New Zealand
Australian Labor “left” bestows medal on General Petraeus
By Laura Tiernan, November 6, 2009
The photograph published in yesterday’s press of John Faulkner, the Defence Minister in the Australian Labor government, draping an honorary Order of Australia around the neck of General David Petra...
Julian Moti case: Enormous sums paid by Australian police to alleged victim’s family
By Patrick O’Connor, November 6, 2009
Hearings over the past two days have been dominated by two key issues—Australian complicity with lawyer Julian Moti’s allegedly unlawful removal from the Solomons in December 2007, and the stagger...
Australia: Latest refugee deaths—the Rudd government’s SIEV X
By Socialist Equality Party (Australia), November 4, 2009
The tragic drowning of 12 Sri Lankan Tamils northwest of the Cocos Islands on Sunday is another grim reminder that the election of the Rudd Labor government in November 2007 has changed nothing for re...
Julian Moti defence counsel attacks Australian government’s “politically driven prosecution”
By Patrick O’Connor, November 4, 2009
In Queensland’s Supreme Court, defence counsel for former Solomon Islands’ attorney general Julian Moti condemned Australian authorities for “bringing the administration of justice into disreput...
Australian government’s industrial “cop” prosecutes union over Qantas strikes
By Mike Head, November 3, 2009
The Rudd government’s Fair Work Ombudsman and Qantas are seeking fines, multi-million dollar compensation
“Pressure politics” at Sydney protest over asylum seekers
By Mathew Benn, November 3, 2009
A rally called by the Refugee Action Committee to protest the Labor government’s callous treatment of refugees was dominated by futile appeals for “compassion” from Prime Minister Rudd.
Australian government’s “Indonesian Solution” in disarray
By Richard Phillips, November 2, 2009
Two weeks after an Australian customs ship rescued 78 Tamil asylum seekers, the unresolved standoff over their future has focussed attention on the Labor government’s inhumane and illegal treatment ...
Australian imperialism, the 1999 East Timor intervention and the pseudo-left
By Patrick O’Connor, November 2, 2009
September marked the tenth anniversary of the Australian-led military intervention into East Timor. It is also a decade since a layer of pseudo “left” groups organised “troops in” demonstratio...
Australian man faces lengthy jail term for “offensive” letters
By Mike Head, October 30, 2009
A Muslim man faces up to 14 years in prison for sending allegedly offensive letters to the families of Australian soldiers killed in Afghanistan.
Bridgestone closes plants in Australia and New Zealand
By Terry Cook, October 29, 2009
The Bridgestone closures, which end tyre production in Australasia, are part of a global restructuring of the auto industry, in the wake of the worldwide financial crisis.
Sri Lanka: Plantation unions accept wage sell-out
By M. Vasanthan, October 28, 2009
All the plantation unions, including those that initially opposed it, have effectively fallen into line behind a deal that binds workers to poverty-level wages and productivity speed-up for the next t...
Australian government intensifies crackdown on asylum seekers
By Richard Phillips, October 28, 2009
The Rudd government is planning an “Indonesian solution” paying Jakarta to incarcerate refugees intercepted while trying to reach Australia.
