In the face of a general strike called by Shiite militants in Baghdad聮蝉 northeastern Sadr City district, home to 2.5 million people, US troops ended their week-long siege of the district on October 31.
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The US, Britain, Italy, France, Australia and Bahrain began two days of joint naval exercises in the Persian Gulf on October 31, including marine boardings of ships 32 kilometres from the Iranian coastline. Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson Mohammad Ali Hosseini told reporters in Tehran: 聯We are watching their movements very carefully. We do not consider this exercise appropriate. US moves go in the direction of more adventurism, not of stability and security.聰
Staff at the University of NSW mail room are the latest victims of the university聮蝉 cost-cutting and corporatisation. Mail services at UNSW including internal mail and courier services were put out to tender via an advertisement in the November 1 Sydney Morning Herald.
On October 30 primary and preschool teachers went back to the classrooms, ending seven weeks of strikes and actions, with their key demand of a 40% wage increase unmet. They will continue their campaign for wage justice with 24-hour strikes and education rallies on November 3 and 9.
Fadi Rahman from the Independent Centre for Research聮蝉 youth centre in Lidcombe, Sydney, spoke to 麻豆传媒 Weekly聮蝉 Emma Clancy about the impact on young Muslim Australians of the media attack on the entire Islamic community in the wake of Sheikh Taj el-Din Al Hilaly聮蝉 comments about women and sexual assault.
Seventy people packed into the Resistance Centre on October 26 to hear author Antony Loewenstein and 麻豆传媒 Weekly journalist Rupen Savoulian speak about Israel聮蝉 role in the Middle East. Loewenstein described the wide range of responses to his new book, My Israel Question, including much positive feedback from Jews who expressed their support for his critique of the Israeli state聮蝉 repressive policies in the region.
How hard is it to raise $76,500 before the end of this year? Not hard at all for some organisations. As the November 1 Sydney Morning Herald reported: 聯Opposition Leader, Peter Debnam, took to the harbour last night for a fund-raising cruise with the property industry aboard a luxury cruiser owned by a developer, Greg Gav.
November 18 will be the second anniversary of the police killing of Mulrunji in Palm Island聮蝉 watchhouse. On that day, members of Queensland聮蝉 Aboriginal community and their supporters will rally in Brisbane to demand an end to Aboriginal deaths in custody.
The women聮蝉 room, and the women聮蝉, Indigenous and queer officer positions will not exist next year at the Bendigo campus of Latrobe University.
November 30 is a truly national day of protest, with more than 300 rally points across metropolitan and rural Australia. Regional Victorian workers are being encouraged to come to Melbourne on November 29 to be ready for an early start the next day at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, or the 聯G聰.
Large rallies were held around Australia on November 4 as part of an international day of action to protest government inaction on climate change. Organisers of the 鈥淲alk against warming鈥 estimated that the number of people who participated was up to: 47,000 in Sydney, 30,000 in Melbourne, 5000 in Hobart, 3000 in Canberra and Perth, 1500 in Brisbane, 1000 in Adelaide and Wollongong, 800 in Newcastle and 300 in Cairns.
Forty-nine workers at the largest workshop in the Latrobe Valley have been locked out for almost three months by Mechanical Engineering Services (MES). As soon as he聮d locked out the workers, the company owner, Anthony Elliott, went overseas for several weeks.
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