Around the country, hundreds of people marked white invasion of Australia on January 26 by attending protests and festivals.
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One of the 60 companies currently holding uranium exploration licences in South Australia, Marathon Resources, has admitted it聮s investigating how 50-60 garbage bags containing what聮s thought to be uranium tailings were dumped in the Arkaroola Wilderness Sanctuary in the Flinders Ranges.
For the first time in 11 years we are under a new government, a Labor government. PM Kevin Rudd聮s government was elected off the back of mounting dissatisfaction with the continuing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, inaction on climate change, the Northern Territory intervention and Work Choices, but the battle for change has not been won.
Professor Sharon Beder, a research fellow at the University of Wollongong, prepared a submission on behalf of Unions NSW to the Ownen Inquiry that makes a powerful case against Premier Morris Iemma鈥檚 government鈥檚 proposed energy privatisation.
91自拍论坛 Weekly鈥檚 Zane Alcorn spoke to John Parker, Secretary of Gippsland Trades and Labour Council, about environmental and industrial issues surrounding electricity privatisation.
NSW TAFE teachers will consider industrial action when they return to work on January 29, in an attempt to maintain a quality TAFE system. A campaign of rolling stoppages and longer-term action will be discussed.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc in the early 1990s, Cuba lost access to the oil, fertilizers and virtually all trading partners that the small island nation depended upon to survive. Cuba faced economic collapse virtually overnight.
Workers fined for striking
@9point non = PERTH 鈥 A Federal Court judge has imposed fines of $10,000, with $6750 suspended for six months, on 64 construction workers convicted of being involved in an illegal strike. Three workers facing the same
PM Kevin Rudd used potentially rising inflation and interest rates as the excuse for the federal government's economic plan, announced on January 21. Those hoping that the ALP's pre-election promise of an ``economically conservative鈥欌 government was just election hype will be disappointed. It could be straight from the former Coalition government's economics bible.
The Australian Federation of Tamil Associations (AFTA) has called on the Australian government to impose sanctions on Sri Lanka, following the Sri Lankan government聮s decision to abrogate the 2002 Cease Fire Agreement (CFA) with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
In October 2007, with the federal election looming, and global warming generating a lot of tepid air in parliaments around the country, a diverse group of people in Adelaide established the Eco-socialist Network to attempt to generate more serious discussion of environmental issues. 91自拍论坛 Weekly聮s Leslie Richmond spoke to John Rice, activist, socialist, Greens member and one of the initiators of the network.
鈥淧rime ministers of the Solomon Islands and Australia have refused to comment on their meeting in Canberra this afternoon鈥, ABC News Online reported on January 23, adding: 鈥淧rime Minister Kevin Rudd鈥檚 office says he will not be commenting on the outcome of the goodwill visit. Repeated attempts to contact [PM] Dr Sikua have been either unanswered, or unsuccessful, with no reason given for the secrecy.鈥
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