Australia
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
January 3, 2009
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
Australia: Thousands rally against Israeli Gaza attacks
By our reporters, December 31, 2008
About 3,000 people demonstrated in central Melbourne yesterday against the Israeli military’s bombardment of the Palestinian people in Gaza.
Australia: Haneef “terrorism” inquiry produces a whitewash
By Mike Head, December 29, 2008
The Rudd government’s Clarke review of last year’s terrorist witch-hunt of Dr Mohamed Haneef is a whitewash of the former Howard government and a vehicle for bolstering the country’s draconian c...
Australia: Growing opposition to Labor’s Internet censorship
By our reporters, December 27, 2008
More than 2,000 opponents of the federal Labor government’s plans to censor the Internet rallied in cities across Australia on December 13—the second national protest in the past two months.
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
December 27, 2008
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
Australia: Hundreds of jobs to be axed as childcare centres close
By Alex Messenger, December 22, 2008
Hundreds of Australian childcare employees, some of the poorest paid workers in the country, will lose their jobs in the coming months with the $1.6 billion collapse of childcare provider ABC Learning...
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
December 20, 2008
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
Baz Luhrmann’s Australia: a superficial jumble
By Richard Phillips, December 18, 2008
Luhrmann’s $A190 million movie—the most expensive in Australian film history—is a syrupy and patronising mish-mash.
Australia: Police gun down 15-year-old boy
By Katrina Morrison, December 17, 2008
Fifteen-year-old Tyler Cassidy was shot dead by police officers in Melbourne, Victoria last Thursday night in a callous and brutal act. Four officers surrounded the agitated youth at a skate park in t...
Australia: Big business and unions line up behind Labor’s “fair work” laws
By Terry Cook, December 9, 2008
Business, unions and the federal Opposition have all endorsed the Rudd government’s Fair Work Bill, which went before parliament last week after nearly a year of “fine tuning” to satisfy corpora...
Australia: The DSP split and Socialist Alliance—another opportunist debacle
By Laura Tiernan, December 6, 2008
Six months after a devastating split in the Democratic Socialist Perspective, the 6th national conference of Socialist Alliance this weekend will provide further proof of the crisis gripping the DSP a...
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
November 22, 2008
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