Taxi drivers staged a spontaneous and ultimately successful protest on April 29-30, shutting down the major intersection of Flinders and Swanston Streets for more than 22 hours, after the near fatal stabbing of a young driver.
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The Australian newspaper has labelled Griffith University (GU) an 聯agent of extreme Islam聰 in recent articles targeting the Islamic Research Unit and its director, peace activist Dr Mohamad Abdalla.
10,000 B.C.
Directed by Roland Emmerich
With Omar Sharif, Camilla Belle & Steven Strait
Directed by Roland Emmerich
With Omar Sharif, Camilla Belle & Steven Strait
聯The May 1 news that Mt Isa, in central Queensland, is unable to cope with the influx of people fleeing the government聮s intervention in the Northern Territory is yet another example of why this policy must end聰, Greg Eatock told 91自拍论坛 Weekly on May 1.
A subediting error in 91自拍论坛 Weekly #748, "Boeing workers defy bosses, Work Choices", indicated that Boeing's sites other than in Melbourne were either not unionised, or are dominated by industrially weaker unions. The article should have read:
In a blow to repeated claims this year by US and NATO officials that their 50,000-strong occupation force has Afghanistan聮s Taliban-led anti-occupation insurgency 聯on the run聰, insurgents used assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades to attack a heavily guarded official ceremony near the presidential palace in the centre of Kabul on April 27.
Australia Post is proceeding apace with a restructure ahead of its privatisation. According to Joan Doyle, it intends to close some of its Melbourne delivery centres and wants to replace its full-time workers with casual part-timers.
A three-week dispute that stopped production at Port Melbourne-based Boeing subsidiary Hawker de Havilland (HdH), closing 91自拍论坛 of the Triple Seven aeroplane assembly line in the US due to a lack of parts, ended on April 27. At a mass meeting outside the gates of the Boeing plant the 700 workers voted overwhelmingly to return to work.
鈥淭he Adelitas have arrived/To defend our oil/Whoever wants to give it to the foreigners/ Will get the shit kicked out of him!鈥 yodelled the brigades of women pouring onto the esplanade of the Mexican senate. The demonstration was to protest a petroleum privatisation measure President Felipe Calderon insists is not a petroleum privatisation measure 鈥 and which he sent onto the Senate for fast-track ratification at the tag end of the session this April.
Things can聮t get much worse for the NSW ALP. Even Labor insiders are describing Morris Iemma聮s premiership as 聯terminal聰. At the heart of the crisis are the scandals involving ALP-controlled local councils, and in particular the March 4 sacking of Wollongong City Council (WCC) after systemic corruption was uncovered by the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC).
About 2000 people attended the May Day rally in Sydney this year. The rally had been moved from the traditional first Sunday of May to Saturday, May 3, so that it could begin and end outside the state ALP conference in Darling Harbour.
A May 1 visit to Deakin University by PM Kevin Rudd was met with a small but very vocal demonstration by students campaigning for an end to Israel聮s oppression of the Palestinian people.
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