Victoria聮s nurses are fighting three enemies: the state Labor government, the hospital administrations, and the federal Coalition government.
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On October 3 Caribbean Net News reported that the South American nation Guyana, which borders Venezuela to its west, will soon benefit from a US$12.5 million debt write-off by Venezuela under an agreement expected to be finalised in the near future.
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On October 16, events in more than 150 countries marked World Food Day, which commemorates the founding of the UN聮s Food and Agriculture Organisation, with the theme of 聯the right to food聰.
The Socialist Alliance鈥檚 anti-war campaign coordinator, Pip Hinman, has offered her condolences to the family of trooper David Pearce, recently killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan鈥檚 Oruzgan province.
According to an October 8 report from Venezuela聮s Presidential Press Office report, a new poll conducted by polling company Seijas has revealed that only 3.4% of Venezuelans think capitalism is the best system of government; 22.6% said it was preferable to socialism and 62.7% said they preferred socialism to capitalism.
The Howard government聮s changes to electoral legislation, passed last year, will mean a large portion of young people who are of voting age will be left off the electoral roll for the November 24 federal election. This legislation 聴 an obvious move to bar certain voters from the political process 聴 affects mainly those who are statistically more likely to vote against the government, such as the young, homeless people, house-renters and those who speak English as a second language.
Fractures have emerged in Respect 聴 the Unity Coalition, a group formed in January 2004 by an alliance that drew together expelled Labour MP George Galloway (now Respect聮s sole MP), the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) and anti-war activists. On August 23, Galloway issued a letter to Respect聮s National Council titled 聯It was the best of times, it was the worst of times聰 criticising the group聮s lack of organisation and 聯custom of anathematisation in the organisation which is deeply unhealthy and has been the ruin of many a left-wing group before us聰.
Victorian state sector nurses are being threatened with having their pay docked for at least four hours for each day they participate in industrial action over wages and conditions, which began following a mass meeting of more than 3500 Australian Nursing Federation (ANF) members on October 16.
US President George Bush has opposed US Senate legislation to fund health care for the nuclear-test-affected Marshallese. Sixty-seven US nuclear bombs were detonated in the Marshall Islands between 1946 and 1958.
Tasmanian high school, college and university students are planning to walk out of class on November 1 to protest federal environment minister Malcom Turnbull鈥檚 approval of the Gunns鈥 pulp mill.
On October 12, PM John Howard announced his plan to hold a referendum to alter the preamble to the Australian constitution to include an acknowledgment of the original inhabitants of Australia. This is a departure from Howard鈥檚 historic position against 鈥渟ymbolic鈥 gestures of reconciliation 鈥 a position that in the past has earned him the ire of Indigenous groups, who in 2000 literally turned their backs on Howard when he refused to apologise for previous governments鈥 complicity in the horrendous policies that led to the Stolen Generations.
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