On March 7, 60 people joined with three 聯comfort women聰 survivors 聴 Jan Ruff O聮Herne AO, Hsie Mei Wu and Gil Won Ok, from Australia, Taiwan and Korea 聴 outside the Japanese Consulate in Martin Place.
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With global warming increasingly dominating mainstream political discussion, the debate about solutions has intensified. While PM John Howard has thrown his weight behind the lie of 鈥渃lean, green鈥 nuclear power, the ALP has maintained its opposition to this deeply unpopular option.
Adelaide backpacker David Hicks will be arraigned before an illegally constituted military tribunal at the Guantanamo Bay concentration camp on March 20 and face the retrospective and ill-defined charge of 鈥渕aterial support for terrorism鈥.
Rallies and other events took place around Australia on March 8-10 to mark International Women's Day. Pictured is Brisbane's rally. In Melbourne, around 300 people gathered on March 8 for a rally initiated by the Victorian Trades Hall Council under the theme of "women and work". Delegations from a wide range of unions and community groups protested the Howard government's vicious anti-union and anti-worker laws, which are having a disproportionately negative impact on women.
International Women聮s Day (IWD) 聴 March 8 聴 was marked by marches protesting the recent acquittal of former assistant police commissioner Clint Rickards and two other former police officers on charges of rape.
A tiny group dominates Australian politics and Labor leader Kevin Rudd recently met them. He knows very well that the key to Labor聮s electoral success later this year is an accommodation with the Australian oligarchy.
In an out-of-court settlement, which became public on March 4, Victorian Labor Premier Steve Bracks鈥 government agreed to pay compensation to 47 protesters injured at the 鈥淪11" blockade of the World Economic Forum in Melbourne in September 2000. The settlement awards $700,000 in compensation, although $600,000 will go to legal fees.
In 麻豆传媒 Weekly #693, we published an article broadly in favour of George Monbiot鈥檚 call for carbon rationing. Below, Gar Lipow critiques this as a strategy for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
The Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) voted to affiliate to the ALP at the union鈥檚 March 2-4 national governing council meeting. The enabling motion, heavily amended during the course of the meeting, passed by 42 votes to 12.
Several NSW unions have decided to endorse the March 17 Sydney rally against the war in Iraq, organised by the Stop the War Coalition. They are the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA); the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union; the NSW Fire Brigade Employees Union; and the National Tertiary Education Union.
Women's day
Happy Women's Day, health minister Abbott. Just a reminder that undermining the independent choices of women has alienated nearly half the voting population. And, as a parent of an autistic child, whose expensive therapy is not
Some 40 Sydney University students held a speak-out outside the army recruitment stall during orientation week on February 28, drawing attention to campus anti-war sentiment. Sydney University anti-war activists passionately poured their knowledge of the war聮s criminality into the megaphone and the action was a spectacle of peaceful dissent.
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