Australia and South Pacific
Australian government deports Sri Lankan asylum-seekers
By Richard Phillips, October 12, 2009
In line with the previous Liberal-National coalition administration, the Australian Labor government has begun deporting refugees it claims do not qualify as asylum-seekers.
SEP public meetings in Sydney and Melbourne
Seventy years since World War II: lessons and warnings
October 8, 2009
The SEP/ISSE meetings will discuss the historical lessons of World War II. That terrible conflagration was not inevitable. It was above all the product of the treachery of Social Democracy and Stalini...
The Australian Labor Party and the war in Afghanistan
By Socialist Equality Party (Australia), October 7, 2009
Since its election in November 2007, the Rudd Labor government has escalated Australian military involvement in the Afghan conflict. Just as Afghanistan is now referred to as Obama’s war, so it has ...
Pacific tsunami relief efforts grossly inadequate
By Tom Peters, October 7, 2009
In absolute terms the number of people affected by the tsunami in Samoa, American Samoa and Tonga is small, but, per capita, the level of destruction is enormous.
Australia: The assassination of Michael McGurk and the stench of NSW Labor
By Alex Messenger, October 5, 2009
Revelations arising from the murder of Sydney loan-shark Michael McGurk highlight links between NSW Labor and an underworld of property moguls and violent criminals.
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
October 3, 2009
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
Australia: The political issues facing Victorian paramedics
By Socialist Equality Party (Australia), October 1, 2009
A “no” vote must be the first step towards a coordinated industrial and political campaign mounted in opposition to the grossly inadequate salaries and dangerous working conditions endured by ambu...
Severe dust storm hits Australian coastal cities
By Alex Safari, September 29, 2009
A huge dust storm blanketed large areas of Australia’s southeastern coast last Wednesday, covering cities and towns in the states of New South Wales and Queensland, before moving out to sea towards ...
Australian government lawyers demand Guantánamo compensation case be stopped to protect US alliance
By Richard Phillips, September 29, 2009
The government has intensified its efforts to stop Mamdouh Habib, a 53-year-old Australian citizen and father of four, from suing over its role in his illegal detention and torture in Pakistan, Egypt,...
“Fair Work Australia”: A union-enforced straitjacket on workers
By Mike Head, September 26, 2009
The trade unions are enforcing Labor’s industrial legislation that goes far beyond the previous government’s “Work Choices” laws in prohibiting nearly all strikes.
The Australian media and the Julian Moti case
By Patrick O’Connor, September 24, 2009
The Australian media has imposed an effective blackout on proceedings brought before the Queensland Supreme Court by former Solomon Islands’ Attorney General Julian Moti.
Behind the “day of action”: Australian university union enforces government agenda
By Mike Head, September 22, 2009
The purpose of the limited “day of action” called by the National Tertiary Education Union was to suppress any political struggle against Labor’s agenda, while cementing the union’s place in i...
