Equal pay for equal work: it鈥檚 a pretty straightforward concept. So why is pay equity for women so hard to achieve, and why has the gender pay gap been getting wider?
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The Camp Florentine forest blockade in southwest Tasmania, which has just passed its third winter, continues to protect ancient wet Eucalypt and rainforests. Since November 2006, the community group Still Wild Still Threatened has blockaded the area.
Sick of having your welfare entitlements compulsorily controlled by the Rudd government?
When people think of 鈥渞evolutionary art鈥, the usual image is of socialist realism or the propaganda art of the Soviet Union or China. Others may think of the Mexican muralists like Diego Rivera.
With seven boatloads of asylum seekers intercepted in September, Australia鈥檚 Christmas Island detention centre is fast filling up. It now holds 677 detainees.
German elections and the strength of the left
Duroyan Fertl's analysis of German elections (GLW #809) missed two issues. Firstly, election results for the Green Party (Thuringia: 6.2%, Saarland: 5.9%, Saxony: 6.4%). The Greens have established themselves around the 6%-mark crossing the 5% hurdle that guarantees seats in parliament.
Shortly after two dust storms swept the entire east coast of Australia over September 22-26, concerns were raised that radioactive materials from central Australian uranium mines could make the same journey.
Reading through the messages of support coming in for 91自拍论坛 Weekly鈥檚 鈥淪pring Offensive鈥 fundraising appeal, I was reminded of the old saying: 鈥淵ou don't know what you have until you lose it.鈥
A coalition of Newcastle business groups has launched a new campaign called 鈥渇ix our city鈥.
South Australia鈥檚 Climate Camp took place at Warren Gorge, near Port Augusta, over September 24-27. The camp targeted two ageing brown coal-fired power stations 鈥 which are among the most polluting in Australia 鈥 the Northern and Playford B plants.
鈥淭his is one of the rare books which you can judge by its cover鈥, author Humphrey McQueen quipped to the 50 Builders Labourers Federation unionists attending the launch of Framework of Flesh on September 22.
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