The Victorian Labor Party has gone on a propaganda offensive against the Greens, accusing them of selling out on nuclear issues and taking away Victorians聮 right to protest against nuclear reactors. Large posters have been put up and pamphlets will be sent to households in the four lower-house seats where the Greens pose the most direct challenge to the ALP.
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Australia聮s highest-paid boss, Macquarie Bank chief executive officer Allan Moss, has pocketed a 57% pay rise, now taking home more than double an average worker聮s yearly wage for one day at the office. In a day, he earns more than most workers get in a year.
The 1967 referendum on Aboriginal rights 聴 in which more than 90% voted in favour of including Aboriginal people in the census and giving the federal government the power to override racist state laws and legislate for Aboriginal people 聴 has 聯enormous importance for Aboriginal people and our struggle聰, Queensland Indigenous leader Sam Watson told 91自拍论坛 Weekly.
Some 250 people heard from Terry Hicks, father of former Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks, at a May 19 public meeting organised by the Stop the War Coalition. The meeting was also addressed by academic Tim Anderson, Omar Merhi (brother of one of the Muslim men being held in Barwon Prison accused of being terrorists) and STWC聮s Anna Samson. Responding to a suggestion at a media conference before the meeting that one of Australia聮s 聭most notorious criminals聮 would soon be coming home from Guantanamo, Terry Hicks commented that one of Australia聮s most notorious criminals would soon be 聭dis-elected聮.
On May 17, a candlelight vigil was held in in Taylor Square to mark International Day Against Homophobia. The vigil was organised by the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ) Network of Amnesty International and Community Action Against Homophobia (CAAH) and called for the immediate release of Ali Humayun, a gay refugee from Pakistan who has been held in the Villawood immigration detention centre for more than two years.
May 27 marks the 40th anniversary of the overwhelming victory of the 1967 referendum, in which almost 91% of the Australian people voted to give the federal government the constitutional power to override the brutal, degrading racist laws of the states under which Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders were tormented.
On May 12, federal opposition leader Kevin Rudd chartered a private plane to fly to Western Australia to meet with BHP, Rio Tinto and Woodside bosses. The meeting followed two weeks of the mining bosses arguing that Labor鈥檚 promise to abolish AWAs (individual contracts), confirmed at its April national conference, would harm the resources boom and lower productivity in the mining sector.
Carora聮s streets are much like other Latin American cities 聴 bustling commerce on every corner, traffic, noise, people going about their daily routine. But there is something that distinguishes Carora and the Municipality of Pedro Leon Torres from any other municipality I聮ve visited in Latin America, and in particular, any other in Venezuela. The city is on a path to democratise and transform its entire governance system, from the bottom up 聴 led by the current Mayor Julio Chavez (no relation to President Hugo Chavez).
On May 12, 60 people marked the anniversary of the deaths in 1981 of 10 Irish republican hunger strikers in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh prison in Northern Ireland, who were fighting for their right to be recognised and treated as political prisoners. The commemoration, held at the Gaelic Club, was organised by the Sydney Cairde (Friends of) Sinn Fein group.
On May 7, the Melbourne Magistrates Court denied bail to two men arrested under 鈥渁nti-terror鈥 laws for raising funds for tsunami relief in the Tamil areas of Sri Lanka.
Australia聮s top silk and civil rights advocate Julian Burnside QC has suggested introducing a law that makes it an offence for politicians to lie. I don聮t know how practical this would be, but imagine if politicians could be forced to tell the truth and 聮fess up like the makers of Ribena?
A group of construction workers in Somerton have proved that it is possible to get off an individual contract (Australian Workplace Agreement 聴 AWA) and onto award rates and an enterprise agreement.
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