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Green Left Weekly issue #690, 15 November 2006
Big turnout for GLW fiesta

BRIEF Around 200 people attended Green Left Weekly solidarity fiesta on November 4 and helped raise $2700 for the newspaper’s fighting fund. The event featured greetings from sacked Botany Cranes delegate Barry Hemsworth, who is campaigning for reinstatement, and a passionate statement of support for... Community stands up to industrial bully

BRIEF For the second time in three weeks, a community assembly stopped work at the Port Campbell Woodside Gas Plant construction site in regional Victoria on November 10. People came from Portland, Hamilton, Warrnambool, Geelong and Melbourne to support workers at the site in their campaign against the th... Bans to stay on A-E grading

On November 3, the NSW Industrial Relations Commission (IRC), while directing the NSW Teachers Federation (NSWTF) to lift its bans on public school teachers using A-E gradings in end-of-year school reports, refused to grant an order sought by the state Department of Education and Training that subje... » Call for free, safe public transport

About 100 people rallied on the steps of Flinders Street station during rush hour on November 9 to call on Premier Steve Bracks’ Labor government to make public transport free and put it back into public hands. » Environmentalists oppose mine discharge

The Environment Centre of the Northern Territory and the No Waste Alliance have written to the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) urging it not to grant a waste discharge license for a new mine near the town of Batchelor, about 100 kilometres south of Darwin. » Falling dominoes: Rumsfeld gone - Bush, Blair and Howard next?

For most of us, if you lose your job you’re in serious financial trouble. Not so for recently sacked US defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld. » Federal Court reinstates unionists

On November 10, the Federal Court ordered the reinstatement on full pay and conditions of two retrenched National Union of Workers (NUW) delegates because their employer was unable to prove that its decision to dismiss them was unrelated to their union activities. » Good showing for militants in Victorian AEU election

In elections held last month for officers and councillors in the Victorian branch of the Australian Education Union (AEU), all state councillors who are members of the opposition grouping Teachers Alliance (TA) were returned. The group’s candidates won an average overall vote of 25%. » Help get Green Left Weekly around on November 30 McKay releases a 'stale doughnut'

“The revelation that Sydney’s Labor powerbrokers are determining exactly what their Newcastle Labor candidate says to the media offers a glimpse into how the Labor candidate would be handled if she were elected in March”, Michael Osborne, the Greens candidate for Newcastle, said on Oc... » Police violence discussed

On November 9, Nicole Watson, an academic from the Jumbunna Centre of the University of Technology, Sydney, condemned the culture of police violence against Indigenous people in Queensland. She was addressing a public meeting at James Cook University attended by 100 people. » Sydney community pickets back workers

Community activists have bolstered picket lines at Botany Cranes (Exell St, Banksmeadow) and Thompson’s Roller Shutters (Henderson St, Turella) on several mornings over a period of several weeks. » Vote to cap coal exports

Newcastle City Council voted on November 7 to recommend that the NSW government cap coal exports through the Port of Newcastle at present levels. Greens councillor Michael Osborne moved the motion, which was supported by Labor councillors. »


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