Palestinian refugee Akram al Masri, 31, who was deported from Australia in 2002, has been shot dead in his homeland less than six months after Australian authorities allegedly refused him a visitors visa.
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Queensland is the biggest coal producing state in the biggest coal producing country in the world, John MacKenzie of Friends of the Earth told an August 6 Socialist Alliance forum.
More than 10,000 peasants rallied on August 4 in Okara, Punjab demanding the withdrawal of false charges of murder against the leaders of Tenant Association of Punjab (AMP).
The fourth annual Equal Love rally and exchange of Midwinta vows was held in Melbourne on August 3.
Given everything that is occurring in Tarija, Santa Cruz, Pando and Beni, we have to denounce
that we are on the threshold of a real coup detat against the constitutional order, announced Bolivian minister of the presidency, Ramon Quintana, on August 7.
South Australian teachers undertook four days of rolling stoppages and community rallies across the state from August 4-7 in an attempt to force the state government to re-negotiate its pay and funding arrangement for public schools and TAFEs. Eighty-three per cent of teachers voted in favour of the stoppages in workplace ballots in late July.
International oil giant Chevron is lobbying the US government to cancel trade deals with Ecuador over a court case where it faces a US$16 billion fine for polluting the Amazonian rainforest.
The Victorian state government is considering far-reaching changes to workers compensation laws.
On August 6, Victoria University of Technology (VUT) hosted a seminar, “Pacific Islands Migration and Labour Mobility: Issues and Responses”, which discussed the potential for an unskilled guest worker scheme for Pacific Island workers. Some Pacific nations have called for such program to help alleviate high rates of unemployment.
Abolish the ABCC! Support rights of building workers! was the message on protesters placards outside PM Kevin Rudds electorate office in Morningside on August 8.
On Super Saturday August 16, hundreds of activists across NSW will staff Stop the Sell-Off stalls in 50 NSW electorates. Part of the campaign to stop the state ALP government from privatising electricity, the stalls are expected to gather thousands of signatures on petitions, and promote the mass anti-privatisation rally planned for September 20, at Sydney Town Hall.
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