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Green Left Weekly issue #801, 6 July 2009
ABC apologises to Tamils for inaccurate report

BRIEF, AUSTRALIA ABC TV has apologised after a viewer complained that the May 18 7.30 Report misrepresented the history of the Tamil people in Sri Lanka. » ATO agreement endorsed

BRIEF, AUSTRALIA A draft agency agreement proposed by Australian Taxation Office (ATO) management has been endorsed by a staff vote. An announcement made on June 30 said 56% of votes were cast in support of the agreement. » Family First: love God, hate Earth

BRIEF, AUSTRALIA Family First, the small party based on the fundamentalist Assemblies of God church is carving out a niche for itself as an environmental vandal, at the federal and at state levels. » Solidarity with struggle in Iran

BRIEF, AUSTRALIA Eighty people attended an afternoon rally in Sydney's Martin Place on July 3 to show solidarity with the people of Iran in their struggle for democracy. » Liberated from a failing institution

AUSTRALIA On April 19, a huge mob of St Mary’s people made a pilgrimage out of a church and into the Trades and Labor Council (TLC) building, home of the Queensland Council of Unions. » Mine expansion delayed by Indigenous owners

AUSTRALIA The NSW Supreme court of appeal ruled on July 1 that a planned expansion of the Lake Cowal gold mine in the central-west of NSW cannot go ahead for up to three months. » New group formed to fight privatisation

AUSTRALIA A June 30 public meeting launched a community group to fight the Queensland Labor government’s planned sell-off of $15 billion worth of public assets. » Power station says strikers cannot return to work

AUSTRALIA Twelve emergency services officers (ESOs) who work at the Hazelwood power station suspended a 12-week-long strike at Hazelwood Power Station on June 26. However, their employer, contractor Diamond Protection, has refused to allow the workers to return to work. » Protest calls on Rudd to condemn Honduran coup

AUSTRALIA An emergency protest was held on June 29 in response to the military coup that ousted Honduras’ democratically elected President Manuel Zelaya the day before. The action targeted Labor MP Duncan Kerr’s office, and demanded the federal government condemn the coup. » Rally condemns coup in Honduras

AUSTRALIA On July 1, 60 people attended an emergency rally againt the coup in Honduras in the Latin American Plaza in Sydney. The emotionally charged rally was called at short notice by the Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network (AVSN) and the Latin American Forum to condemn the undemocratic coup carried out ... » Unions rally to stop Qld gov’t sell-off

AUSTRALIA Fifteen hundred trade unionists and supporters marched through the streets of Brisbane to state parliament on July 3 to oppose the ALP state government’s planned selloff of public assets. »


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