PERTH Workers at the AMCOR factory in the suburb of Canningvale protested on August 19 to support their campaign for wage rises and a new enterprise agreement. The plant, which manufactures steel cans, had been assessed as one of the most productive in the world but now faces decline because of management intransigence, workers told Green Left Weekly outside the factory gates.
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The Socialist Alliance has condemned NSW Premier Morris Iemmas latest bid to rush through enabling legislation to sell off the states energy retailers and generators.
MELBOURNE Two hundred Tamils gathered outside Victorias parliament building on August 22 to highlight the plight of hundreds of thousands of Tamils displaced by fighting between the Sri Lankan army and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
The following is based on the Socialist Alliances campaign leaflet for the September 6 Western Australian election.
PERTH The Cuban people work in the interests of humanity. They do not work only for themselves, but for the wellbeing of the people of the world, Hilda Chacon, Asia-Pacific representative of the Cuban Federation of Workers, told an audience of around 30 at an Australia-Cuba Friendship Society function on August 18.
Tasmanias Wilderness Battles: A History
By Greg Buckman
Jacuna, 2008
272 pages, $29.95
By Greg Buckman
Jacuna, 2008
272 pages, $29.95
PERTH With a state election set for September 6, the WA Labor government last week pledged a four-year extension of the current moratorium on GM (genetically modified) crops and a limit on GM canola trials to 10 hectares.
There is good news and bad news. Let's have the bad news first.
Love War & Peace
Featuring the Sydney Soloists
September 1, 7pm, Music Workshop, Sydney Conservatorium of Music
Tickets $25
Bookings http://www.cityrecitalhall.com or (02) 8256 2223
Featuring the Sydney Soloists
September 1, 7pm, Music Workshop, Sydney Conservatorium of Music
Tickets $25
Bookings http://www.cityrecitalhall.com or (02) 8256 2223
Climate Code Red: The Case for Emergency action
By David Spratt & Philip Sutton
Scribe Publications, 2008
320 pages, $27.95
By David Spratt & Philip Sutton
Scribe Publications, 2008
320 pages, $27.95
When you see the line-up of candidates running for Newcastle council in the September 13 elections, you notice the average demographic is seriously out of whack with that of the region.
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