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Industrial action planned at Sydney university

SYDNEY聴 University of Sydney members of the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) have voted overwhelmingly for strike action in pursuit of a decent agreement with the university聮s administration.

Australia and the sunset on coal

聯Quarry Vision: Coal, Climate Change and the end of the Resources Boom聰
By Guy Pearse
Quarterly Essay, Issue 33
Black Inc, 2009
129 pages, $16.95

Tamils rally for end to genocide

Four hundred Tamils and their supporters gathered in Melbourne on April 23 for an emergency protest. It was organised in response to the Sri Lankan government鈥檚 latest brutal military escalation in the north of the island.

Fiji: New power play in coup saga

On April 10, Fijian President declared a state of emergency and suspended the constitution. Elections, scheduled for this year, have been delayed for five years.

Yarrabah protests CDEP scrapping

CAIRNS聴 Residents of the Indigenous community at Yarrabah held a public meeting on April 22 to discuss the Rudd government聮s proposal to scrap the Community Development Employment Program (CDEP) on July 1.

Fighting Fund: Put jobs and people first

For the annual May Day march in Wollongong this year, workers and the community will march under the banner, 鈥淧ut jobs before profits鈥. Now that our PM has finally admitted Australia faces a recession, these four words sum up nicely a just response to the crisis.

ALP & Greens rule out free public transport

Blacktown ALP NSW MP Paul Gibson has openly urged Premier Nathan Rees to make public transport free.

Vanuatu: Land fight intensifies

Australian property developers are pushing the Indigenous people of Vanuatu, the Ni-Van, off their land.

Wesfarmers did it again

A bulk carrier with the name Ipanema arrived at Port Fremantle, Western Australia, on April 15. The ship carried phosphates from occupied Western Sahara, in violation of international law.

On the box

Spinifex Man 鈥 The life of the Indigenous theatre and film actor, Trevor Jamieson. ABC, Friday, May 1, 6pm. Guests of the Ayatollah 鈥 In the Iran hostage crisis, the military was authorised to rescue the hostages by force. The mission failed

More jobs or higher profits?

Telstra has once again started to sack staff. The communications union fears up to 2000 workers will be 聯let go聰 by mid-year. This makes a total of close to 12,000 job losses over the four years since CEO Sol Trujillo took the helm.

Let's hope this gift keeps on giving

Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
By Eduardo Galeano
25th anniversary edition, Monthly Review Press, 1997
317 pages, $40 (pb)
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