Pressure from unions over the exploitation of foreign workers employed under the 457 visa scheme for temporary workers has forced the Howard government to tighten some of the regulations.
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A bill recently pushed through federal parliament has the potential to threaten state moratoriums on genetically modified organisms (GMOs) by granting new powers to the federal agriculture minister, a WA anti-GMO activist told 麻豆传媒 Weekly.
The Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission (SCCRC) ruled on June 28 that the 2001 conviction of Libyan citizen Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi 鈥 sentenced to 27 years鈥 jail for allegedly bombing Pan Am flight 103, which exploded over the Scottish town of Lockerbie on December 21, 1988, killing 270 people 鈥 鈥渕ay have suffered a miscarriage of justice鈥. The SCCRC referred al Megrahi鈥檚 case to Scotland鈥檚 appeal court.
聯Australian Defence Minister Brendan Nelson has admitted that securing oil supplies is a key factor behind the presence of Australian troops in Iraq.聰 This was how the BBC reported Nelson聮s July 5 comments to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation on the release of a review of Australia聮s 聯defence strategy聰.
Fifty delegates from the Queer Collaborations student conference, held in Hobart from July 9 to 13, rallied on July 12 in solidarity with Northern Territory Indigenous communities that are being invaded by federal police. The conference voted to support the Indigenous community in the NT against the Howard government聮s interference. The rally then marched to Liberal Senator Eric Abetz聮s office to hand him the statement written by the elders of the Mutitjulu people, which asked for community assistance but not police intervention.
Recent attacks on the organic food industry are about discrediting it to soften up the public to accept genetically modified (GM) crops, Dr Maggie Lilith of the Conservation Council of WA and the Say No to GMO campaign told 麻豆传媒 Weekly.
Lucky Miles
Directed by Michael James Rowland
With Kenneth Moraleda, Rodney Afif and Srisacd Sacdpraseuth
In cinemas from July 19
Directed by Michael James Rowland
With Kenneth Moraleda, Rodney Afif and Srisacd Sacdpraseuth
In cinemas from July 19
Fifteen of the 20 workers at the Esselte site in Minto, in Sydney聮s south-west, have been on strike for four weeks. The stationary company has been trying to force its employees onto Australian Workplace Agreements (AWAs 聴 individual contracts) for two years.
In a judgment against the police that was describing as 聯scathing聰 by Sydney Morning Herald journalist David Marr, magistrate David Heilpern dismissed all charges against the two 聯tranny cops聰 who were violently arrested at a protest against US Vice-President Dick Cheney on February 23. This brings to four the number of Cheney protesters who were charged and acquitted.
Three years after extending its moratorium on the commercial growing of genetically modified (GM) crops, the Victorian ALP government appears poised to remove the ban when it expires in February 2008.
聯John Howard is more than happy to welcome war criminal George Bush to Sydney in September, but he won聮t even give the time of day to struggling workers, such as Botany Cranes union delegate Barry Hemsworth, who is still on the grass more than 300 days after being unfairly sacked聰, Socialist Alliance activist Pip Hinman told 麻豆传媒 Weekly.
A gathering of 150 unionists and political activists stood outside the Queensland ALP conference held at Brisbane聮s Exhibition and Convention Centre on June 30. Organised by the state branches of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union and the Electrical Trades Union, the protest called on the ALP to maintain the promise made at the ALP national conference to abolish the Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC). After the national conference, Labor聮s industrial relations spokesperson Julia Gillard announced that a Labor government would keep the ABCC until 2010.
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