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Australia: Labor government’s new industrial relations body bans paramedic strike
By Chris Sadlier, July 22, 2009
Fair Work Australia (FWA), the Labor government’s new industrial relations tribunal, yesterday banned planned strike action by ambulance paramedics in Victoria.
Australia: Teachers Federation annual conference: a green light for Labor’s pro-market “education revolution”
By Erika Zimmer, July 22, 2009
Last week’s New South Wales Teachers’ Federation annual conference served to deflect widespread opposition among teachers to the Rudd government’s pro-market education reforms.
Australia: Behind the Labor government’s paid parental leave fraud
By Tess Gordon, July 20, 2009
The Rudd government’s proposed Paid Parental Leave scheme is aimed at boosting productivity through increased workforce participation.
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
By the, July 18, 2009
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
Australia: Sacked Nylex workers rally outside ANZ bank
By our correspondents, July 15, 2009
Sacked workers from the bankrupt manufacturing company Nylex staged a protest outside the ANZ bank in Melbourne’s central business district yesterday to demand full payment of their redundancy and e...
Australia: Court hears criminal charges against West Gate Bridge construction workers
By Patrick O’Connor, July 15, 2009
On July 6 the Melbourne Magistrates Court heard a series of serious criminal charges, relating to industrial action held at the West Gate Bridge project, laid against twelve construction workers.
Full-time job losses accelerate in Australia
By Mike Head, July 14, 2009
The destruction of full-time jobs gathered pace in June, hitting male manufacturing and young workers in particular.
Australia: Coroner finds caesarean death was “preventable”
By Laura Tiernan, July 14, 2009
A coronial inquest has found that Rebecca Murray, a 29-year-old mother who died following a caesarean delivery at Bathurst Base Hospital in regional New South Wales, died from preventable causes.
Australia: Indian students boycott Victorian Labor government’s “Walk for Harmony”
By Patrick O’Connor, July 13, 2009
Indian students boycotted yesterday’s “Walk for Harmony” in central Melbourne after the Victorian Labor government of Premier John Brumby refused to allow them to address the rally.
Australia: Victorian government attempts to pre-empt findings of bushfire investigation
By Margaret Rees, July 11, 2009
In an extraordinary political manoeuvre, Victorian premier John Brumby has moved to pre-empt potentially damaging findings by the state’s royal commission into the February 7 “Black Saturday” bu...
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
July 11, 2009
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
Australia: Former Labor PM Keating denounces Rudd government’s “isolationist” stance on China
By Patrick O’Connor, July 10, 2009
Former Labor prime minister Paul Keating delivered a speech on July 2 in which he criticised the government’s recently released defence policy “White Paper” for implying that Australia could fin...
