聯The Australian Labor Party under Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard has ceased to be a party that in any serious way can be said to represent the interests of working people in Australia聰, Socialist Alliance national coordinator Dick Nichols said on August 28.
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For nearly seven years, the Sandon Point Aboriginal Tent Embassy has guarded the Kuradji man burial site, artefacts and middens at Sandon Point at the bottom of Bulli Pass, in the northern Illawarra. Planning minister Frank Sartor, using recently legislated powers, has given approval to Stockland and the Anglican Retirement Village Trust for a huge development the size of a suburb on the site.
Three-metre high security fences, heart-stopping tasers, a bone-smashing water cannon, mobile prison buses and 鈥 perhaps most disturbing of all 鈥 the threat of automatic incarceration for randomly abducted protesters? Welcome to the growing international phenomenon of 鈥減opulation control鈥. The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum is in Sydney, and NSW security chiefs are telling you to follow orders, shut up and stay away. Prison cells are ready and waiting if you fail to heed the warning.
On August 28, 100 people met at the Newcastle Town Hall to protest against the Newcastle City Council聮s proposal to close Mayfield聮s public swimming pool.
Established in December 2001, the Victorian Institute of Teaching (VIT) was set up with the stated aim of regulating and promoting the teaching profession in Victoria.
The lead singer of rock band U2, 聯Sir聰 Bono, was awarded his honourary Knighthood Commander of the Order of the British Empire in March. In an example of the power of the corporate media to paint black as white, the multi-millionaire Bono has somehow gotten a reputation as a progressive social activist, standing up for the downtrodden of the world.
Michael Barker鈥檚 reply (鈥淧romoting 鈥檇emocracy鈥 through civil disobedience鈥, GLW #722) to a letter-to-the-editor by Jack DuVall (GLW #718, online edition) contains some serious factual errors and misleading comments regarding the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC), for which I serve as chair of the board of academic advisers.
Victorian Trades Hall Council secretary Brian Boyd spoke to 麻豆传媒 Weekly鈥檚 Sue Bolton on August 20 about some Victorian unions鈥 plans for another mass mobilisation against the Work Choices legislation.
On August 30, the Tasmanian parliament approved an operating permit for Gunns Ltd聮s proposed $2 billion Tamar Valley pulp mill. The independents-dominated upper house voted by 10 votes to four to allow the mill to go ahead.
I walked with Roberto Navarrete into the national stadium in Santiago, Chile. With the southern winter鈥檚 wind skating down from the Andes, it was empty and ghostly. Little had changed, he said: the chicken wire, the broken seats, the tunnel to the changing rooms from which the screams echoed. We stopped at a large number 28. 鈥淭his is where I was, facing the scoreboard. This is where I was called to be tortured.鈥
Operation Banner, a 38-year British military operation in the north of Ireland, formally came to a close on July 31. The operation began in 1969, when British troops were deployed in the six counties that make up the sectarian state of Northern Ireland to support the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC), which was unable to maintain 鈥減ublic order鈥 in the face of the explosion of the civil rights movement. The RUC had also been thoroughly discredited among the Catholic and nationalist communities for its role in facilitating sectarian pogroms against them.
The following open letter to federal ALP leader Kevin Rudd and ALP industrial relations spokesperson Julia Gillard was issue on August 29 by Michele O聮Neil, national assistant secretary of the Textile, Clothing and Footwear Union of Australia (TCFUA).
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