Cleaners, members of the Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Union (LHMU), held a cake stall outside the Commonwealth Bank headquarters on September 20 as part of a "Cleanstart" campaign national day of action. The cake stall was a tongue-in-cheek
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MELBOURNE — Maintenance workers at Toyota went on strike for three days after an Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) delegate was stood down by management on August 29. When Toyota relocated its Port Melbourne production facility to
The Victorian Labor government, crying poor, wants to use the controversial private-public partnerships (PPP) model to remedy the decaying state of its public schools. This is a system in which a government service, or private business venture, is
Shelly Dahl & Fred Fuentes, Sydney Recent academic and technical staff retrenchments have cast doubts about the future of the fine arts course at the Penrith campus of the University of Western Sydney (UWS). As a result of the Howard government's
Barry Healy Pope Benedict XVI, when known as Cardinal Ratzinger, was notorious as "the Pope's Rottweiler", the theological enforcer who silenced progressives. On September 12, he began a new role - "dog whistler" for Islamophobia. Dog whistle
Art for quake victims ArtquakeStone Gallery at Eastside Arts (Paddington markets, Sydney)October 7, view from 10am, auction at 3pm. PREVIEW BY REBECCA CONROY As the monsoon season draws near, post-earthquake recovery in Indonesia is increasingly
Margarita Windisch, Melbourne On October 3, the Victorian Kurdish Association is hosting a conference titled "Political and Human Rights Dimensions of the Kurdish Question". Mahmut Kahraman told Green Left Weekly that the conference aimed to bring
Stuart Munckton Venezuela's socialist President Hugo Chavez once again sent waves of shock through the US elite, and the corporate media, by using his speech before the United Nations General Assembly on September 20 not for diplomatic niceties but
BRISBANE — Queensland Department of Boating and Fisheries Patrol staff struck for 24 hours on September 17. The patrol workers, members of the Queensland Public Sector Union, are negotiating an enterprise agreement and protesting the lack of
Stuart Munckton In an exclusive interview with the September 10 Spanish-language daily Diario Panorama, Venezuela's socialist President Hugo Chavez spoke about the challenges facing the Bolivarian revolution — as the process of social
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