The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) is planning industrial action at most Victorian universities on May 21.
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On April 28, the Greens on Campus and the Law Students Society hosted a forum on the University of Melbourne with Greens Senator Bob Brown.
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NEWCASTLE聴 One hundred people rallied outside the Newcastle Council Chamber on April 29 to show support for the Loft, a Council-sponsored youth venue.
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After Israel鈥檚 December-January military assault on Gaza, the global boycott campaign against Israel is starting to have an impact.
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SYDNEY聴 On May 1, 100 people gathered inside NSW Parliament House for a meeting to discuss the need for abortion law reform in New South Wales.
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The following open letter is to Tasmanian federal Labor MP Duncan Kerr, from Resistance.
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Anti-desalination campaign group Watershed has called a protest for May 9 at the site of the proposed desalination plant in Wonthaggi, Victoria. The slogan of the protest will be, 鈥淚f they build it, we all will pay!鈥
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SYDNEY鈥 On April 24, more than 30 organisers and officials from the NSW Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) heard a presentation on the Palestinian resistance and the growing movement for boycotts, divestments from and sanctions against Israel (BDS). The presentation was given by activists from BDS Sydney and the Gaza Defence Committee.
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Construction company John Holland and unions are locked in discussions to settle a nine-week-long industrial dispute.
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Despite the economic crisis, the Australian government has announced it will increase military spending by billions of dollars over the next 20 years.
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More than 50 people gathered outside the Mercure Hotel in Hobart on April 30 where Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and state premiers met for the Council of Australian Governments forum.
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More than 300 people marched for May Day in Wollongong on May 2. The lead banner read: 聯People before Profits; Export CEOs not Jobs!聰. There were many different union and community contingents.
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The speech below was made by Darren Vanderkaay at a solidarity picnic on April 26 at Melbourne聮s Yarraville Gardens. The picnic was hosted by the Western Suburbs Community and Unions Coalition. Darren is one of 39 workers unfairly sacked from the West Gate Bridge strengthening project by construction company John Holland.
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For more than 100 years the WA seat of Fremantle has been safe Labor territory. Now, the May 16 state by-election for the seat is tipped to be a neck-and-neck race between ALP candidate Peter Tagliaferri and Adele Carles from the Greens.
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Mine workers under surveillance BHP-Billiton Mount Arthur Coal have just recently been found to have acted unlawfully by installing GPS tracking devices into 2 fuel trucks at the Mt Arthur Coal mine near Muswellbrook in the Hunter Valley. When
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The Kimberley Land Council has made a controversial in-principle agreement with Woodside Petroleum and the federal and WA state governments to develop a liquefied natural gas project at James Price Point near Broome.
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The article below is based on an April 30 statement by the Stop the War Coalition Sydney .
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On April 29, PM Kevin Rudd announced an extra 450 troops would be sent to Afghanistan to participate in the latest US-led 鈥渟urge鈥.
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The government and most of the mainstream media want Australia to believe we are facing a 鈥渟urge鈥 of asylum seekers, threatening Australian borders as they arrive in dangerous and non-seaworthy boats.
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Thousands of workers across the country rallied on April 28, including more that 15,000 in Melbourne. The rallies protested the Rudd government聮s maintenance of the anti-union Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC), which was established by the previous government of John Howard.
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91自拍论坛 Weekly spoke to Fremantle by-election candidates Adele Carles (WA Greens) and Sam Wainwright (Socialist Alliance) to ask what they hoped to achieve through their election campaigns
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Ironically, it was the first of May 鈥 workers鈥 day 鈥 and we were protesting against privatisation outside the NSW Labor Party offices.
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The ninth Australian solidarity brigade to Venezuela, sponsored by the Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network (AVSN), visited Venezuela from April 16 to 24. Participants saw first-hand the reality of the Bolivarian revolution, led by socialist president Hugo Chavez.
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In an act of peaceful civil disobedience, more than 500 Tamils occupied George Street in Sydney鈥檚 CBD for more than an hour. The May 1 action protested the genocide being carried out by the Sri Lankan government against the Tamil people in the north and east of the country.
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On April 4, 2008, federal workplace minister Julia Gillard announced a review into occupational health and safety (OH&S) laws. The government said the review was aimed at harmonising OH&S laws across Australia.
