More than 2500 TAFE teachers filled Sydney Town Hall on February 11 during a 24-hour strike. The action was in response to New South Wales government attacks on TAFE teachers and the delivery of quality education.
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In October, when Ampilatwatja walk-off spokesperson Richard Downs toured the eastern states with Yuendumu elder Uncle Harry Nelson, they explained how their protest camp would demonstrate that Aboriginal people running their own affairs could build the type of sustainable community that the Northern Territory intervention, like past assimilationist and paternalistic policies, had failed to deliver.
鈥淕overnments making new laws all of the time
Try to tell 'em that being young's not a crime鈥 鈥 Area 7
Forty-five people attended a Womens Action Abortion Coalition (WAAC) forum on February 6. They discussed the need to reanimate the campaign for women鈥檚 right to control their own fertility, in the wake of the charging of a Cairns couple in April 2009 for using the abortifacient, RU486.
The spectre of the locally powerful woodchipping corporation Gunns and its relationship with the government hangs over the impending state election like a murky cloud. This is despite construction of Gunns鈥 proposed pulp mill remaining stalled, due to public pressure and its inability to raise finance.
The December 7-18 United Nations climate conference in Copenhagen was supposed to 鈥渟eal a global deal鈥 to tackle climate change. It failed miserably.
On February 1, NSW premier Kristina Keneally announced changes to public transport fares and ticketing at a Parramatta railway station press conference.
Dwarfing recent opposition protests, more than 100,000 supporters of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez marched in Caracas on February 4 in defence of the government and to celebrate 18 years since Chavez led a failed civilian-military uprising against a corrupt government in 1992.
The statement published below has been signed by the Working People鈥檚 Association (Indonesia); Confederation Congress of Indonesia Union Alliance; the Singapore Democratic Party; the Socialist Party of Malaysia; Socialist Alternative (Australia); Socialist Alliance (Australia); and Socialist Worker New Zealand. If your organisation wants to sign this joint statement, email international@prp-indonesia.org.
US National Director of Intelligence Admiral Dennis Blair presented the 鈥渁nnual threat assessment鈥 before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on February 2
There has been much ink spilled in the corporate press about the number of dollars and soldiers being committed to Haiti by 鈥渢he international community鈥, but as a January 20 US ABC News headline bluntly put it: 鈥淚n rebuilding Haiti, opportunity knocks and companies profit.鈥
A Nielsen poll published in the February 8 Sydney Morning Herald showed a sharp drop of support for Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's key climate change policy, the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS).
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