Australia
Australia: University staff strike for “day of action”
By our reporters, September 17, 2009
Members of the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) at 16 universities stopped work yesterday to fight increased workloads, a blow-out in class sizes, casualisation and other attacks on jobs and c...
Australia: UN envoy denounced after he describes Northern Territory “intervention” as racist
By Richard Phillips, September 16, 2009
All factions of the political elite came together last month to denounce the UN’s Special Rapporteur on Indigenous Rights after he criticised the federal Labor government’s policies towards Aborig...
Australia: Union, courts and media team up against bus drivers’ strike
By Mike Head, September 12, 2009
The mass media, the union and the industrial court joined forces against 130 bus drivers when they walked off the job in western Sydney to fight the imposition of new timetables.
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
September 12, 2009
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
Australia: Bail denial in terrorism case sets dangerous new precedent
By Mike Head, September 11, 2009
Three men accused of a terrorist conspiracy have been denied bail, with a magistrate saying they were politically opposed to the existing legal and political system.
Australia: Ambulance union sells out MICA paramedics campaign
By Terry Cook, September 10, 2009
The federal and state Labor governments, acting in concert with the Ambulance Employees Association (AEA), mounted a major operation this week to suppress a campaign by around 300 paramedics in defenc...
Australia: New details about “SIEV 36” refugee deaths expose official lies
By Richard Phillips, September 8, 2009
Detailed information about the explosion on a fishing vessel carrying Afghan refugees off the north-west coast of Australia last April underscores the seamless transition that has taken place from the...
Australia: Specialist paramedics threatened with punitive sanctions
By Margaret Rees and Patrick O’Connor, September 7, 2009
Mobile Intensive Care Ambulance paramedics met in Melbourne, Victoria on Saturday and resolved to proceed with their planned resignations, to take effect this Wednesday, in protest over a proposed ind...
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
September 5, 2009
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
Australia: International students protest lack of access to student concession cards
By Mathew Benn, September 4, 2009
Hundreds of international students protested in Sydney and Melbourne on Wednesday to demand access to the same student concession cards provided to domestic students.
Australia: Bushfire investigation report a whitewash
By Richard Phillips, September 4, 2009
The Victorian royal commission’s interim report into the February 7 bushfires makes no criticism of the state government, and its predecessors, whose policies are responsible for the tragic loss of ...
Australia: Workers protest against Labor government assault on safety laws
By our correspondents, September 2, 2009
Workers in several cities demonstrated yesterday against moves by the Australian government to undermine occupational health and safety legislation. The trade unions, however, are merely seeking a pla...
