National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) members at Macquarie University in Sydney took rolling industrial action across four faculties during the first teaching week of semester.
The industrial action was part of a campaign for a new collective agreement for academic staff.
Three hundred staff and students rallied on March 3 to hear about the bargaining impasse. Issues of concern for staff include overcrowded classes, lack of facilities, workloads, budget cuts and job security.
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Many millions of tonnes of coal have been exported since activists dubbed the Rising Tide Seven temporarily shut down coal loaders in Newcastle in September last year.
They were convicted on January 31 of 鈥渞emaining on enclosed lands鈥. Each was fined $300, plus $79 in court costs.
However, on March 3, they were vindicated when magistrate Elaine Truscott rejected the Port Waratah Coal Services鈥 (PWCS) $525,000 鈥渃ompensation鈥 claim.
US-backed dictators have 鈥榤oral scruples鈥
鈥淸P]ro-American dictatorships have more moral scruples. The comparison is akin to what happened in the 1980s when U.S. allies led by authoritarians fell peacefully in the Philippines, South Korea and Taiwan, even as Communist regimes proved tougher.鈥
鈥 February 16 WSJ editorial.
Supporting its dictators
鈥淭he [Obama] administration has submitted a proposed budget for fiscal 2011 that included military assistance increases for Bahrain, Libya, Morocco, Oman and Yemen.鈥
The Global Economic Crisis: The Great Depression of the 21st Century
Edited by Michael Chossudovsky & Andrew Gavin Marshall
Global Research, 2010
The Centre for Research on Globalisation (CRG), based in Montreal, runs a website that publishes in-depth analysis of economic and strategic issues aimed at countering that offered by the mainstream media.
HOBART 鈥 About 20 people attended an Aboriginal rights forum organised on February 24 by the Socialist Alliance.
The forum heard from a panel of representatives from the Tasmanian Aboriginal community and explored a range of issues they are campaigning around, including the Brighton Bypass, heritage issues and the NT intervention.
The Greens candidate for Heathcote in the NSW elections, Phil Smith, has renewed his party鈥檚 call for a moratorium on coal seam gas mining in the state.
He said gas extraction poses real risks for communities throughout the Heathcote electorate, a seat that spans from southern Sydney to the northern Illawarra.
The Labor state government recently approved 15 coal seam gas wells in the northern Illawarra region.
鈥淭he Greens are leading the call for an immediate moratorium,鈥 Smith told 麻豆传媒 Weekly.
One hundred people, including many from the Latin American community, ex-ALP members, members of the Greens, plus members of Newcastle, Wollongong, and several Sydney branches of Socialist Alliance, helped launch the SA鈥檚 campaign in the NSW state election on February 26 at St Lukes Hall in Enmore.
Hosted by lead SA Legislative Council candidates Peter Boyle and Jess Moore, the night featured music, theatre, political speeches and more.
The night was also about people-powered culture, with performances from the Freedom Fighters and Newcastle-based band GRCO.
A NATO airstrike killed nine children collecting firewood in eastern Afghanistan on March 2, Afghan officials have said.
A March 2 WashingtonPost.com article said the deaths in Konar province 鈥渂ecame the latest irritant in the tense relationship between President Hamid Karzai and the international force in the country鈥.
The top NATO commander, US general David Petraeus, issued an apology for the error, which the occupying forces blamed on 鈥渇aulty communication鈥.
The federal government鈥檚 expansion of income management in the Northern Territory has created new barriers for Aboriginal people who want to get off its welfare control scheme.
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The rollout has also affected hundreds 鈥 possibly thousands 鈥 of others, including residents of Darwin and Alice Springs and newly arrived refugees.
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In a joint statement on February 25, indigenous communities that make up the Native Federation of Madre de Dios River and Tributaries in south-eastern Peru rejected a military crackdown on illegal mining on their lands.
The statement said it was a 鈥渇alse solution to a problem that has social and economic roots鈥.
Environment minister Antonio Bracks authorised the operation in mid February 鈥攊nvolving about 1000 police and infantrymen 鈥 to destroy illegal mining equipment including bombing of dredges.
A rally was held on February 28 to protest against the recent decision of a London court to extradite WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange to Sweden to face questioning on allegations of sexual assault.
Assange鈥檚 legal team announced it would appeal the decision.
The rally was held under the themes "We deserve the truth!鈥, 鈥淗ands off WikiLeaks!鈥 and 鈥淔ree Julian Assange!"
Victorian Premier Ted Baillieu announced on March 1 that the government would push ahead with the unpopular plan to build Australia鈥檚 largest desalination plant in Wonthaggi.
This is despite pre-election promises that he would re-examine the contract with Aquasure, the private consortium commissioned to build and operate the plant, which was approved under Labor premier John Brumby in 2007.
According to the Age on March 1, the eventual price tag is "$24 billion that is expected to double household water bills over the next five years".
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