On October 21, 80 people attended a public forum in Footscray organised by the Maribyrnong Action Group. Speakers discussed the health risks of diesel emissions and the ever increasing quantity of trucks passing through residential streets in Maribyrnong. A range of solutions were presented, from immediate curfew observance and extensions to shifting more freight onto trains.
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Three Filipino workers sacked for speaking out about their and 37 other Filipino workersÂ’ treatment by Ipswich welding firm Dartbridge Engineering have been found alternative employment by their union, the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU).
Many of the 2.6 million US soldiers who served in the Vietnam War have contracted cancer and a cocktail of serious health problems that they believe to be directly linked to their exposure to the dioxin-contaminated defoliant Agent Orange. The US military sprayed Agent Orange heavily in some parts of Vietnam for 10 years during the war.
The Young Unionist Network (YUN) and the Rock for Your Rights at Work coalition are bringing together artists and cultural workers to stage five huge gigs here in the lead-up to the November 30 national day of action against the Howard governmentÂ’²õ anti-worker laws. Ranging from hip-hop to heavy metal, the gigs aim to maximise support for the campaign against Work Choices.
NSW Greens MP Lee Rhiannon has called on the NSW Labor government to drop a current trial of taser stun guns after one of the weapons caused the death of a teenager in the United States on November 1. It is expected that the NSW government will announce before next MarchÂ’²õ state election that stun guns will be given to 7000 NSW police on general duties.
Staff at the University of NSW mail room are the latest victims of the universityÂ’²õ 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 ResearchÂ’²õ youth centre in Lidcombe, Sydney, spoke to Â鶹´«Ã½ WeeklyÂ’²õ 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 HilalyÂ’²õ comments about women and sexual assault.
Seventy people packed into the Resistance Centre on October 26 to hear author Antony Loewenstein and Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly journalist Rupen Savoulian speak about IsraelÂ’²õ 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 stateÂ’²õ 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: “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 IslandÂ’²õ watchhouse. On that day, members of QueenslandÂ’²õ Aboriginal community and their supporters will rally in Brisbane to demand an end to Aboriginal deaths in custody.
The womenÂ’²õ room, and the womenÂ’²õ, Indigenous and queer officer positions will not exist next year at the Bendigo campus of Latrobe University.
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