Farmers, businessmen and Traditional Owners from north-west NSW travelled to Adelaide on May 3 to tell Santos and its shareholders at the company AGM it will face a rural uprising if it proceeds with the Narrabri coal seam gasfield.
They were joined by South Australian locals who oppose Santos鈥檚 plans to drill for oil in the Great Australian Bight, telling Santos it has 鈥淣o Licence to Drill鈥 because these projects do not have community support.
Staff and employers of the Murdoch University Student Guild have reached an in-principle agreement in the latest round of bargaining after four weeks of negotiations.
Despite the short time frame, the negotiation team for the workers, which constituted an NTEU Industrial Officer and two Murdoch Guild staff members, were able to keep members in the loop throughout the entire process.
Staff and students at James Cook University (JCU) in Townsville and Cairns have refused to accept course and job cuts proposed by the university鈥檚 management.
The highlight of the campaign was a 120-strong student-led rally on April 30 at the Cairns campus, the largest student protest action in more than a decade at JCU. Students also joined the community protests called by the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) branch on April 27.
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The event has been running since 2000, each year raising a significant amount to contribute to the annual 91自拍论坛 Weekly Fighting Fund.
More than 50 people attended the annual May Day Dinner held in Geelong on May 5. Speakers at the dinner included Maritime Union of Australia women鈥檚 liaison officer Mich-Elle Myers and Victorian Allied Health Professionals Association secretary Craig McGregor. Former Secretary of Geelong Trades Hall Council (GTHC) Tim Gooden also gave a toast to 91自拍论坛 Weekly.
91自拍论坛 Weekly asked Myers and McGregor, as well as current GTHC secretary Colin Vernon, why it is important to celebrate May Day.
May Day this year, held on May 6 in Sydney, was the strongest, most powerful and largest May Day I have marched in for years.
I joined with dozens of union contingents comprising thousands of workers in Sydney, chanting 鈥淭he workers united will never be defeated鈥 and 鈥淲hat do we want? The right to strike.鈥
The Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) has warned that a review of the Australian Public Service (APS) will fail if the federal government uses it to continue to promote its damaging neoliberal ideology and refuses to make significant policy changes that benefit all Australians.
Hundreds of people took part in a union rally to support a fair enterprise agreement at the University of Queensland on May 10. The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) organised the industrial action in support of it's campaign.
NTEU branch president Andrew Bonnell told the rally that this was his fourth experience in negotiating an enterprise agreement at UQ and that it was "getting harder" to reach a resolution due to management intransigence.
More than 60 unionists and supporters of the labour movement met after the Sydney May Day march on May 6 to discuss the next steps of the Right to Strike campaign.
The meeting, which built on the success of a previous meeting held on April 14, called for the critical addition of the right to strike as a core demand of the Australian Council of Trade Unions' (ACTU) Change the Rules campaign.
In a dawn raid on May 4, about 20 police descended on protesters, who had set up tents on the lawn in front of Hobart鈥檚 Parliament House to protest the state government鈥檚 lack of response to Hobart鈥檚 housing crisis, and ordered them to move on.
In the biggest union mobilisation in Australia in more than a decade, up to 120,000 unionists and supporters descended on the streets of Melbourne on May 9.
The protest was organised as part of the Change the Rules campaign. The rally followed a mass delegates meeting in April and was the conclusion of nearly a fortnight of union actions across the country to launch the campaign.
Fremantle had its largest May Day in years on May 6 as thousands of people marched to Change the Rules.
Thousands of people took part in Melbourne's May Day march as part of the Change the Rules campagin.
The Refugee Action Coalition (RAC) released this statement on May 7.
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Refugee advocates have serious fears for the welfare of Omid, a 24-year-old Iranian refugee from Nauru, who has been on hunger strike for more than 30 days.
His condition has significantly deteriorated since he was hospitalised a couple of weeks ago. He has reached a critical stage in the hunger strike with growing concerns that he may have already suffered some long-term damage to his health.
Thousands of people marched through Sydney on May 6 as part of the Change the Rules campagin.
The federal government reached an agreement with the Labor opposition to pass amendments to the Murray-Darling Basin Plan (MDBP) on May 8, effectively ensuring less water will flow to the environment in the southern basin.
The deal sidelined negotiations with cross-bench Senators and scuttled a move by the Greens to request a disallowance motion for the vote because of environmental concerns.
Just a week before Sydney University Postgraduate Representative Association (SUPRA) held their annual Council elections on April 26 and 27, the out-going co-presidents Mariam Mohammed and Kiriti Mortha called on Sydney University management to investigate the "governance structure" of SUPRA, alleging there was a "toxic" culture on the council.
The NSW Coalition government鈥檚 long anticipated Koala Strategy, which was released on May 6, has been condemned as inadequate and doomed to fail by conservation groups, which say it ignores the key threat of habitat loss.
How did Murray Goulburn, once Australia鈥檚 biggest milk processor and a successful dairy cooperative since 1950, end up being sold to its international competitor, Canadian dairy giant Saputo? In the second of this multi-part series, Elena Garcia provides some answers.
