Workers across Australia are working longer hours, for less pay and with more job insecurity. These are the findings of a report released on October 29 and prepared by the Workplace Research Centre at the University of Sydney.
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Twenty-seven members of the Colombian armed forces, including generals and other high-ranking officers, have been fired in connection to revelations that they had been involved with the abduction and murder of civilians.
After walking in to Bayswater power station near Singleton, I was one of about 25 people who took part in a protest at one of Australia聮s biggest CO2 emitters on November 1.
Concern about the threat of climate change and environmental destruction has probably never been higher. Opinion polls consistently show that a big majority of Australians support serious action on climate change and a move away from an economy based on the burning of fossil fuels for energy.
There can be no doubt that the great majority of the 55 million US citizens whose votes made Barack Obama president want change.
Twenty people from farming families on the Darling Downs travelled several hours to occupy Premier Anna Bligh聮s office on October 31, demanding the state government introduce legislation to protect prime farmland from mining.
鈥淲e鈥檙e a listening government鈥, said Verity Firth, the NSW education minister and Labor MP for the now marginal seat of Balmain, when announcing the abandonment of the plan for a takeover by Sydney University of Callan Park in the heart of her electorate.
On November 7, rallies in support of Lex Wotton took place around the country as Wotton was sentenced in Townsville to six years聮 prison for 聯riot with destruction聰.
Despite no pay since their October 15 stand-down, 130 workers at the John Valves foundry in Ballarat remain resolute about getting their jobs back.
Given the Earth鈥檚 atmosphere and its oceans are a closely interlinked natural complex, steeply rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide are having dramatic impacts on the seas as well.
Pat Dodson, a Yawuru man from Broome, Western Australia, used his Sydney Peace Prize acceptance speech on November 5 to slam the Northern Territory intervention. He described it as a 聯crude, racist and poorly considered policy聰.
The latest reports by climate scientists, which reveal that global warming is taking place at a faster pace then first thought, indicate that the Socialist Alliance climate change charter, produced for last year鈥檚 federal election, is now out of date.
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