies to refuse leave to employees who planned to take part in the November 2005 Australian Council of Trade Unions national protest against Work Choices.
An official from ousted president Jean Bertrand Aristide聮s Lavalas political movement was abducted at gunpoint on October 27. Dr Maryse Narcisse acted as spokesperson for exiled president and belongs to the five-member executive committee of Fanmi Lavalas. She was taken in front of her home in the area of Petion-Ville in Haiti聮s capital.
A report in the October 29 Brisbane Courier Mail signalled that the Queensland state Labor government may finally legislate to decriminalise abortion. But not immediately 鈥 perhaps in 18 months time, well after the federal elections are over. Labor MP for Aspley, Bonny Barry, has been reported as preparing a private member鈥檚 bill to remove abortion from the criminal code. Premier Anna Bligh has said she will support it, but has no intention of introducing a bill.
On October 31, some 70 Wollongong TAFE teachers stopped work in support of students facing massive fee increases. The stopwork meeting condemned both federal and state governments for under-funding TAFE and shifting the cost of quality vocational education onto students. The teachers also expressed disgust at the Howard government for finding a 鈥渓azy鈥 $2 billion to support the duplication of TAFE with the new Australian Technical Colleges (ATCs).
聯America聮s hostile policy to the Iranian people and the country聮s legal institutions are against international law. They are worthless and ineffective, and doomed to failure聰, Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson Mohammad Ali Hosseini told a media conference in Tehran on October 25.
Organisers of the Footscray Racism No Festival have joined forces with the March for Multiculturalism to stage a 聯Big Day Out Against Racism聰 on November 17. The day will start with a street march beginning at 1pm at the State Library and participants will then be asked to make their way to the festival in Footscray, starting at 4pm at the Footscray Primary School.
A divided Sydney City Council on October 29 renewed News Corps鈥 contentious newspaper distribution license with the Lord Mayor Clover Moore's Community Independent Team split down the middle.
Chile, that thin strip of land lulled to sleep by the Pacific and the Andes, has given birth to many people that have left their mark in the hearts of millions all across the planet: the Nobel Prize winners Gabriela Mistral and Pablo Neruda, the amazing composer Victor Jara, tortured and assassinated by Pinochet, our comrade Salvador Allende 鈥 and one of the greatest exponents of Chilean music, Violeta Parra.
Walk Against Warming
Like many people, I am increasingly concerned about the lack of concerted government action on climate change. There is a lot of talk but what we need is immediate action.
We now know that even a small increase in
On November 1, 50 people rallied in Hyde Park to protest the Australian Federal Police鈥檚 (AFP) role in training the Burmese police force. The rally was called by the Australian Coalition for Democracy in Burma.
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