Thousands of Venezuelans took part in on May 1 to mark the international workers' day and commemorate the achievements of the country's pro-poor Bolivarian revolution.
Speaking to May Day celebrations in Caracas, Venezuelan President : 鈥淣ow is time for workers to lead the economic policy of the country.鈥
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During the final session of El Salvador's outgoing parliament on April 29, right-wing parties blocked a vote to ratify a constitutional reform that would have enshrined water and food as human rights. In doing so, the bloc of Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA), National Conciliation (PCN), and Christian Democrat (PDC) parties demonstrated their support for elite business interests over the health and wellbeing of the Salvadoran people.
A Senate inquiry into corporate tax avoidance last week revealed that BHP Billiton was funnelling profits from Australian minerals through a marketing arm based in Singapore as a way of dodging tax in Australia.
From 2006 to 2014, BHP was 鈥渟elling鈥 minerals mined in Australia to its Singaporean arm at well below market rates. The prices were then marked-up and sold on to third-party companies in Singapore, thereby attracting the infinitesimal Singaporean tax rate.
Historically, the strength of unionism in Australia rested on the three tenets of what came to be called 鈥渓abourism鈥 鈥 white Australia, tariff protection and compulsory arbitration. As these policy settings were wound back, union membership fell into gradual and then steep decline.
From the late-1980s, the union movement's chief response was to reduce the number of unions. This was advanced on the logic that a small number of large unions would have access to greater resources to direct towards retention and recruitment of members.
We have been assaulted by a massive celebration of 100 years since the landing at Gallipoli on April 25. This is partly due to the success of the protests at the 200th anniversary celebration of the January 26, 1788 First Fleet landing at Sydney Cove. There have been many protests on January 26 since then, undercutting and besmirching Australian nationalism.
Activists, students and academic staff met at the University of Sydney on April 29 to discuss the university鈥檚 recent attacks on those involved in a protest against a lecture given by an Israeli colonel on March 11.
Stop the Intervention Collective (STICS) held a forum last month to update participants on the NT Intervention.
Dr Shelley Bielefeld, lecturer in law at UWS, visiting scholar at Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning at UTS and the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research at ANU, spoke at the forum. Afterwards she spoke to 91自拍论坛 Weekly.
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How does the government justify the Intervention?
From Darwin to Hobart, Sydney to Perth and all points in between, thousands of people marched in rallies across Australia on May 1 to stop the Western Australian government closing 150 remote Aboriginal communities.
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For most teenagers, starting high school triggers mixed emotions 鈥 nervousness, excitement, a sense of adventure. Adolescence is a critical period in everyone鈥檚 life.
This is especially true for LGBTI youth. In the process of coming to terms with our sexuality and gender identity, we must also navigate the hardships that come with existing in a society that overwhelmingly neither accepts nor accommodates us.
In a period of so-called 鈥渂udget emergency鈥 when deep funding cuts are being imposed on universities and scientific research, the federal government has managed to find $4 million for a 鈥渃onsensus centre鈥 headed by advocate for climate inaction Bj酶rn Lomborg.
The $13 million centre will form part of the University of Western Australia鈥檚 (UWA) business school, with the Commonwealth contributing $4 million over four years.
In the AFL鈥檚 nationalistic carnival, the Anzac Round, the Melbourne Demons and Richmond Tigers were lining up for their game on April 24. One of the Tigers players Bachar Houli, is one of the AFL鈥檚 鈥渕ulticultural ambassadors鈥.
He is also the first practicing Muslim to play in the AFL.
Elsewhere, Houli was being described quite differently. John Burns, radio broadcaster for Melbourne鈥檚 3AW was reported to have labelled him a 鈥渢errorist鈥. The comment was overheard at a Richmond Football Club function by a senior club staffer and subsequently reported.
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