Oceania
Australia: Contradictory witness testimonies in Julian Moti hearing
By Patrick O’Connor, October 15, 2009
The Queensland Supreme Court resumed hearings yesterday on the application by former Solomon Islands’ attorney general Julian Moti, for a permanent stay of proceedings in the attempt by Australian p...
Australia: Productivity Commission report rules out curbing executive pay
By Terry Cook, October 13, 2009
A recently released report by Australia’s Productivity Commission into CEO salaries has opposed any significant restraint on the multi-million dollar remuneration packages.
Australian government deports Sri Lankan asylum-seekers
By Richard Phillips, October 12, 2009
In line with the previous Liberal-National coalition administration, the Australian Labor government has begun deporting refugees it claims do not qualify as asylum-seekers.
SEP public meetings in Sydney and Melbourne
Seventy years since World War II: lessons and warnings
October 8, 2009
The SEP/ISSE meetings will discuss the historical lessons of World War II. That terrible conflagration was not inevitable. It was above all the product of the treachery of Social Democracy and Stalini...
The Australian Labor Party and the war in Afghanistan
By Socialist Equality Party (Australia), October 7, 2009
Since its election in November 2007, the Rudd Labor government has escalated Australian military involvement in the Afghan conflict. Just as Afghanistan is now referred to as Obama’s war, so it has ...
Pacific tsunami relief efforts grossly inadequate
By Tom Peters, October 7, 2009
In absolute terms the number of people affected by the tsunami in Samoa, American Samoa and Tonga is small, but, per capita, the level of destruction is enormous.
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...
Tsunami hits several South Pacific countries
By Frank Gaglioti, October 1, 2009
A six-metre tsunami, followed by several smaller waves, hit the South Pacific islands of American Samoa, Samoa, and Tonga on Tuesday morning. Around 140 people are dead, many more are missing and at l...
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,...
