The Australian Nursing Federation (ANF) has conducted mass meetings around Tasmania to vote on whether to accept the state Labor government鈥檚 offer of a 3.5% annual pay rise over the next three years or step-up industrial action.
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On October 31, some 70 Wollongong TAFE teachers stopped work in support of students facing massive fee increases. The stopwork meeting condemned both federal and state governments for under-funding TAFE and shifting the cost of quality vocational education onto students. The teachers also expressed disgust at the Howard government for finding a 鈥渓azy鈥 $2 billion to support the duplication of TAFE with the new Australian Technical Colleges (ATCs).
An official from ousted president Jean Bertrand Aristide聮s Lavalas political movement was abducted at gunpoint on October 27. Dr Maryse Narcisse acted as spokesperson for exiled president and belongs to the five-member executive committee of Fanmi Lavalas. She was taken in front of her home in the area of Petion-Ville in Haiti聮s capital.
A report in the October 29 Brisbane Courier Mail signalled that the Queensland state Labor government may finally legislate to decriminalise abortion. But not immediately 鈥 perhaps in 18 months time, well after the federal elections are over. Labor MP for Aspley, Bonny Barry, has been reported as preparing a private member鈥檚 bill to remove abortion from the criminal code. Premier Anna Bligh has said she will support it, but has no intention of introducing a bill.
A divided Sydney City Council on October 29 renewed News Corps鈥 contentious newspaper distribution license with the Lord Mayor Clover Moore's Community Independent Team split down the middle.
聯America聮s hostile policy to the Iranian people and the country聮s legal institutions are against international law. They are worthless and ineffective, and doomed to failure聰, Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson Mohammad Ali Hosseini told a media conference in Tehran on October 25.
Organisers of the Footscray Racism No Festival have joined forces with the March for Multiculturalism to stage a 聯Big Day Out Against Racism聰 on November 17. The day will start with a street march beginning at 1pm at the State Library and participants will then be asked to make their way to the festival in Footscray, starting at 4pm at the Footscray Primary School.
On November 1, 50 people rallied in Hyde Park to protest the Australian Federal Police鈥檚 (AFP) role in training the Burmese police force. The rally was called by the Australian Coalition for Democracy in Burma.
Chile, that thin strip of land lulled to sleep by the Pacific and the Andes, has given birth to many people that have left their mark in the hearts of millions all across the planet: the Nobel Prize winners Gabriela Mistral and Pablo Neruda, the amazing composer Victor Jara, tortured and assassinated by Pinochet, our comrade Salvador Allende 鈥 and one of the greatest exponents of Chilean music, Violeta Parra.
The Big Melt is a new report from Australian climate campaigner David Spratt of Carbon Equity. It warns that the latest data shows the effects of climate change are speeding up, with real dangers of the setting in of self-perpetuating, deepening 鈥渞unaway鈥 global warming.
On October 27, the NSW Teachers Federation (NSWTF) state council unanimously voted to 鈥渃all upon Unions NSW to organise a Day of Union and Community Action to repeal all of Work Choices鈥 for May 1 next year and to make it 鈥渢he first of an ongoing series of actions to force the incoming federal government to repeal the anti-worker legislation in its entirety鈥.
Who Is The Right To Know
Macarena Ruiz, artist
Trocadero Artspace, level 1, 119 Hopkins Street, Footscray
November 7-24
Macarena Ruiz, artist
Trocadero Artspace, level 1, 119 Hopkins Street, Footscray
November 7-24
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