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Successful week of Venezuela solidarity

Fred Fuentes To mark the four-year anniversary of the attempted coup in Venezuela, defeated within 72 hours by a popular uprising in which President Hugo Chavez was reinstated, a week of activity was organised by the Australia-Venezuela Solidarity

Reprieve for Qantas workers

MELBOURNE — On April 14, the Australian Industrial Relations Commission (AIRC) ordered Qantas to try to stop 480 workers employed at the airline's Sydney maintenance centre from losing their jobs as a result of the company's push to move its Boeing

Support grows for same sex civil unions

Farida Iqbal & Jo Delaney Queer activists in Canberra are organising to support ACT Chief Minister Jon Stanhope's Civil Unions Bill 2006, which will allow couples access to many of the legal benefits of marriage, but without the formal title.

IR campaign debated in WA

Ron Perkins, Perth Four blue-collar WA unions have resolved to organise a rally on June 28 as part of the nationwide protests against the Work Choices legislation, despite the refusal of UnionsWA to endorse it. The four unions are the Maritime