#151; A special convention of Western Australian Civil Service Association delegates voted unanimously on October 17 to serve a claim for a 23% wage increase over three years on the WA government. The claim, known as GA4, would begin with a 9% rise in February 2008, when the current general agreement 3 expires.
Barry Healy
Capitalist Networks and Social Power in Australia and New Zealand
By Georgina Murray
Ashgate, 2006
252 pages, US$99.95 (hb)
By Georgina Murray
Ashgate, 2006
252 pages, US$99.95 (hb)
Many working-class people in Western Australia are suffering the consequences of a two-tier society despite the states booming economy, the Socialist Alliance candidate for Pearce, Annolies Truman, told the partys state conference on August 11.
On July 21 the East/Hills branch of the Socialist Alliance pre-selected Annolies Truman to run for the seat of Pearce in the up-coming federal election.
It is often thought that concern for the interconnection of living systems is a modern development. But Karl Marxs talked about it repeatedly throughout his Capital.
Australia has long been known as one of the most wasteful countries in the world: per head of population we are second only to the US in the amount of waste we pile into landfills.
The Original Australians
By Josephine Flood
Allen and Unwin, 2006
306 pages, $39.95
By Josephine Flood
Allen and Unwin, 2006
306 pages, $39.95
Men in Contemporary Russia: The Fallen Heroes of Post-Soviet Change?
by Rebecca Kay
Ashgate, 2006
236 pages, $121.50
by Rebecca Kay
Ashgate, 2006
236 pages, $121.50
On April 24, the Locals for Esperance Development (LED) residents' group told the WA south coast town’s local council they wanted a complete ban on the shipment through Esperance of lead for nickel to be transported in closed containers, and community consultation about further transportation of heavy metals through the port.
Free Market Missionaries: The Corporate Manipulation of Community Values
By Sharon Beder
Earthscan, 2006
260 pages, $56
http://www.dadirect.com
By Sharon Beder
Earthscan, 2006
260 pages, $56
http://www.dadirect.com
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