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Australia: The assassination of Michael McGurk and the stench of NSW Labor
By Alex Messenger, October 5, 2009
Revelations arising from the murder of Sydney loan-shark Michael McGurk highlight links between NSW Labor and an underworld of property moguls and violent criminals.
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
October 3, 2009
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
Australia: The political issues facing Victorian paramedics
By Socialist Equality Party (Australia), October 1, 2009
A “no” vote must be the first step towards a coordinated industrial and political campaign mounted in opposition to the grossly inadequate salaries and dangerous working conditions endured by ambu...
Severe dust storm hits Australian coastal cities
By Alex Safari, September 29, 2009
A huge dust storm blanketed large areas of Australia’s southeastern coast last Wednesday, covering cities and towns in the states of New South Wales and Queensland, before moving out to sea towards ...
Australian government lawyers demand Guantánamo compensation case be stopped to protect US alliance
By Richard Phillips, September 29, 2009
The government has intensified its efforts to stop Mamdouh Habib, a 53-year-old Australian citizen and father of four, from suing over its role in his illegal detention and torture in Pakistan, Egypt,...
“Fair Work Australia”: A union-enforced straitjacket on workers
By Mike Head, September 26, 2009
The trade unions are enforcing Labor’s industrial legislation that goes far beyond the previous government’s “Work Choices” laws in prohibiting nearly all strikes.
The Australian media and the Julian Moti case
By Patrick O’Connor, September 24, 2009
The Australian media has imposed an effective blackout on proceedings brought before the Queensland Supreme Court by former Solomon Islands’ Attorney General Julian Moti.
Behind the “day of action”: Australian university union enforces government agenda
By Mike Head, September 22, 2009
The purpose of the limited “day of action” called by the National Tertiary Education Union was to suppress any political struggle against Labor’s agenda, while cementing the union’s place in i...
Australian academics’strike at UNSW: a few observations from the ISSE
By Mathew Benn, September 19, 2009
Academics and general staff at the University of New South Wales went on strike last Wednesday as part of the National Tertiary Education Union’s “National Day of Action”. Members of the Interna...
Australian court told witnesses were threatened in Julian Moti case
By Patrick O’Connor, September 18, 2009
The Queensland Supreme Court has heard allegations that witnesses called by counsel for the former Solomon Islands’ attorney general Julian Moti were threatened with the termination of their employm...
Rudd’s Education Revolution “a disaster for universities”
By our reporters, September 17, 2009
Macquarie University’s National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) branch president Carolyn Kennett speaks with the World Socialist Web Site about the deepening assault on public tertiary education tha...
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...
