More than 200 coal miners in Tahmoor, southwest of Sydney, were locked out with no pay, on February 9.
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US rock group the White Stripes has protested at what it says is the unauthorised use of an instrumental version of its song βFell in Love With a Girlβ in a recruiting ad for the US military, the New York Times said on February 9.
Anti-war and democratic rights activists are organising protests for US President Barack Obamaβs upcoming visit.
In October, when Ampilatwatja walk-off spokesperson Richard Downs toured the eastern states with Yuendumu elder Uncle Harry Nelson, they explained how their protest camp would demonstrate that Aboriginal people running their own affairs could build the type of sustainable community that the Northern Territory intervention, like past assimilationist and paternalistic policies, had failed to deliver.
More than 2500 TAFE teachers filled Sydney Town Hall on February 11 during a 24-hour strike. The action was in response to New South Wales government attacks on TAFE teachers and the delivery of quality education.
The statement published below has been signed by the Working Peopleβs Association (Indonesia); Confederation Congress of Indonesia Union Alliance; the Singapore Democratic Party; the Socialist Party of Malaysia; Socialist Alternative (Australia); Socialist Alliance (Australia); and Socialist Worker New Zealand. If your organisation wants to sign this joint statement, email international@prp-indonesia.org.
Dwarfing recent opposition protests, more than 100,000 supporters of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez marched in Caracas on February 4 in defence of the government and to celebrate 18 years since Chavez led a failed civilian-military uprising against a corrupt government in 1992.
United States President β and Nobel Peace Laureate β Barack Obama will spend nearly US$1 trillion on war this year.
US National Director of Intelligence Admiral Dennis Blair presented the βannual threat assessmentβ before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on February 2
How to sum up the Liberal Partyβs βdirect actionβ scheme to tackle global warming? Well, how about: a fraud wrapped in demagogy inside a delusion?
Wiki Government: How Technology can make Government Better, Democracy Stronger, & Citizens more PowerfulBy Beth Noveck, Brookings Institute Press200 pp, US$28.95
A Nielsen poll published in the February 8 Sydney Morning Herald showed a sharp drop of support for Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's key climate change policy, the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS).
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