Anti-desalination plant campaigners rallied at the Victorian Labor Party conference in Melbourne on May 24. They were protesting against the state ALP government聮s construction of a large desalination plant at Wonthaggi on the South Gippsland coast.
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According to a May 21 Australian article, Dr Paul Mees, senior lecturer in transport and land use planning, intends to sue Melbourne University. Mees聮s pay was cut after a university inquiry found him guilty of making insulting remarks about a state government official.
On March 1, the Colombian military (with US Special Forces help) illegally attacked a Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People聮s Army (FARC-EP) rebel camp inside Ecuador.
The opening night of the first conference of the Aboriginal Rights Coalition (ARC), held in Australia Hall on May 23, drew 170 activists from around Australia.
A rally against a ban by the Gold Coast City Council on demonstrations in the city聮s parks is being held on May 26 outside the Gold Coast council chambers in Surfers Paradise.
Cuban officials have produced letters that demonstrate 聯irrefutable evidence聰 of the channelling of funds from a convicted anti-Cuban terrorist to Cubans the US has termed 聯dissidents聰 and 聯independent journalists聰.
@9point non = BRISBANE 聴 聯Get on the phone to all your relatives, friends and those you know in El Salvador to urge them to vote for the FMLN in the elections in 2009\", Jorge Shafik Handal Junior, a leader of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, told a 60-strong audience of mainly El Salvadoran migrants at a public meeting on May 17. He also called on Australian supporters to visit El Salvador next year as international observers, to limit the right-wing ARENA government聮s attempts to use fraud to prevent an FMLN victory in the January parliamentary elections and the March presidential election.
The following abridged statement was initiated by participants at the Climate Change 鈥 Social Change conference, hosted by 91自拍论坛 Weekly in Sydney, April 11-13, 2008.
According to a May 19 report by Latin American TV station Telesur, Venezuela聮s defence minister Gustavo Rangel Briceno, denounced the fact that a US fighter jet violated Venezuelan airspace 聴 around the La Orchila island, which houses a Venezuelan military base 聴 two days earlier.
@9point non = BRISBANE 聴 High work pressure, staff turnover, intrusive management monitoring of workers聮 performance and alienation were identified as major issues facing call centre workers, at a May 22 forum organised by Worklife.
鈥淢acquarie Bank bosses鈥 pay cut after profit cut warning鈥, was the headline of an article by Michael Sainsbury and Katherine Jimenez, in the May 21 Australian.
On May 6, five major construction unions met in Brisbane to plan a national campaign to abolish the draconian Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC).
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