Australia
Australia: Defiant stand by Oceanic Viking refugees triggers political crisis
By Mike Head, November 20, 2009
The refusal by Sri Lankan Tamil refugees to disembark in Indonesia from an Australian Customs vessel, the Oceanic Viking, has triggered an extraordinary political crisis for the Australian Labor gover...
Indonesian police shoot two refugees trying to reach Australia
By Mike Head, November 18, 2009
The real face of the Rudd government’s hoped-for “Indonesian solution” for asylum seekers began to emerge last week. Indonesian police shot and seriously wounded two men trying to reach Australi...
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
November 14, 2009
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
Australia-Sri Lanka deal for joint crackdown on Tamil asylum seekers
By Richard Phillips, November 13, 2009
By reaching a deal with Colombo—that is, with the regime responsible for the oppression of Tamils—the Australian Labor government is legitimising its police state measures and nullifying the basic...
Australia: Julian Moti defence closing submission outlines “oppressive and unfair” prosecution
By Patrick O’Connor, November 10, 2009
Defence counsel for former Solomon Islands’ attorney general Julian Moti issued its closing submission to the Queensland Supreme Court on Friday.
Australia: Qantas aircraft engineers vote for industrial action
By Terry Cook, November 7, 2009
About 190 professional engineers at Qantas voted by 98 percent to take industrial action after seven months of negotiations for a new work agreement failed to resolve issues over pay and working condi...
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
November 7, 2009
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Australia: Latest refugee deaths—the Rudd government’s SIEV X
By Socialist Equality Party (Australia), November 4, 2009
The tragic drowning of 12 Sri Lankan Tamils northwest of the Cocos Islands on Sunday is another grim reminder that the election of the Rudd Labor government in November 2007 has changed nothing for re...
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
October 31, 2009
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
Bridgestone closes plants in Australia and New Zealand
By Terry Cook, October 29, 2009
The Bridgestone closures, which end tyre production in Australasia, are part of a global restructuring of the auto industry, in the wake of the worldwide financial crisis.
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
October 24, 2009
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Australia: Five men convicted of terrorist “conspiracy”
By Mike Head, October 22, 2009
Following one of the longest jury deliberations ever recorded—23 days—five Sydney Islamic men were convicted last week on terrorist “conspiracy” charges.
