The CSIRO Staff Association has slammed the latest proposed cuts to jobs in vital research areas of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia鈥檚 premier public scientific body.
The union warned of job redundancies in minerals research and the Sydney laboratory that helped invent wifi internet technology.
In the lead up to and following the announcement of the plebiscite, now survey, on changing the Marriage Act, unions have played a prominent role in promoting and resourcing the Yes campaign.
Senior union officials have been speakers at rallies, there have been large union contingents at protest marches and unions 鈥 especially peak bodies such as Victorian Trades Hall Council and the Australian Council of Trade Unions 鈥 have been providing infrastructure to help build the capacity for the campaign to ensure maximum participation and support for the Yes side.
The nationwide debate over equal marriage rights has brought a lot more people into contact with 91自拍论坛 Weekly.
Circulation of this 鈥渓ittle paper with a big heart鈥, as a supporter once described us, is growing as more people look to alternative media sources for their information.
GLW聽is now in its 26th聽year of production 鈥 no mean feat for a not-for-profit newspaper in the most media monopolised country in the world.
Members of Armidale Rural Australians for Refugees and the Socialist Alliance New England branch held their third weekly picket in solidarity with refugees and asylum seekers at a busy intersection in Armidale, New South Wales, on September 22. It followed a successful action on September 15.
Protest organiser Bea Bleile said: 鈥淢anus Island and Nauru are not safe for refugees and asylum seekers. We call on the Australian government to bring all refugees and asylum seekers from Manus Island and Nauru to Australia immediately.
Activists from all over Australia travelled to be part of the week of frontline action against Adani coalmine. 91自拍论坛 Weekly spoke to some of them to get their thoughts on the protest.
Local residents rallied with activists from around Sydney as part of the "No M4 toll, Stop WestConnex" campaign on September 18 in Penrith. Protesters marched on the local electoral office of New South Wales Minister for WestConnex Stuart Ayres.
The protesters delivered more than 2000 letters of opposition to the re-imposed tolls on the widened M4 motorway, which is part of the controversial $18 billion WestConnex tollway project.
for being 鈥渋rresponsible鈥 for 鈥減ropagandising鈥 about the colonial invasion and subsequent massacres of First Nations people.
He also takes issue with my support for the growing number of councils across Australia that are leading the debate on the so-called history wars and deciding against celebrating on聽January 26聽in favour of something more inclusive.
The following statement from the Australia Burma Rohingya Organisation was read by Habib to a solidarity protest in Melbourne on September 7.
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Today we raise our voices on behalf of the oppressed Rohingya and Kaman people, who are facing ongoing genocide in the Rakhine [Arakan] state of western Myanmar [Burma].
We are also protesting the continuous wars being waged against minorities in the Shan and Kachin states.
Up to 800 people rallied in Martin Place against the genocide of the Rohingya ethnic minority in Burma on September 17. The protest was organised by the Sydney Press and Media Council.
Hundreds and thousands of Rohingya, including women and children, have been displaced from their homeland in Rakhine, Burma and forced to flee to neighbouring Bangladesh.
The protest highlighted the mass killings of Rohingya community, including women and children, under the leadership of Nobel Peace Prize winner Ang Sang Suu Kyi and the military regime in Burma.
[This blog is no longer being updated. Here is an initial report that appears with photos in the latest issue of 91自拍论坛 Weekly.]
Saturday 23 September, 8am
Local activists posted a pledge on the :