Thousands of workers across the country rallied on April 28, including more that 15,000 in Melbourne. The rallies protested the Rudd governments maintenance of the anti-union Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC), which was established by the previous government of John Howard.
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More than 300 people marched for May Day in Wollongong on May 2. The lead banner read: People before Profits; Export CEOs not Jobs!. There were many different union and community contingents.
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The speech below was made by Darren Vanderkaay at a solidarity picnic on April 26 at Melbournes Yarraville Gardens. The picnic was hosted by the Western Suburbs Community and Unions Coalition. Darren is one of 39 workers unfairly sacked from the West Gate Bridge strengthening project by construction company John Holland.
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Green Left Weekly spoke to Fremantle by-election candidates Adele Carles (WA Greens) and Sam Wainwright (Socialist Alliance) to ask what they hoped to achieve through their election campaigns
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Anti-desalination campaign group Watershed has called a protest for May 9 at the site of the proposed desalination plant in Wonthaggi, Victoria. The slogan of the protest will be, “If they build it, we all will pay!”
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The following open letter is to Tasmanian federal Labor MP Duncan Kerr, from Resistance.
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The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) is planning industrial action at most Victorian universities on May 21.
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Darwins Sacred Cause: Race, Slavery & the Quest for Human Origins
By Adrian Desmond & James Moore
Allen Lane, 2009
485 pages, $55 (hb) -
Ironically, it was the first of May — workers’ day — and we were protesting against privatisation outside the NSW Labor Party offices.
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The Melbourne Climate Action Centre hosted the launch of the book Global Warming and the Political Ecology of Health Emerging Crises & Systemic Solutions on April 23.
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Greens candidate Adele Carles and Socialist Alliance candidate Sam Wainwright argued for cooperation among progressive candidates in election campaigns at an April 22 meeting. Both activists are contesting the May 16 Fremantle by-election.
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CAIRNS Residents of the Indigenous community at Yarrabah held a public meeting on April 22 to discuss the Rudd governments proposal to scrap the Community Development Employment Program (CDEP) on July 1.