Train drivers employed by Rio Tinto’s Iron Ore operations in transporting iron ore in the Pilbara struck on October 11 and will stage a 24-hour stoppage on October 22 .
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SYDNEY — More than 100 people attended a public forum on October 17 featuring Maria Eugenia Guerrero, sister of “Cuban Five” political prisoner Antonio Guerrero.
A student at a Hobart High School was suspended two weeks ago for dying his hair a bright colour.
Hundreds of Tamil people turned up on October 11 for an awareness and protest campaign in Toronto against the Sri Lankan cricket team.
One hundred students and staff at RMIT attended an information session on October 14 organised by the Islamic Students Society (ISS).
IÂ’ve lost count of how much bailout money governments have thrown at the global financial crisis. We all remember the US$700 billion that the US Congress recently approved, but in the months before that the US Reserve had already dished out nearly the same amount in bailouts, buyouts and guarantees for bad loans.
Thank you for your article "Is the abortion law reform in Victoria enough?" [GLW #768]. I appreciate your comments about Canada (one correction: the Canadian Abortion Rights Action League has been defunct for about 5 years, and a different national
The Queensland Plumbers Union says the Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC) is a gross waste of taxpayers’ [money] and called for it to be scrapped after a case against the union was thrown out of court.
On October 10, McDonaldÂ’s workers who are members of the Unite union, as well as community fair trade groups held a protest outside Queen Street McDonaldÂ’s in Auckland.
The case of the Cuban Five, five Cubans who have spent the past 10 years in US jails for the undercover gathering of intelligence on terrorism against their country, provides further evidence of the hypocrisy of US rhetoric about fighting terrorism and supporting human rights.
HOBART — Overnight on October 12, 20 activists staged a protest against logging operations in the Florentine Valley. The protest was organised by environment group Still Wild Still Threatened.
VenezuelaÂ’s tax and customs enforcement office, SENIAT, forced a 48-hour closure of all 115 McDonaldÂ’s restaurants in the country on October 9 as a punishment for tax irregularities, according to an October 10 Venezuelanalysis.com article.
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