Oceania
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
November 7, 2009
The World Socialist Web Site invites workers and other readers to contribute to this regular feature.
Fiji expels Australian and New Zealand diplomats
By Frank Gaglioti, November 7, 2009
Tensions between Fiji and the two regional powers, Australia and New Zealand, intensified further this week after Suva expelled two top diplomats for interfering in the country’s internal affairs.
Unanswered questions over Australian offshore oil spill
By Mike Head, November 7, 2009
Throughout the oil spill crisis, the Rudd government has been preoccupied with protecting the image and profits of the multi-billion dollar offshore drilling industry.
End the persecution of Tamil asylum seekers by Sri Lankan and Australian governments
By Wije Dias, November 6, 2009
The plight of Tamils living in intolerable conditions in Sri Lanka has been brought into sharp relief by the tragic drowning of 12 Tamil asylum seekers attempting to reach Australia in a small vessel.
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...
