Justice and Freedom for Ceylon Tamils is a human rights action group based in Melbourne. It was formed in 2007. A spokesperson for the group, Nagamuthu Wickiramasingham, told 麻豆传媒 Weekly that Tamil refugees had good reason to flee the brutal Sri Lankan regime by boat.
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The following abridged statement was released on October 29 by Aboriginal people from Northern Territory communities targeted by the federal government鈥檚 NT Emergency Response laws.
The Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO) 鈥 the new name for the Howard government-established Workplace Ombudsman 鈥 has launched its first prosecution against a union for 鈥渦nlawful鈥 industrial action.
On October 26, 150 people rallied at Federation Square to demand the Australian government accept the 78 Sri Lankans asylum seekers currently moored off Indonesia鈥檚 Riau Islands.
The Scourge of Termite-ists
By Allan Scarfe
Seaview Press, 2009
260 pages, $22.95
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SYDNEY 鈥 Teachers at the Sydney Institute of TAFE held a wildcat strike on October 29 after the Industrial Relations Commission (IRC) ruled teachers must sacrifice work conditions in return for a 12.5% wage rise over three years.
The fatal explosion on board a boat carrying 47 Afghan refugees in April created a storm of controversy in Australian politics and the media.
While two boat loads of Tamil refugees fleeing Sri Lanka push their case to be admitted into Australia, two reports on Sri Lankan atrocities against Tamils have been released without a word from the Australian media or government.
The revered Argentinean matriarch of protest music, Mercedes Sosa, died in Buenos Aires on October 4. She was 74.
Admit it: you鈥檙e just a little disturbed when industrialists, fossil-fuel lobbyists and the Liberal and National parties thunder that big, quick cuts to carbon emissions would bankrupt Australian business. Well, aren鈥檛 you?
Every time capitalist politicians play with racist prejudice against asylum seekers, there are violent consequences. I'm not just referring to the threatened forceful disembarkation of the Tamil refugees from the Oceanic Viking, which is outrageous. The bipartisan anti-asylum seeker rhetoric in Canberra is also very likely provoking more racist violence across Australia.
October 30 was a national day of action in support of South Australian building worker Ark Tribe.
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