A mass community protest at the biggest coal port in the world, Newcastle, has succeeded in preventing coal ship movements all day on March 28. Hundreds of peaceful protesters occupied the harbour since 10 am in the morning.
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On May 6, 2009, the Queensland Industrial Relations Commission (QIRC) made a landmark decision on pay equity that acknowledged the chronic undervaluation of women鈥檚 work in Queensland's community services sector. It awarded pay rises of between 18% and 37% to the workers concerned 鈥 80% of whom were women.
The F Conference, a historic conference given the long gap between such gatherings, drew a diverse, non-separatist, multi-generational crowd . About 500 gathered at NSW Teachers鈥 Federation over April 10-11 to discuss feminist ideas and campaigns.
In February, about 20 people from Victoria and NSW (and three from Germany), spent two weeks constructing a protest house with the people of Ampilatwatja. Actively Radical TV, a Sydney community-based video group, went to document the building of the protest house.
BRISBANE 鈥 Fifty people gathered in Brisbane Square on April 16 to speak up for refugee rights. The action was sponsored by the Refugee Action Collective, and demands include that the government immediately resume processing Afghan and Sri Lankan asylum claims and respect its international obligations.
According to new research, Australia's richest 1% of taxpayers 鈥 those earning more than $197,000 鈥 accounted for 9.8% of total income in 2007-08, up from 8.8% in 2002-03.
Four hundred fire service workers and supporters rallied in Melbourne on April 14 and submitted a report to the Royal Commission on the 2009 bushfires.
Twelve groups supporting refugee rights met on April 10 to discuss the possibility of joint actions.
This issue is a two-week issue, to allow GLW staff and campaigners to take part in the Resistance 2010: The World Can鈥檛 Wait! conference. The next issue will be dated May 5.
May Day events in Wollongong will feature the Tahmoor mine workers and their struggle for a fair go. The workers and their union, the Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU), have been trying to negotiate an enterprise bargaining agreement with Xstrata, the owner of Tahmoor Colliery, for more than 18 months.
鈥淭owards socialism and sustainability鈥 was the theme of the Queensland Socialist Alliance (SA) state conference held at the Activist Centre on April 17. About 40 people gathered to discuss proposals for building the socialist project in 2010.
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