In addition to being the home of Bollywood, the Indian city of Mumbai can boast having Asia聮s biggest slum, Dharavi. One million residents are crammed into a square mile of low-rise wood, concrete and rusted iron, reported the December 19 Economist.
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Medical scientists employed in Victoria鈥檚 public hospitals began industrial action for a new wages deal with a 24-hour strike at hospitals in Melbourne鈥檚 Southern Health region on February 5.
Members of the Australian Education Union (AEU) employed in Victorian public schools will stop work for 24 hours on February 14 as part of their campaign for a new enterprise bargaining agreement (EBA) with the state government.
Plans are under way around the country for anti-war protests on March 16 鈥 the fifth anniversary of the start of the Iraq war. This year the anniversary rallies coincide with Palm Sunday, a traditional day of peace movement mobilisation in Australia.
On February 5, before any negotiations had been completed between the NSW Teachers Federation and the NSW Labor government, education minister John Della Bosca announced that from the end of the second term in 2010, public school principals will no longer be obliged to the statewide staffing system.
聯Forty years ago, the Tet offensive 聴 the decisive battle of the Vietnam War 聴 took place, changing the course of the war, and beginning the long retreat of the US military which eventually led to the victory of the Vietnamese revolutionary national-liberation forces with the fall of Saigon in April 1975", Jim McIlroy said at a public forum inBrisbane on January 31, one of a series sponsored by 91自拍论坛 Weekly.
In the lead up to the February 12 Indigenous rights convergence in Canberra, 91自拍论坛 Weekly gathered statements from Indigenous activists around Australia. At the fore of people鈥檚 minds was the Northern Territory intervention, PM Kevin Rudd鈥檚 scheduled apology to the Stolen Generations and the issue of compensating those affected by that policy.
As Victorian Labor Premier John Brumby prepared to deliver his first annual 鈥渟tatement of government intentions鈥 to the opening of the 2008 parliamentary session on February 4, about 100 protesters gathered on the steps of Parliament House.
On February 3, 300 angry Goulburn Valley residents, many of them farmers, blockaded the Sugarloaf reservoir just north of Melbourne to protest the construction of a pipeline from the Goulburn River to Melbourne鈥檚 water supplies. The Goulburn River feeds into the Murray River system, increasingly drained by irrigation and, for many years now, a record drought.
The Western Australian Deaths in Custody Watch Committee (DCWC) has called an urgent public meeting for February 13 to plan a campaign to demand justice for an Aboriginal elder who died on January 27 in the custody of Global Solutions Ltd (GSL), which is contracted by the state government to transport prisoners.
The war for Chad is not over. It is likely to become more bloody and involve a wider humanitarian disaster before any solutions can be grasped. The next week will be critical for the future of the country 鈥 and for the wider region, including Sudanese-controlled Darfur.
On February 6, senior management announced the pending closure of the Tonsley Park Mitsubishi plant. Citing $1.5 billion in losses over the past decade, Mitsubishi Australia executive Robert McEniry explained to the Australian on the same day that the closure 聯was a commercial decision and a commercially responsible decision聰.
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