On March 30, Students for Palestine organised a rally against Australian university complicit in Israel's crimes. BAE Systems is a defence company worth $US38 billion. They make everything from assault rifles, missiles, tanks, drones, nuclear weapons, and even the shackles used in Guantanamo Bay. BAE has been targeted because of the horrifying weapons systems it sells to Israel.
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鈥淭he future is uncertain for more than 400 Shell employees,鈥 , 鈥渁fter the company announced it is selling its refinery in Geelong in Victoria.鈥
Shell's Clyde refinery in NSW and Caltex's Lytton refinery in Queensland are both closing, at a cost of 1080 jobs.
It seems that everyone in Australia can now agree that a class war has erupted. Former Labor Party leader Simon Crean, recently sacked by Prime Minister Julia Gillard said: 鈥淭he Labor Party has always operated most effectively when it has been inclusive, when it鈥檚 sought consensus, not when it has sought division, not when it has gone after class warfare.鈥
The ongoing strike at Sydney University attracted national media attention on March 26 when strike-supporting students were dragged from a lecture theatre by riot police.
The students were engaged in a 鈥渞oaming picket鈥 that was disrupting one of the few remaining classes held that day when police intervened. This sparked debate as to whether student supporters used appropriate tactics to make their presence heard.
A picture of a 1938 Daily Mail article titled "German Jews pouring into this country鈥, circulated social media networks last week and drew comparison with Australia's 鈥渟top the boats鈥 obsession.
鈥淭he number of Jewish aliens entering this country through the 'back door'鈥 was 鈥渁n outrage鈥 and 鈥渁 problem to which The Daily Mail has repeatedly pointed,鈥 the article said.
A capacity crowd of about 350 people filled the room for the opening night of the Marxism 2013 conference in Melbourne on March 28.
Sydney University staff have successfully shut down campus as part of their ongoing enterprise bargaining campaign today (March 26). The two-day strike, by members of the National Tertiary Education Union and Community and Public Sector Union, is continuing tomorrow.
The National Tertiary Education Union released this statement on March 7.
Lock the Gate have launched a new campaign that calls for national reforms on coal and gas ahead of the 2013 federal election. As part of the launch on March 7, members will be visiting every electorate office in the country. Our Call to Country Together, we share this one continent that holds us safe. An island home as vast as it is diverse, as wild as it is beautiful, from its red heart to its golden beaches. Our place of endless summers and easy laughter, of hard work and happy chances.
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