International oil giant Chevron is lobbying the US government to cancel trade deals with Ecuador over a court case where it faces a US$16 billion fine for polluting the Amazonian rainforest.
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Work Choices @letter =What rock was Nick Everett hiding under during last year's federal election? (Write On, GLW #761) You couldn't move without a Labor political hopeful promising to "tear-up" Work Choices through the campaign. Rudd promised it
The Victorian state government is considering far-reaching changes to workers聮 compensation laws.
On August 6, Victoria University of Technology (VUT) hosted a seminar, 鈥淧acific Islands Migration and Labour Mobility: Issues and Responses鈥, which discussed the potential for an unskilled guest worker scheme for Pacific Island workers. Some Pacific nations have called for such program to help alleviate high rates of unemployment.
聯Abolish the ABCC! Support rights of building workers!聰 was the message on protesters聮 placards outside PM Kevin Rudd聮s electorate office in Morningside on August 8.
Cups with no Handles: Memoir of a Grassroots Activist
By Carolyn Landon
Hybrid Publishers, 2008
288 pages, $29.95 (pb)
By Carolyn Landon
Hybrid Publishers, 2008
288 pages, $29.95 (pb)
A flurry of public meetings followed the federal government聮s green paper on carbon emissions trading. I attended two quite different information sessions in Sydney.
@details = Growing up Asian in AustraliaEdited by Alice PungBlack Inc, 2008, $27.95 (pb)
Internationally, as in Australia, governments forced to promise climate change action have generally promoted market-based carbon abatement schemes, mostly of the 聯cap and trade聰 variety. But can we trade our way out of our climate difficulties? Can market mechanisms deal with a problem of such scale and urgency?
A bombing that killed five Hamas members and a five-year-old girl on July 25 in the Gaza Strip has escalated tensions in the Occupied Palestinian Territories between the Hamas government in Gaza and the Fatah-controlled Palestinian Authority (PA), based in the West Bank.
With the impact of global warming already being felt, it can be hard to feel positive about the future. However, an August 2 聯climate justice聰 seminar at Melbourne University provided some positive directions for the 140 people who attended.
Unionists protested on July 20 in San Francisco against the decision by Californian Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to cut the wages of more than 200,000 state workers to the federal minimum wage of US$6.55 per hour, alleging he must do so because the state legislature has not passed a budget.
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