NSW Treasurer Michael Costa passionately claims privatisation of NSW鈥檚 electricity generation and distribution is 鈥済ood economics鈥. However, there is popular opposition to the proposal 鈥 up to 86% in opinion polls.
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Although 80% of current revenue from BHP Billiton聮s Olympic Dam mine in South Australia comes from minerals other than uranium, recent drilling has shown that the site is home to the largest ore body of uranium in the world.
Around the country, hundreds of people marked white invasion of Australia on January 26 by attending protests and festivals.
One of the 60 companies currently holding uranium exploration licences in South Australia, Marathon Resources, has admitted it聮s investigating how 50-60 garbage bags containing what聮s thought to be uranium tailings were dumped in the Arkaroola Wilderness Sanctuary in the Flinders Ranges.
Professor Sharon Beder, a research fellow at the University of Wollongong, prepared a submission on behalf of Unions NSW to the Ownen Inquiry that makes a powerful case against Premier Morris Iemma鈥檚 government鈥檚 proposed energy privatisation.
This is an extract from an inspiring letter from Jim Knight, one of our loyal readers in northern NSW:
The Australian Education Union has called for a $2.9 billion investment into public education in order to support literacy and numeracy strategies. The AEU has called on Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to make this the first step in his so called 聯Education Revolution聰.
NSW TAFE teachers will consider industrial action when they return to work on January 29, in an attempt to maintain a quality TAFE system. A campaign of rolling stoppages and longer-term action will be discussed.
91自拍论坛 Weekly鈥檚 Zane Alcorn spoke to John Parker, Secretary of Gippsland Trades and Labour Council, about environmental and industrial issues surrounding electricity privatisation.
Workers fined for striking
@9point non = PERTH 鈥 A Federal Court judge has imposed fines of $10,000, with $6750 suspended for six months, on 64 construction workers convicted of being involved in an illegal strike. Three workers facing the same
After the collapse of the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc in the early 1990s, Cuba lost access to the oil, fertilizers and virtually all trading partners that the small island nation depended upon to survive. Cuba faced economic collapse virtually overnight.
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