More than 1500 workplace representatives and union officials attended the annual Victorian Occupational Health & Safety Reps Conference on October 28 in Melbourne.
Katie Cherrington
Equal pay for equal work: it’s a pretty straightforward concept. So why is pay equity for women so hard to achieve, and why has the gender pay gap been getting wider?
In the face of the Rudd government’s refusal to confirm whether federally-funded maternity leave will be included in the upcoming May budget, the Australian Council of Trade Unions has retreated from its previous stance calling for immediate implementation.
The Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne, Denis Hart, has threatened that Catholic hospitals could be forced to close emergency and maternity wards if a proposed bill to decriminalise abortion is passed.
We need a council that stands up for residents against greedy developers and the anti-people policies of the state and federal governments, Vannessa Hearman, a Socialist Alliance candidate for South Ward in the Moreland Council election on November 29, told Green Left Weekly.
November 11 is Remembrance Day, marked each year to commemorate those who have died in war.
A documentary film-maker arrested and held without bail overnight after the September 2007 anti-APEC protest in Sydney was cleared of all charges on July 21.
Contaminated wells, dying marine life and crops being destroyed by extreme weather are just a few of the challenges facing the 11,000 residents of Tuvalu, a Pacific nation that is the second smallest in the world.
A struggle to reignite, restore and respect Aboriginal community control is being waged in Fitzroy, a place of historical significance to the contemporary Indigenous rights movement.
The War on Democracy
Directed by John Pilger & Chris Martin
96 minutes
In limited release nationally
http://www.warondemocracy.net
Directed by John Pilger & Chris Martin
96 minutes
In limited release nationally
http://www.warondemocracy.net