The Kimberley Land Council has made a controversial in-principle agreement with Woodside Petroleum and the federal and WA state governments to develop a liquefied natural gas project at James Price Point near Broome.
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The government and most of the mainstream media want Australia to believe we are facing a βsurgeβ of asylum seekers, threatening Australian borders as they arrive in dangerous and non-seaworthy boats.
More than 300 people marched for May Day in Wollongong on May 2. The lead banner read: ΒPeople before Profits; Export CEOs not Jobs!Β. There were many different union and community contingents.
The article below is based on an April 30 statement by the Stop the War Coalition Sydney .
On April 29, PM Kevin Rudd announced an extra 450 troops would be sent to Afghanistan to participate in the latest US-led βsurgeβ.
Construction company John Holland and unions are locked in discussions to settle a nine-week-long industrial dispute.
Despite the economic crisis, the Australian government has announced it will increase military spending by billions of dollars over the next 20 years.
A largely defenceless people struggling to survive and hemmed in on a narrow strip of land, facing indiscriminate airstrikes, assault from gun boats and cluster bombs by a well-equipped army, conjures up the image of the recent Israeli invasion of Palestineβs Gaza Strip.
In an act of peaceful civil disobedience, more than 500 Tamils occupied George Street in Sydneyβs CBD for more than an hour. The May 1 action protested the genocide being carried out by the Sri Lankan government against the Tamil people in the north and east of the country.
The speech below was made by Darren Vanderkaay at a solidarity picnic on April 26 at MelbourneΒs Yarraville Gardens. The picnic was hosted by the Western Suburbs Community and Unions Coalition. Darren is one of 39 workers unfairly sacked from the West Gate Bridge strengthening project by construction company John Holland.
Anti-desalination campaign group Watershed has called a protest for May 9 at the site of the proposed desalination plant in Wonthaggi, Victoria. The slogan of the protest will be, βIf they build it, we all will pay!β
Seven activists associated with Israeli anti-military recruitment groups New Profile and Target 21 have been arrested in the latest attack on internal dissent in Israel, ±α²Ήβa°ω±π³Ω³ϊ said on April 27.
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