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On March 21, Anna Bligh鈥檚 election victory night, she answered a question from a journalist about how it felt to be the first female premier to be elected in Australia. She suggested the snide remarks made when she was a young woman, about Queensland being a 鈥渂ackward鈥 state, could now be laid to rest.
World
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This is a video explaining the current situation in Nepal and providing a glimpse into the mass resistance on the streets to the elite鈥檚 "soft coup" to bring down the Maoist-led elected government
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Statement by the Democratic Socialist Perspective, May 5, 2009.
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Arturo Villanueva Arteaga, a 32-year-old Basque activist who has lived in west Belfast for four years, was arrested in a raid on April 21.
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I recently spent a week talking to people in Rolpa, an especially underdeveloped hilly district in Nepal鈥檚 mid-western region.
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Ecuador鈥檚 left-wing President Rafael Correa was re-elected on April 27 in the small Andean nation.
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A largely defenceless people struggling to survive and hemmed in on a narrow strip of land, facing indiscriminate airstrikes, assault from gun boats and cluster bombs by a well-equipped army, conjures up the image of the recent Israeli invasion of Palestine鈥檚 Gaza Strip.
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Responding to US president Barack Obama鈥檚 for Cuba to free so-called dissidents in Cuban jails, Cuban President Raul Castro said on April 16: 鈥淲hy do they not release our five heroes, young heroic men who never inflicted any harm on the United States?鈥
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Confronted by the global economic crisis and a sharp drop in oil prices, the Venezuelan government has launched an offensive against corruption as part of its austerity drive.
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鈥淪ince April 9, an uprising has been occurring in the Peruvian countryside involving the Amazonian indigenous peoples from 1350 communities and a diversity of ethnicities鈥, said legendary peasant leader, Hugo Blanco in an important message. A translation of Blanco鈥檚 appeal for solidarity with this so-far mostly unreported struggle is printed below.
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Streets that bustled only two weeks ago are eerily quiet.
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The hordes of US students on spring break returned from Cancun this year with an invisible but sinister souvenir.
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Seven activists associated with Israeli anti-military recruitment groups New Profile and Target 21 have been arrested in the latest attack on internal dissent in Israel, 贬补鈥檃谤别迟锄 said on April 27.
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On April 29, Prime Minster Kevin Rudd鈥檚 government announced the deployment of 450 extra soldiers to Afghanistan, bringing the Australian contingent to 1550. This is part of an overall increase in foreign troops taking part in the US-led occupation.
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The same day that Venezuela announced the withdrawal of its ambassador from Peru, a Palestinian Authority (PA) embassy was inaugurated in Caracas as the two governments officially opened diplomatic relations.
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The nightmarish prospect of a scarred Amazonian jungle reeking of diesel fumes from end to end, as heavy-laden trucks thunder by in round-the-clock convoys, is fast becoming a reality.
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鈥淭his is a historic day for Bolivia and Paraguay, a time of peace and friendship, of solidarity among peoples鈥, Bolivian president Evo Morales said on April 28. He had just received the Final Memory report, bringing to an official end a 74-year border dispute between the respective republics.
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Many people still speak sincerely about the existence of 鈥渃orporate responsibility鈥. While doing volunteer work in the Ecuadorian community of Junin, I got a different picture.
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The 2009 South African general election turned out to be a landmark event for the African National Congress (ANC). The party faced some of its stiffest competition and still came out tops, despite a dismal 15-year delivery record.
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The article below is abridged from .
Culture
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Papalote will be touring NSW this month. Musica Viva聮s CountryWide has offered this renowned group shows in Cobar, Brewerina, Lighting Ridge and Warren.
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Torture Team 鈥 Deception, Cruelty & the Compromise of Law. Philippe Sands. Allen Lane, Penguin. New York. 2008.
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Darwin聮s Sacred Cause: Race, Slavery & the Quest for Human Origins
By Adrian Desmond & James Moore
Allen Lane, 2009
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Papalote will be touring NSW this month. Musica Viva聮s CountryWide has offered this renowned group shows in Cobar, Brewerina, Lighting Ridge and Warren.