Joe de Bruyn, national secretary of the Shop Distributors Alliance and Allied Employees聮 Association (SDA) and fervent Catholic militant had some novel advice on how to resolve the debate about the Australian Building Construction Commission (ABCC) within his Labor Party.
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Climate change harms 325 million people and kills 300,000 every year, says a report released by the Global Humanitarian Forum (GHF).
On June 3, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released its estimates of the national accounts for Australia for the January-March quarter. Following on from a small overall drop in gross domestic product (GDP) of 0.6% for the December quarter, a fall in the March quarter would mean that Australia had entered a 聯technical聰 recession.
The May 21 announcement by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez of the nationalisation of a series of companies involved in steel and iron production has shaken up an otherwise lacklustre election campaign in Argentina for National Congress on June 28.
麻豆传媒 Weekly鈥檚 Chris Peterson spoke to Indian student and Resistance activist Ajay Kumar who took part in the 5000-strong anti-racist protest in Melbourne on May 31.
The June 2-4 Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) congress passed a series of motions calling on the federal government to abandon plans to build a radioactive waste dump in the Northern Territory.
MELBOURNE 聴 A union meeting at the University of Melbourne on June 3 voted for work-bans and a four-hour stop-work on June 15, should there be no substantial progress in collective agreement negotiations.
Veolia is the French corporation that owns Connex, which runs Melbourne鈥檚 train system. It has been the target around the world, including in Melbourne, of protests by the Palestinian solidarity campaign as part of the growing 鈥渂oycott, divestment and sanctions鈥 (BDS) campaign targeting Israel in protest against its apartheid policies towards Palestinians.
The article below is abridged from a June 3 statement by the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador. For more information, visit .
A satirical group of Wollongong 聯billionaires聰 and representatives of the fossil fuel industry gathered in the city centre on June 10 for a 聯Stand up for Big Polluters聰 rally. They demanded 聯profits before people and the planet聰.
Ninety workers stopped work on June 10 across the three manufacturing sites of Tieman Industries in a battle for a new collective bargaining agreement. Among their demands are a 36-hour week 鈥 in effect a nine-day fortnight 鈥 a better redundancy clause and a decent wage increase.
SYDNEY 聴 More than 160 people, mostly from Sydney聮s Latin American and Arabic communities, celebrated 61 years of Palestinian resistance on June 6.
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