Only six months into her term as president, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner faces a massive crisis following the decision by Vice-President Julio Cobos to vote against Fernandez鈥檚 proposed tax increases on food exports, breaking the senate vote deadlock in favour of the opposition.
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Following an extended industrial campaign by the Victorian branch of the Australian Education Union for better wages and conditions including smaller class sizes, Victorian Premier John Brumby announced on May 5 that an agreement had been reached with the union. The deal, which was later ratified by union members, awarded vastly different pay rates to different groups of teachers and failed to address the key issues raised in the teachers聮 campaign. The following is a response by AEU member and Teachers Alliance supporter Peter Curtis.
聯We have escalated this dispute because the members are angry that no real progress has been made on our agreement after five months聰, Peter Simpson, Queensland assistant secretary of the Electrical Trades Union, told 麻豆传媒 Weekly on July 18.
The British lawyer Gareth Peirce, celebrated for defending victims of miscarriages of justice, wrote recently in relation to the conflict in Northern Ireland.
The unjust quarantining of Aboriginal people聮s Centrelink benefits, enforced as part of the federal government聮s Northern Territory intervention, has been labelled by some as the intervention聮s most destructive element.
Supposedly due to 鈥渄ysfunction鈥, NSW local government minister Paul Lynch sacked another elected local council on July 9. Based on the recommendation of commissioner Richard Colley, who headed up the recent public inquiry into the council, Lynch declared all elected offices of Shellharbour City Council (SCC) vacant.
On November 23, the government of President Hugo Chavez, and the revolution he is leading in Venezuela, will face a serious test. Regional elections will be held nationwide in Venezuela and the results will have a significant impact on the progress of the Bolivarian revolution.
The family of Aidan McAnespie, shot dead by a British soldier after he passed through a checkpoint on the Monaghan/Tyrone border between the Republic of Ireland and the six counties of British-occupied Northern Ireland 20 years ago on his way to a football match, say a new report into his death heralds another phase in their campaign for the truth.
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.
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.
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