International Women聮s Day (IWD) 聴 March 8 聴 was marked by marches protesting the recent acquittal of former assistant police commissioner Clint Rickards and two other former police officers on charges of rape.
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A tiny group dominates Australian politics and Labor leader Kevin Rudd recently met them. He knows very well that the key to Labor聮s electoral success later this year is an accommodation with the Australian oligarchy.
In an out-of-court settlement, which became public on March 4, Victorian Labor Premier Steve Bracks鈥 government agreed to pay compensation to 47 protesters injured at the 鈥淪11" blockade of the World Economic Forum in Melbourne in September 2000. The settlement awards $700,000 in compensation, although $600,000 will go to legal fees.
In 91自拍论坛 Weekly #693, we published an article broadly in favour of George Monbiot鈥檚 call for carbon rationing. Below, Gar Lipow critiques this as a strategy for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
The Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) voted to affiliate to the ALP at the union鈥檚 March 2-4 national governing council meeting. The enabling motion, heavily amended during the course of the meeting, passed by 42 votes to 12.
Several NSW unions have decided to endorse the March 17 Sydney rally against the war in Iraq, organised by the Stop the War Coalition. They are the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA); the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union; the NSW Fire Brigade Employees Union; and the National Tertiary Education Union.
Women's day
Happy Women's Day, health minister Abbott. Just a reminder that undermining the independent choices of women has alienated nearly half the voting population. And, as a parent of an autistic child, whose expensive therapy is not
Some 40 Sydney University students held a speak-out outside the army recruitment stall during orientation week on February 28, drawing attention to campus anti-war sentiment. Sydney University anti-war activists passionately poured their knowledge of the war聮s criminality into the megaphone and the action was a spectacle of peaceful dissent.
The reason for the existence of the Redfern-Waterloo Authority (RWA) can be summed up in just two words: corporate greed.
PM John Howard and US President George Bush are in trouble over their 聯war on terror聰. Two things help illustrate why this is the case, and how we can hasten them both into the dustbin of history.
During May-June this year, Queensland聮s Shoalwater Bay will host tens of thousands of Australian and US troops engaged live-fire, large-scale military exercises that will pose grave risks for the environment and people聮s health. The Shoalwater Military Training Area (SWMTA) is located inside the Great Barrier Reef National Park.
On March 5, the International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers鈥 Unions (ICEM), the global union federation for oil workers, issued a call for 鈥渟trong condemnation鈥 by supporters of workers鈥 rights of US-led military raids on union offices in Baghdad on February 23 and 25. During the raids, targeting the General Federation of Iraqi Workers (GFIW), a member of the union鈥檚 security staff was arrested and office equipment was destroyed. On February 19, the Iraq Syndicate of Journalists was raided and computers and membership records were confiscated.
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