Five unions met in Brisbane on May 6 to launch a national campaign for the abolition of the Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC).
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Below is an abridged May 7 statement from the Burma Partnership Secretariat.
In presenting the state budget on May 6, Premier John Brumby announced that 鈥渄oing business in Victoria will become even easier鈥. The ALP government鈥檚 pro-corporate measures will cut almost $1.5 billion from taxes and costs for the big end of town.
鈥淲hat the hell is happening in NSW鈥, interstate callers have been asking the Socialist Alliance national office in recent days. Many are former activists in NSW left politics, and remember with bitterness the days when 鈥淪ussex Street鈥 (headquarters of Unions NSW and the ALP administration) could be relied upon to stifle any protest movement threatening the stability of NSW Labor in government.
聯How many minutes to midnight, do you reckon it is?聰, asked a 麻豆传媒 Weekly buyer at a street stall last week.
Queensland Premier Anna Bligh and state mines and energy minister Geoff Wilson were on hand in early May to celebrate Rio Tinto聮s announcement that the company would double exports of coal from Queensland in the next seven years.
Ground-breaking new research findings posted on the internet in April have confirmed what many scientists and climate activists have already concluded 鈥 that the goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions embraced by the European Union and Australia鈥檚 Labor government are gravely inadequate.
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Dick Nichols聮 article 聯Let the Tibetans decide their future聰 (Write On #748) argues that it is irrelevant that 聯the Tibetan resistance army up until 1959 was funded and trained by the CIA聰. This statement is incorrect, as he meant to write 1969 not 1959. More importantly, however, contrary to Nichols opinion, I believe that understanding the reasons why the CIA supported the Tibetans is very significant if one wants to develop a full understanding of the corporate media聮s ongoing fixation on Tibet聮s struggle for liberation.
The plan for the privatisation of electricity in NSW is like the mythical creature the hydra, which had multiple heads. It had to be 鈥渒illed鈥 many times before it would actually die 鈥 and every time it was 鈥渒illed鈥 it could bite back apparently unharmed.
More than 10,000 unionists marched through Brisbane鈥檚 streets on May 5, celebrating the union movement鈥檚 role in the defeat of the Howard government last year. The annual Labour Day parade was led by the building unions, with the Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) in the lead. This year marks the 150th anniversary of the founding of the original building workers\' union in Queensland.
鈥淸It] would be imprudent to tip the winners in the race for low emission technologies鈥, wrote Barney Glover, University of Newcastle deputy vice-chancellor, in an April 10 letter defending the university鈥檚 research in so-called clean coal technologies.
More than 2000 people rallied at Fremantle Esplanade to celebrate May Day and to call for the scrapping of all of the anti-worker laws of the previous government.
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