United States oil giant ExxonMobil Corporation has launched a major attack on the Venezuelan people's right to independence and self-determination.
In January and February, ExxonMobil used the courts in Britain, the US and the Netherlands to get
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Over the last few weeks, a series of Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) articles have revealed the corruption of the federal Socio-Economic Status (SES) funding model, used to allocate education funds to private schools.
聯M聰 was born in a small town in Western Australia聮s wheat belt. Around those parts, lads like M were called 聯Keller fellers聰. They were wildly applauded when they performed for the local football team but they knew about certain lines that they could not cross. An outsider could not see those invisible fences, but to the locals, white and black alike, they may as well have been painted in fluoro paint.
Almost universally, governments are refusing to recognise the scope and urgency of the changes demanded by global warming. The menace, however, is real, and the time available for concerted action to combat it is frighteningly brief.
In December 2005, four activists (Christians Against All Terrorism) were arrested while carrying out a citizen鈥檚 inspection of the US Pine Gap war base, near Alice Springs. They carried out a simple 鈥渢respass鈥 action and had permission from the traditional Aboriginal owners.
On February 8, the South Australian government voted to extend its moratorium on commercial GM crops, despite Victoria and New South Wales recently legislating to allow commercial GM plantings. Western Australia and Tasmania still have bans in place.
On February 14, at least 10,000 striking government school teachers rallied in the Vodafone Arena in the Melbourne Park complex in the largest stop-work meeting in the history of the Victorian branch of the Australian Education Union.
Stationery giant Esselte, which last year attempted to force its workforce onto AWAs, is threatening compulsory redundancies against eight workers due to changes to 聯business processes聰.
The basic argument in favour of the privatisation of electricity generation and distribution is simple 鈥 public ownership allows too much bargaining power to electricity workers and their unions (which they will always use to defend 鈥渋nefficient practices鈥 and 鈥渙verstaffing鈥); it also fosters over-investment in generation capacity by engineers concerned to guarantee service reliability (鈥済old-plating鈥).
In the afterglow of saying sorry to the Stolen Generations, the federal Labor government introduced its first piece of industrial relations legislation into parliament on February 13 鈥 the Workplace Relations Amendment Bill. While the government claims that this legislation is the first step in dismantling Work Choices, in fact, it will leave most of Work Choices intact.
On February 13, 50 people attended an angry public meeting at the Derbarl Yerrigan Health Services centre in East Perth. The meeting called for an immediate cessation of transporting prisoners long distances in road vehicles following the death in custody on January 27 of an Aboriginal elder.
Hollywood writers won gains following a 14-week strike against TV and film producers that ended with a new contract giving them a percentage of revenue for programs streamed on the internet 聴 a demand that industry bosses had vowed to resist.
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