There has been intense media speculation on the fate of New South Wales infrastructure plans following the 鈥渄iscovery鈥 of a supposed $20 billion dollar 鈥渂lack hole鈥 in the NSW budget, announced by departing treasurer Michael Costa on September 5.
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The statement below was released on October 8 by Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES). The delegation聮s report can be downloaded at .
After much debate, mounting pressure from the Catholic Church and attempted legislative amendments, the Victorian Abortion Law Reform Bill was passed unamended by the Victorian Upper House on October 10.
Public sector workers across Queensland demonstrated in large numbers on September 30. Public servants are seeking a minimum 5.1% annual pay rise, simply to keep pace with inflation.
The campaign against the jailing of tramways union leader Clarrie O鈥橲hea, in Melbourne in May 1969, for refusing to pay fines imposed under the infamous anti-union penal powers of the time is rich with lessons for today鈥檚 campaign against the Australian Building and Construction Commission鈥檚 (ABCC) witch hunt of construction unionists.
On October 10, 200 people attended 鈥淭his is an emergency: an introduction to the real science of global warming鈥. The public forum was also the official launch of a new environmental organisation in Adelaide, the Climate Emergency Action Network (CLEAN).
An official visit to Australia by Vietnam聮s Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, beginning October 13, is aimed at boosting economic and trade relations between the two countries. Australian companies have direct investment projects worth more than US$1 billion in the country Australia once invaded alongside US forces.
Noel Washington, vice-president of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) Victorian branch, has been charged by the Australian Building and Construction Commissioner with new offences under the Building and Construction Industry Improvement Act.
Ron Guy and Garry Holliday, trade union activists with the Australian Workers鈥 Union (AWU), and Margarita Windisch, a member of the Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA) and Socialist Alliance candidate for the Maribyrnong council elections, will be part of a delegation attending the 6th congress of the Western Saharan trade union UGTSARIO.
On October 8, around 500 workplace delegates and occupational health and safety representatives attended a meeting called by the Victorian Trades Hall Council (VTHC).
Peru聮s entire cabinet tendered their resignations to President Alan Garcia on October 9 in the wake of a corruption scandal involving kickbacks in return for oil contracts.
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