In launching Not so super, for women: Superannuation and women鈥檚 retirement outcomes鈥 by David Hetherington and Warwick Smith on July 20, Australian Services Union (ASU) national secretary David Smith said: 鈥淎ustralia鈥檚 compulsory superannuation system is failing women. According to the latest figures, women are retiring with around half as much superannuation (53%) as men.鈥
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Bus drivers and supporters rallied outside Burwood Bus Depot on July 20 to oppose plans by the NSW Coalition government to privatise Inner West bus services.
At the rally, petitions containing around 14,000 signatures against the bus privatisation were handed over to Labor and Greens MPs. Petitions with more than 10,000 signatures trigger a debate in state parliament.
The government reportedly announced a call for corporate expressions of interest in the privatisation the same day.
On July 21, a Western Australian Supreme Court jury found the man accused of chasing and killing Aboriginal teen Elijah Doughty with his car was not guilty of manslaughter.
It is the latest demonstration that the legal system is failing Aboriginal people and exposes the depths of a racism that remains the bedrock of mainstream Australian culture.
鈥淚n solidarity with Elijah鈥檚 family, his community and Kalgoorlie, we stand in protest鈥 was the call by the Aboriginal group Fighting in Solidarity Towards Treaties (FISTT), which organised a rally of about 300 people at the Supreme Court in Sydney on July 24. It was one of a series of protest rallies around the country.
Wiradjuri elder Aunty Jenny Munro asked: 鈥淲here is the national outcry for this innocent 14-year-old boy? Where is the justice for the death of an innocent child? There is no justice for a murdered Aboriginal child.
Imagine a workplace where you could be put on a secret register for forgetting to say a word from a call centre script because it would be a breach of company policy. Then, if you left that company and tried to get a new job, your prospective employer would not hire you simply because you were on that register.
You would never know whether you were on that register; you would have no right of appeal; nor would your name ever be removed from it, regardless of whether you were eventually found not guilty of the allegation.
Some 50 activists played protest games, sang and danced in the Commonwealth Bank鈥檚 foyer in Sydney on July 24. Stop Adani Sydney spokesperson Rada Germanos told 91自拍论坛 Weekly: 鈥淲e鈥檙e playing games in the Commonwealth Bank鈥檚 Sussex Street foyer calling on it to stop playing games with our collective future and pull out of funding the Adani Carmichael coal mine [in Queensland].鈥澛
Warrnambool City councillors unanimously voted to support marriage equality on July 3. Councillor David Owen, who instigated the motion, said backing marriage equality would be a 鈥渟ymbolic act, in support of a very important social justice issue鈥 and align it with 48 other councils in Australia.
The family of Ms Dhu, who died in police custody in August 2014, is to launch legal action against the state of Western Australia, the police and the Country Health Service. They plan to lodge a claim of misconduct leading to death and a complaint of racial discrimination to the Australian Human Rights Commission.
Ms Dhu鈥檚 uncle Shaun Harris said the claims were about accountability and instigating change. 鈥淲e need to enforce change, custodial change and reform, not just in Western Australia but Australia wide. Without accountability there will be no justice for my niece.鈥
The largest ever Australia-US joint military exercises have just finished. Talisman Sabre 2017, the seventh of these expensive biennial war games, wound up in Brisbane on July 26 on the USS Ronald Reagan 鈥 a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier with capacity for 5000 troops and 200 fighter jets.
Members states of the Organization of American States (OAS) have聽once again聽failed to reach consensus to 鈥渢ake action on Venezuela,鈥 which Caracas regards as interference in its internal affairs.聽
At a July 26 meeting of the OAS Permanent Council in Washington, 13 countries read a declaration calling on the Venezuelan government to abandon the July 30聽Constituent Assembly elections.
That was two fewer member states than supported a similar resolution at the OAS foreign ministers' meeting on June 19, and five short of the number needed to pass a resolution.
Images of the Bolivarian National Police firing tear gas at protestors in Venezuela cannot be provided to us in large enough quantities by the mainstream media.
In the face of an escalating international campaign by the right-wing Venezuelan opposition, backed to the hilt by the US, to bring down the left-wing government of President Nicolas Maduro, solidarity activists around the world, including Australia, are stepping up their activities. Supporters of the Venezuelan right-wing opposition are also escalating聽their efforts aimed at undermining and attacking the solidarity movement.
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