The wealthy and corporations got a visit from Santa Claus, but the rest of us got Scrooged again on Budget night.
A windfall in tax income 鈥 derived in part from higher than expected royalties and corporate taxes in the mining sector, owing to higher prices for iron ore, coal and oil 鈥 provided ideal conditions for the government鈥檚 pre-election budget.
There was never a chance that Treasurer Scott Morrison would use this windfall to boost social spending 鈥 that just wouldn鈥檛 accord with the Malcolm Turnbull government鈥檚 鈥渢rickle down鈥 economics.
Since the project was first proposed in October 2010, Adani鈥檚 Carmichael coalmine, rail and port project has generated opposition, initially from local resident and conservation groups.
The Carmichael project is one of several of mines proposed for the Galilee Basin. GVK Hancock (Gina Rinehart鈥檚 joint venture with Indian company GVK) proposed Alpha Coal in September 2008 and Kevin鈥檚 Corner in August 2009. Clive Palmer applied for approval for Waratah Coal in October 2008.听
Emma Wilde Botta听looks at US President Donald Trump鈥檚 latest effort to 鈥渂reak the regime鈥 in Iran 鈥 by renouncing the nuclear deal negotiated by his predecessor.
Donald Trump鈥檚 announcement that the US will withdraw from the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran and reimpose economic sanctions will intensify geopolitical conflicts in the region. It threatens to spark a wider war, engulfing the region and possibly the world.
Palestinians in Gaza have defied deadly Israeli repression to continue their Great March of Return protests into their sixth week, writes Lisa Gleeson.
Protracted restrictions on the human rights to freedom of expression, assembly and association are incompatible with the conduct of a credible electoral process in Turkey, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra鈥檃d Al Hussein said on May 9.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo臒an said in a May 8 speech: 鈥淚f one day our nation says tamam (enough), only then will we step aside.鈥 In response, millions of people posted tweets featuring the word 鈥渢amam鈥.
There were more than 1.8 million posts including the word 鈥渢amam鈥, while different versions/spellings of the word were also popular. The hashtag #devam (鈥渃ontinue鈥) started by pro-Erdo臒an groups immediately after lagged behind at 300,000 posts.
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The leader of the mass protest movement that brought down Armenia鈥檚 right-wing government has been elected by parliament as the new prime minister. Hovhannes Gevorkian looks at how this happened 鈥 and what the near future might hold.
A new round of United States sanctions against Venezuela, this time directed against three individuals and their businesses, was rebuffed on May 7 by Samuel Moncada, the Bolivarian Republic鈥檚 Vice Minister for Foreign Relations.
Campaigning is well underway for Venezuela鈥檚 May 20 national vote to elect the nation鈥檚 president and representatives to municipal councils and state legislatures. To get a sense of the campaign and situation in the South American country today, Federico Fuentes spoke to Australia Venezuela Solidarity Network (AVSN) Brisbane co-convenor Eulalia Reyes de Whitney, who has been back in her home country for the past several months.
United States President Donald Trump regularly professes deep concern for democracy and human rights in Latin America, but the US鈥檚 attitude to Honduras highlights the hypocrisy of US policy in practice.听
The council election result in Kensington and Chelsea, as part of England鈥檚 council elections on May 3, was a good indicator of how polarised the political situation is in Britain,听writes Andy Stowe.
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr on April 4, 1968.
The murder of one of the great Black leaders of the time by white racists with the complicity of the US government, most likely the FBI, stunned all African Americans in the country.
With growing concern over the possibility of a trade war between China and the United States, Marty Hart-Landsberg takes a look at the issues at stake.
John McDonnell, Labour's shadow chancellor of the Exchequer,听declared Marxism a 鈥渇orce for change today鈥 as he addressed the closing session of a conference in London marking Karl Marx鈥檚 200th birthday on May 5.
McDonnell, a close comrade of Labour's socialist leader Jeremy Corbyn, received stormy applause for a speech in which he paid tribute to the revolutionary thinker and noted that public interest in his ideas had soared since the bankers鈥 crash of 2008.
British听team听Leeds United FC is under fire after announcing late last month plans to tour听Myanmar听despite the mounting allegations of human rights abuses and 鈥渆thnic cleansing鈥 in the country.
The club revealed its two final post-season games would be in the Myanmar cities of听Yangon听and听Mandalay. The tour will be听sponsored by a bank that has been linked to the government and, consequently, the hundreds of thousands human rights听abuses reported by refugee听Rohingya听Muslims.
A group of young听Palestinians听in听Gaza听has founded 鈥淭he Crutches鈥:听the first听football (soccer) team听for听amputees听injured during the last three听Israeli听attacks on the besieged territory.
Palestinian civil society groups have accused听Giro d鈥橧talia听cycling race, which started its first leg听in Israel on May 4, of covering up Israel鈥檚 war crimes in Gaza and its secret police鈥檚 repression against Giro protests, said Kerry Smith.
