As the horror of Israel聮s recent attacks on Gaza spread, UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon could only describe Israel聮s rocket launches as 聯an excessive use of force聰. By contrast, he described a Palestinian homemade rocket, which killed two Israeli soldiers and one civilian, as a 聯terrorist聰 act.
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Centrelink is to cut about 2000 of its 27,000 staff over the next financial year as part of new cost-cutting measures by PM Kevin Rudd聮s Labor government.
It has to be one of the most unbelievable stories of the century: New Idea, a magazine that trades on gossip about royals and other celebrities, is blamed for exposing Prince Harry鈥檚 deployment in the British military intervention in Afghanistan. It is about as believable as the plot of Mark Twain鈥檚 The Prince and the Pauper, in which a young prince swaps places with a street lad to see what life is like in 鈥淧aupersville鈥.
Over 4000 Victorian Independent Education Union (VIEU) members from Catholic schools stopped work for 24 hours on March 7 in support of their enterprise bargaining agreement.
The April 11-13 Climate Change/Social Change conference being organised in Sydney by 麻豆传媒 Weekly aims to promote recognition that radical social change is necessary to solve the global climate crisis. This is a crisis that at threatens to make the Earth uninhabitable for the vast majority of humans and other species.
Over 70% of long-day childcare services in Australia are delivered by business, according to Professor Deborah Brennan of the University of NSW聮s Social Policy Research Centre, writing in the February 29 Melbourne Age.
On March 6, a rally was held to commemorate the International Day of Tribute for the Victims of Human Rights Abuses. This international day of action was called by the Colombian National Movement for Victims of the State. Around 40 people gathered on the steps of Parliament House in support of the victims of paramilitarism, demanding a just, fair and free Colombia and an end to state terrorism.
Mothers Against Genetic Engineering (MAdGE) and the Gene Ethics Network launched a campaign on February 28 for local councils in Victoria to declare themselves genetically manipulated (GM) food-free zones. The campaign, launched at a protest rally on the steps of the state parliament, is in response to the Premier John Brumby聮s decision to end Victoria聮s ban on GM canola on February 29.
As the Iraq war approaches its fifth anniversary on March 20th, it is important to remember why the war was started. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989 the US has looked to find new ways to justify its military interventions in order to increase economic prosperity and further expand its empire.
Contrary to federal government rhetoric, research conducted into the new Labor government聮s Forward with Fairness transitional bill has revealed that Australian Workplace Agreements (AWAs 聴 individual contracts), or their replacement clones, the Interim Transitional Employment Agreements (ITEAs), could continue well beyond 2010.
SYDNEY 聴 The Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) organised a community rally outside the Sombreros Mexican restaurant in the beachside suburb of Cronulla on March 7. The rally was to protest the sacking of chef Basilo Reyes for taking time off to have a cancer removed.
Poverty is a dominant feature of life for many university students. Statistics from Melbourne University show that living expenses (excluding course fees) for a student in share accommodation amount annually to around $25,000. Most students must work at least one job to supplement the meagre government-provided youth allowance, which, if paid at the maximum rate of $425 per fortnight, amounts to just $11,050 per annum.
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