Holding placards stating 鈥淪ave the pool鈥 and 鈥淯niting Care doesn鈥檛 care鈥, hydrotherapy patients, many of them elderly people and in wheelchairs, gathered outside Uniting Care Health in Rosalie on May 17 to oppose the proposed closure of the Wesley Hydrotherapy Centre.
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In 1974 hundreds of people crowded into a room in the Carlton Pram Factory and hatched a plan to build a media outlet that would tell the stories of those neglected, marginalised and ignored by the mainstream media of the day. Two years later 3CR began transmitting the voices of trade unions, the working class, the Indigenous community, youth and students, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, peace and social justice activists, greenies, socialists, anarchists, lovers of jazz and nostalgia music, feminists, queers and people with disabilities.
As 麻豆传媒 Weekly goes to print David Hicks is on his way back to Australia 鈥 to Yalata prison in South Australia. But Lady Justice is sailing off in the other direction.
On May 12, federal opposition leader Kevin Rudd chartered a private plane to fly to Western Australia to meet with BHP, Rio Tinto and Woodside bosses. The meeting followed two weeks of the mining bosses arguing that Labor鈥檚 promise to abolish AWAs (individual contracts), confirmed at its April national conference, would harm the resources boom and lower productivity in the mining sector.
Carora聮s streets are much like other Latin American cities 聴 bustling commerce on every corner, traffic, noise, people going about their daily routine. But there is something that distinguishes Carora and the Municipality of Pedro Leon Torres from any other municipality I聮ve visited in Latin America, and in particular, any other in Venezuela. The city is on a path to democratise and transform its entire governance system, from the bottom up 聴 led by the current Mayor Julio Chavez (no relation to President Hugo Chavez).
On May 12, 60 people marked the anniversary of the deaths in 1981 of 10 Irish republican hunger strikers in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh prison in Northern Ireland, who were fighting for their right to be recognised and treated as political prisoners. The commemoration, held at the Gaelic Club, was organised by the Sydney Cairde (Friends of) Sinn Fein group.
On May 7, the Melbourne Magistrates Court denied bail to two men arrested under 鈥渁nti-terror鈥 laws for raising funds for tsunami relief in the Tamil areas of Sri Lanka.
Australia聮s top silk and civil rights advocate Julian Burnside QC has suggested introducing a law that makes it an offence for politicians to lie. I don聮t know how practical this would be, but imagine if politicians could be forced to tell the truth and 聮fess up like the makers of Ribena?
A group of construction workers in Somerton have proved that it is possible to get off an individual contract (Australian Workplace Agreement 聴 AWA) and onto award rates and an enterprise agreement.
In the early hours of March 13, the National Liberation Party of Unity (Papernas) regional office in Palu, Central Sulawesi, was attacked by around 30 men. Three Papernas members were hospitalised.
Less than two days after its launch, more than 100 people had signed an 聯online pledge聰 to take part in peaceful direct action against the construction of a third coal export terminal at Newcastle聮s port. The pledge notes that the terminal would increase Newcastle聮s coal exports by 聯66 million tonnes per annum, producing 160 million tonnes of greenhouse pollution聰.
A young woman working in a juice bar is fired and rehired at a casual rate significantly less than her former wage. She is forced to sign an AWA (Australian Workplace Agreement 鈥 individual contract) to get her job back. A young man, aged 13, is fired after retaliating against his manager who assaulted him in a South Australian fast food business.
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