The Kimberley Land Council has made a controversial in-principle agreement with Woodside Petroleum and the federal and WA state governments to develop a liquefied natural gas project at James Price Point near Broome.
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The government and most of the mainstream media want Australia to believe we are facing a 鈥渟urge鈥 of asylum seekers, threatening Australian borders as they arrive in dangerous and non-seaworthy boats.
Ironically, it was the first of May 鈥 workers鈥 day 鈥 and we were protesting against privatisation outside the NSW Labor Party offices.
Construction company John Holland and unions are locked in discussions to settle a nine-week-long industrial dispute.
Despite the economic crisis, the Australian government has announced it will increase military spending by billions of dollars over the next 20 years.
More than 300 people marched for May Day in Wollongong on May 2. The lead banner read: 聯People before Profits; Export CEOs not Jobs!聰. There were many different union and community contingents.
鈥淭his is a historic day for Bolivia and Paraguay, a time of peace and friendship, of solidarity among peoples鈥, Bolivian president Evo Morales said on April 28. He had just received the Final Memory report, bringing to an official end a 74-year border dispute between the respective republics.
The speech below was made by Darren Vanderkaay at a solidarity picnic on April 26 at Melbourne聮s Yarraville Gardens. The picnic was hosted by the Western Suburbs Community and Unions Coalition. Darren is one of 39 workers unfairly sacked from the West Gate Bridge strengthening project by construction company John Holland.
Anti-desalination campaign group Watershed has called a protest for May 9 at the site of the proposed desalination plant in Wonthaggi, Victoria. The slogan of the protest will be, 鈥淚f they build it, we all will pay!鈥
A largely defenceless people struggling to survive and hemmed in on a narrow strip of land, facing indiscriminate airstrikes, assault from gun boats and cluster bombs by a well-equipped army, conjures up the image of the recent Israeli invasion of Palestine鈥檚 Gaza Strip.
Mine workers under surveillance
BHP-Billiton Mount Arthur Coal have just recently been found to have acted unlawfully by installing GPS tracking devices into 2 fuel trucks at the Mt Arthur Coal mine near Muswellbrook in the Hunter Valley.
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