The Indigenous Social Justice Association released this statement on February 25.
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The Indigenous Social Justice Association (ISJA), is organising a rally outside the office of the Police Integrity Commission (PIC) in Sydney as part of a national day of action for Justice for Rex Bellotti Jnr.
We will send the message to all Australian police forces that all forms of police brutality must end.
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The campaign against the gas hub at Walmadan (James Price Point) in the Kimberley received a huge boost when about 20,000 people marched through the streets of Fremantle and attended a vibrant and political 鈥淐oncert for the Kimberley鈥 on February 24.
About 10,000 nurses and midwives across Western Australia were threatened with disciplinary action and deregistration by the state鈥檚 director general if they went ahead with a 24-hour strike on February 25.
The evening before the planned action, WA premier Colin Barnett intervened to offer the nurses a 14% pay rise over three years.
Australian Nursing Federation (ANF) members accepted the offer after voting at a mass meeting on February 25.
In Western Australia, mental illness is the second-highest cause of disease for women and the fourth-highest cause for men.
Premier Colin Barnett has responded by publishing a green paper for public discussion for a new Mental Health Act. The proposed act contains provisions that would improve the rights of people subjected to a Compulsory Treatment Order (CTO). But it negates those same provisions by allowing the treating psychiatrist to simply ignore them.
The National Tertiary Education Union released the statement below on March 1.
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National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) members at the University of Sydney will strike for 24 hours on March 7 over enterprise bargaining.
鈥淭his is the first strike in a decade and shows just how riled our members are at management's arrogance and its lack of commitment to the enterprise bargaining process,鈥 said branch president Michael Thomson.
鈥淲e logged our enterprise bargaining claims on August 7 last year.
It has been a colossal past year for women鈥檚 rights, with global and local attention flaring across a range of horrific individual tragedies and broader issues, including sexual assault and violence against women, the ongoing gendered disparity in income, and the debate on misogyny. In Melbourne, Jill Meagher鈥檚 abduction and murder lead to about 30,000 people rallying in Brunswick, while the Reclaim the Night march drew a crowd of 5000 people to Sydney Road in a huge public declaration that 鈥淓nough is enough鈥.
About 200 Sensis workers chanted "Our jobs: yes, outsourcing: no, John Allan has to go", at a rally outside Telstra's Melbourne head office on February 28.
John Allan is the CEO of Sensis, a Telstra subsidiary that has announced plans to sack 700 workers.
Lorraine Cassin, the secretary of the printing division of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU), told the rally that 400 of the jobs would be transferred to Manila and Mumbai.
Dear Darren,
I鈥檝e never understood rugby league, but have seen enough State of Origin matches to know there is something special about the way you play the game. They say you are a captain鈥檚 captain, a leader鈥檚 leader: the fast-as-lighting country boy who would be king.
So I am distancing myself from my Queensland brothers and sisters in writing this letter. But I wouldn鈥檛 be writing it if you hadn鈥檛 already distanced yourself from your followers.
鈥淚t鈥檚 move over Olympic Dam with a massive shale oil find confirmed for Linc Energy in South Australia, which sent its share price into orbit,鈥 the ABC鈥檚 The Business said on January 29, exulting at a big discovery of unconventional oil and gas near the remote town of Coober Pedy, 800 kilometres north-west of Adelaide.
The Northern Territory government passed new mandatory sentencing laws on February 14 that will increase the minimum time offenders spend in prison and restrict judges鈥 right to suspend sentences for certain crimes.
NT justice minister on February 14: "These new mandatory minimum sentences correct the failed attempt by the former Labor government to be tough on crime."
Venezuelan ambassador to Australia Nelson Davila introduced the film El Caracazo: A day that shook a country at a public screening on February 27. The event was hosted by the Venezuelan embassy and the Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network (AVSN).
Standing for public office in an already rigged electoral system just became even harder.
On February 25, the Senate approved that will discriminate against minor parties and independents.
The new law doubles the nomination fee for all candidates in the federal elections among other changes.
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