More than 3000 people turned out on October 16 in protest against coal seam gas mining plans in the area. The protest was further proof the coal seam gas (CSG) industry is in trouble. Its problem? An informed public.
The Australian said on October 10 that a survey had showed the CSG industry was 鈥渓osing the PR battle鈥, with 63% of respondents recalling a negative media story about CSG.
Driving the bad coverage has been the large grassroots campaign against the industry.
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Qantas CEO Alan Joyce is in line for a salary increase of 71% at the airline鈥檚 upcoming annual general meeting, but Qantas staff continue to battle the company for job security and decent pay.
The proposed increase will bring Joyce's annual salary package to $5 million.
Striking Greek public-sector workers paralysed transport and left rubbish piling up in Athens and Thessaloniki on October 14, the said that day. The strike was the latest salvo against the European Union-International Monetary Fund campaign to make working people pay for the banking crisis.
Rubbish collectors stayed off the job for a 10th consecutive day, the article said. Members of the All Workers Militant Front also blockaded the Acropolis for a second day.
On October 15, protests and occupations as part of a "United for Global Change" day of action initiated by the Spanish Indignant movement took place in more than 1000 cities in dozens of nations around the world.
The Occupy Melbourne Community Outreach Working Group has released the letter below addressed to Australian unions and union members.
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Dear union member,
We write to address you on a social movement that may have great impact on issues affecting all workers and union members in Australia.
On October 11, the general secretary and national organiser of General Workers鈥 Union (GWU), as well as 17 workers, were arrested by police while preparing for a peaceful protest in the office of East Timor's justice ministry.
The protest was being staged to support the demands of 19 workers sacked unfairly by the ministry.
The arrested workers preparing to protest were dismissed from the Turismo Hotel because of the unfair decision of the justice ministry towards their management in closing the business.
Unions have warned that Britain's National Health Service faces its biggest strike in history on November 30 unless the government drops its changes to workers' pension plans, the said on October 14.
NHS workers' union GMB has condemned the government's plans. NHS national officer Rehana Azam said health minister Andrew Lansley 鈥渋s ignoring the very strong arguments we made and turning his back on the anger and frustration felt by NHS staff鈥.
For two weeks running, the Chogm Action Network (CAN) has had meetings of almost 50 people 鈥 double the regular attendance 鈥 as new activists have come into the movement inspired by the Wall Street Occupation.
Since March, CAN has been organising a protest for the October 28 opening of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM).
Discussion at the two meetings has revealed that there is a lot of good will and common purpose among the activists now working together.
At 11.30am on October 15, about 750 people converged on City Square in Swanston Street in Melboune鈥檚 CBD as part of the global movement. It is a movement inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement that has initiated similar movements in hundreds of cities worldwide.
Walk With Us: Aboriginal Elders Call Out to Australian People to Walk with them in their Quest for Justice
Compiled and published by Concerned Australians
$15, 71 pages, hard cover
wwww.concernedaustralians.com.au
Walk With Us is the long awaited sequel to the highly regarded and recommended This Is What We Said 鈥 Australian Aboriginal People give their views on the Northern Territory Intervention, published in February last year.
Occupy Sydney activists have been buoyed by motions of endorsement by the NSW State Council of the Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) and the Canterbury-Bankstown Teachers Association, the Maritime Union of Australia and the NSW division of the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU).
Lupe Fiasco, a US hip hop artist, wrote the following poem in support of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement. It was published in the second edition of The Occupied Wall Street Journal, which is published by activists in the OWS movement.
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