聯Given everything that is occurring in Tarija, Santa Cruz, Pando and Beni, we have to denounce 聟 that we are on the threshold of a real coup d聮etat against the constitutional order聰, announced Bolivian minister of the presidency, Ramon Quintana, on August 7.
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South Australian teachers undertook four days of rolling stoppages and community rallies across the state from August 4-7 in an attempt to force the state government to re-negotiate its pay and funding arrangement for public schools and TAFEs. Eighty-three per cent of teachers voted in favour of the stoppages in workplace ballots in late July.
International oil giant Chevron is lobbying the US government to cancel trade deals with Ecuador over a court case where it faces a US$16 billion fine for polluting the Amazonian rainforest.
The Victorian state government is considering far-reaching changes to workers聮 compensation laws.
On August 6, Victoria University of Technology (VUT) hosted a seminar, 鈥淧acific Islands Migration and Labour Mobility: Issues and Responses鈥, which discussed the potential for an unskilled guest worker scheme for Pacific Island workers. Some Pacific nations have called for such program to help alleviate high rates of unemployment.
Hydrologists such as professors Peter Cullen, Richard Kingsford and Derek Eamus, speaking at public forums in NSW earlier this year, warned that Australians are extracting water from stressed rivers and artesian systems faster than it is being replenished.
A bombing that killed five Hamas members and a five-year-old girl on July 25 in the Gaza Strip has escalated tensions in the Occupied Palestinian Territories between the Hamas government in Gaza and the Fatah-controlled Palestinian Authority (PA), based in the West Bank.
The following call to action has been issued by the Adelaide-based Stop the War Fair committee.
The defeat of the Colorado Party (PC) in the April presidential election meant much more than a change of government in Paraguay.
Unionists protested on July 20 in San Francisco against the decision by Californian Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to cut the wages of more than 200,000 state workers to the federal minimum wage of US$6.55 per hour, alleging he must do so because the state legislature has not passed a budget.
A flurry of public meetings followed the federal government聮s green paper on carbon emissions trading. I attended two quite different information sessions in Sydney.
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