The Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) 鈥 a right-wing economic think tank 鈥 released its What鈥檚 Next for Welfare-to-Work? report on October 15. As part of a strategy to push more people off welfare, the report called for a fall in the minimum wage and a tightening of eligibility rules for the Disability Support Pension (DSP).
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Balibo I
Clinton Fernandes describes himself as a "consulting historian" to the movie Balibo. He is a former military intelligence officer, who has his own reasons for promoting the official line on whether Australian intelligence was forewarned
Balibo
By Jill Jolliffe
Scribe Publications, 2009
416 pages, $29.95 (pb)
The Building and Construction Industry Improvement Amendment (Transition to Fair Work) Bill 2009 is scheduled for Senate debate on October 26. The bill would change the Building and Construction Industry Improvement Act 2005 (BCII Act). This would affect the building and construction industry鈥檚 watchdog, the Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC).
There are social expectations on everyone, men and women, to act in particular ways based on our sex. This is bad for everyone because it鈥檚 stifling, but it鈥檚 worse for women and queers.
SYDNEY 鈥 NSW Greens MLC John Kaye addressed a morning rally outside the Financial Review Energy Conference on October 23.
Before the US-Peru Free Trade Agreement was ratified in 2007, many Peruvian and international human rights and environmental organisations said the deal would lead to increased social destabilisation and drug production.
US-Venezuelan lawyer Eva Golinger points out in her books exposing US intervention into Venezuela that the constant stream of lies about Venezuela and its popular President Hugo Chavez are best seen as the leading edge of an integrated strategy of destabilisation and 鈥渞egime change鈥 for the socialist-oriented, oil-rich nation.
SYDNEY 鈥 On October 20, 200 people protested outside Parliament House against the Rees Labor government's moves to repeal 100-year-old laws requiring parliament to approve any sales of land reserved for railways. A wide range of groups were represented, including the transport unions, Greens, Socialist Alliance and transport action groups from around the state.
Almost eight years after choosing Hamid Karzai to head the Afghan government, Uncle Sam would like to give him a pink slip.
The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) national council meeting over October 9-11 adopted key resolutions around climate change amid significant and vigorous debate.
The article below is abridged from an October 18 Tamilnet.org report.
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