Around 50 protesters occupied the construction site of Newcastle鈥檚 third coal loader at Kooragang Island on April 19, forcing work to be stopped for around an hour and a half. The protest was organised by the climate change group Rising Tide Newcastle.
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Indigenous activists are awaiting the full report into stolen wages after preliminary research by a Western Australian government task force found 28,000 references to wages not having been paid to Aboriginal workers between 1905 to 1972. However it the number of workers whose wages were stolen is not yet known. Nor is the exact amount owed.
In an unannounced visit to Baghdad on April 20, US Secretary Condoleezza Rice praised Nuri al Maliki, Iraq鈥檚 Shiite prime minister, for 鈥渙rdering鈥 a military offensive last month in the Iraqi seaport city of Basra against anti-occupation Shiite cleric Moqtada al Sadr鈥檚 Mahdi Army militia.
The principal of the exclusive Anglican Church Grammar School in Brisbane is attempting to ban same-sex couples from attending the school formal in June. After several senior students had indicated their intention to take partners of the same sex, headmaster Jonathan Hensman came out publicly saying it would not be appropriate.
Tasmanian public sector workers will be attending stopwork meetings in the week beginning May 5 to consider a government offer on wages and conditions. In a negotiation process that has dragged on for over 18 months, members of the Health and
On April 24, as day broke over Canberra, red flags with yellow stars moved in columns throughout the city, held in the hands of marchers, fluttering from car aerials and hanging in the windows of hundreds of buses.
The recent decision by World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and the Climate Institute to support carbon sequestration and storage (CCS) will set back Australia鈥檚 efforts to confront climate change, as well as increasing the costs of doing so.
A landmark legal case has begun against mining corporation Xstrata over claims that it 聯wilfully and negligently聰 caused toxic contamination of large parts of the north-western Queensland city of Mount Isa over decades.
On May 1, International Workers Day, workers and unionists need to reflect on the greatest challenge facing humanity: global warming.
The following is an abridged version of a talk given by Terry Townsend at the recent Climate Change 聴 Social Change Conference in Sydney. Townsend is a long-term member of the Democratic Socialist Perspective and the managing editor of Links online journal (<http://links.org.au>).
I鈥檓 not going to yet another ritualised May Day march this year. But neither is anyone else in Sydney!
The 2020 summit was two days of political theatre for the new Rudd government. For 48 hours over April 19-20, film stars brushed white-board markers with Australia聮s richest, and politicians mixed with Indigenous people, unionists and youth delegates.
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