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
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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.
On 聯Super Saturday聰 August 16, hundreds of activists across NSW will staff 聯Stop the Sell-Off聰 stalls in 50 NSW electorates. Part of the campaign to stop the state ALP government from privatising electricity, the stalls are expected to gather thousands of signatures on petitions, and promote the mass anti-privatisation rally planned for September 20, at Sydney Town Hall.
@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.
The following call for a national week of protest action, beginning September 21, was issued by the July 5 Climate Emergency Rally organising committee in Melbourne, and endorsed by the August 2 Climate Justice seminar.
Below is an open letter from Naser Fayaz, a journalist for ATN TV channel, which has been sent to human rights organisations. It is reprinted from .
The Revolutionary Women of Afghanistan, , 聯requests all its supporters and well-wishers of Afghan people to defend the brave and freedom-loving journalist Naser Fayaz and register their protest to his harassment by sending letters to the following sources聰: President Hamid Karzai, president@afghanistangov.org; United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, spokesperson-unama@un.org;
Supreme Court of Afghanistan aquddus@supremecourt.gov.af.
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