There have been nationwide protests against the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government聮蝉 decision to raise the prices of petrol, diesel and cooking gas.
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The following article is abridged from a June 26 post on http://peruanista.blogspot.com. The full article, along with a series of videos on the struggle, can be found at http://links.org.au.
Employees and Australian Workers Union (AWU) members at CSR聮蝉 Yarraville sugar refinery are in dispute with management over a log of claims for their enterprise bargaining agreement.
Each year 80,000 abortions are performed in Australia, with one in three women having a termination at some stage in their lives.
Two weeks ago, I presented a young Palestinian, Mohammed Omer, with the 2008 Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism.
David Rovics has been described as the musical voice of the progressive movement in the US. In this interview with 91自拍论坛 Weekly聮蝉 Matt Clark, he explains his motivations, his influences and his take on politics today.
On June 26, NSW Nurses Association branches voted in favour of the pay and conditions offer and classification review offer made by the NSW health department. The first 3.9% pay rise will happen in early July. There are some improvements to conditions; notably, part-timers can choose to increase their contracted hours to the average actually worked over the preceding 12 months.
Against the split in the Aboriginal rights campaign
I am writing to protest the actions of those who walked out of the Sydney Aboriginal Rights Coalition (ARC) on June 23 to set up a rival group. This split is damaging to the movement against the
There have been nationwide protests against the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government聮蝉 decision to raise the prices of petrol, diesel and cooking gas.
On June 21, Indigenous affairs minister Jenny Macklin announced that her government would begin to end funding for infrastructure to remote Northern Territory (NT) Aboriginal communities that she deemed were 聯economically unviable聰. This is the Rudd Labor government聮蝉 first major attack on Aboriginal land rights since taking power.
Truck drivers are planning a national strike if demands for changes to new transport reforms are not met by the federal government. Drivers from NSW, Victoria and Queensland will take action from midnight on July 27.
Censoring Science: Inside the Political Attack on Dr. James Hansen & the Truth of Global Warming
By Mark Bowen
Dutton, 2008
324 pages, $49.95 (hb)
By Mark Bowen
Dutton, 2008
324 pages, $49.95 (hb)
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