Figures from the Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC) show that since the election of the Labor government in November, the commission has upped the ante in its witch-hunt of building industry workers.
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According to a July 15 statement by Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) spokesperson Patrick Craven, a meeting of southern African trade union representatives that day had issued a call for unions to place industrial bans on goods destined for Zimbabwe in solidarity with the struggle for democracy.
An anti-privatisation rally calling for the expansion of 鈥渞enewables, not coal鈥 was held outside NSW treasurer Michael Costa鈥檚 Newcastle office on July 14.
The British government has been slammed by the European Court of Human Rights for secretly and illegally monitoring every single telephone call, fax message and e-mail between Ireland and Britain for years.
Whatever the final detail of the federal government聮s carbon emissions trading scheme 聴 the framework of which is contained in the green paper released by climate change minister Penny Wong on July 16 聴 there聮s one thing we can be sure of: it won聮t be of much use in cutting Australia聮s carbon emissions.
聯The world is facing twin disasters in the near future: the coming economic meltdown of the international capitalist system, and the looming climate change crisis聰, Jim McIlroy told a 麻豆传媒 Weekly forum on July 15.
Below is an open letter from Herman Wainggai of the Australia West Papua Association (AWPA) to Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.
Pakistan is once again a focal point of an imperialist agenda and the so-called war against terrorism.
A spirited rally of 1500 people protesting against the pope聮s reactionary policies took place on July 19 against the backdrop of an important civil liberties victory in the courts.
Tasmania Greens leader Peg Putt announced her resignation on July 7 after 15 years in parliament, with Nick McKim replacing her as leader.
Reprinted from Granma International, July 11. For more information on the case of the five Cuban anti-terrorists jailed in the US for their role in infiltrating Miami-based anti-Cuban terrorist groups, or to find out how to get involved in the campaign to free them, visit http://freethefive.org.
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