On November 16 the Iraqi cabinet agreed to a final draft of a 鈥渟ecurity agreement鈥 that would replace the current United Nations mandate 鈥 which has authorised the occupation since 2003 but that is scheduled to expire on December 31.
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Families For a Nuclear Free Future (FFANFF) is a recently formed community group of families in Alice Springs with a united voice against the exploration and mining of uranium.
When the beautiful 100-year-old elm trees in Methven Park, Brunswick began to show signs of stress from lack of water, a group of local residents came together to pressure the local council for a plan to save the trees.
The Victorian division of the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) rallied 500 supporters of tertiary education on November 20.
On November 16, the Community Solidarity group took part in the annual Fremantle Festival parade, calling for the Rudd government to repeal all of the Work Choices legislation and completely scrap the Australian Building and Construction
Commission聮s powers.
Fishing boats have become the latest target in Israel鈥檚 war on the Palestinian territory of Gaza.
The Liberal Party government of Western Australia announced on November 18 that it has lifted the state聮s ban on uranium mining.
On November 16, in his first interview since his election victory, US president-elect Barack Obama told the CBS program 60 Minutes that his administration would close the notorious US concentration camp on the illegally occupied Cuban territory of Guantanamo Bay, and end the use of torture.
NSW teachers stopped work for two hours on November 19 to consider the next stage in their campaign for the reinstatement of a centralised staffing system and salary justice.
Anyone would have thought there would be a profound debate on the thorny issue.
Geelong Trades Hall secretary Tim Gooden thinks it聮s high time for the construction industry unions to 聯stop feeding the hand that strangles us聰. Gooden was referring to the fact that under the legislation that set up the Australian Building and Construction Commission, unions and workers have been hit with $1.39 million in fines ($654,000 of which has been suspended).
The article "Trial of the Goulburn Nine" (GLW #775)contained an error, claiming the Melbourne "terror trial" in September resulted in "six people [being] convicted of conspiring to commit a terrorist act". In fact, they were convicted of belonging to
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