Australia
Australia: Media buries fake email scandal
By Mike Head, August 13, 2009
As the Australian parliament resumed this week after a six-week winter recess, there were signs that the so-called OzCar fake email scandal, which erupted in June, is being dropped as quickly as possi...
Australia: Media promotes sensationalised “terror” claims
By Mike Head, August 11, 2009
Despite scant police evidence, the Australian media has universally depicted five Muslim men arrested on August 4 in the course of extensive police raids as guilty of an extraordinary plot to attack a...
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
August 8, 2009
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Australia: Rudd government urges employers and unions to cut hours and wages
By Terry Cook, August 8, 2009
With the assistance of the Rudd government and the unions, employers across Australia are utilising the economic crisis to impose sweeping changes to working conditions.
Australia: Labor’s “reform” to further privatise health care
By Mike Head, August 6, 2009
The Australian government’s National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission report has made clearer the pro-market and pro-business agenda of Labor’s health care “reform”.
Australia: Victorian paramedics protest for safer conditions
By Perla Astudillo, August 5, 2009
Around 500 ambulance workers rallied in central Melbourne to demand safer working conditions and better pay.
Australia: Labor conference endorses war and “sacrifice”
By Mike Head, August 4, 2009
The Australian Labor Party concluded its three-day national conference with a tribute to former Prime Minister Bob Hawke and a unanimous endorsement of a “long-term” Australian military commitment...
Australia: Business lending dries up
By Alex Messenger, August 1, 2009
Despite media claims of imminent economic recovery, business lending plunged in Australia during the first half of 2009.
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
August 1, 2009
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
Australia: Olympic gold medalist Ian Thorpe speaks out against Aboriginal “intervention”
By Richard Phillips, July 29, 2009
Powerful criticism of decades of deliberate government neglect of Australia’s poverty-stricken indigenous communities by former swimming star Ian Thorpe has been subjected to a virtual media black o...
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
July 25, 2009
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
Australia: Aboriginal disadvantage widens under Rudd government
By Susan Allan, July 24, 2009
According to the Productivity Commission’s latest report, the gap between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians is either static or widening across 80 percent of social statistics.
