Teachers in New South Wales public schools are committed to an ongoing campaign of legal, political and industrial action to secure salary justice and maintain rights and conditions that have been achieved through past struggles.
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Victorias three largest community water campaign groups have united to campaign for sustainable alternatives to the state governments new water infrastructure projects.
Hundreds of thousands of people have fled their homes in recent months as the Sri Lankan Army (SLA) attempts to capture areas of northern Sri Lanka held by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a group that has fought for 30 years for self-determination for the Tamil people.
On October 26, part of the roof of a multi-story Canberra building collapsed. The building is under construction in the city centre.
Aboriginal rock art found on Western Australias Burrup Peninsula is in danger of destruction. Friends of Australian Rock Art (FARA) released photographs showing the full extent of damage for the first time on October 25.
On October 30, 100 people attended a public forum and film screening of My Daughter the Terrorist, at the University of Melbourne.
On November 1, rallies took place in eastern states in response to the conviction of Lex Wotton, who has been charged with riot with destruction (see article on page 3).
A crowd of 1000 people marched through the Perth CBD to Parliament House on October 30 to tell the Western Australian government to keep the state GMO (genetically modified organism)-free.
The below article is based on a paper presented on October 8 by Eric Toussaint to the international Responses from the South to the World Economic Crisis seminar held in Caracas. It has been translated by Federico Fuentes and is abridged from socialist e-journal Links, Links. Toussaint is from the Committee for the Abolition of Third World Debt.
In the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 bombings of the World Trade Centre and Pentagon, US President George Bush declared an open-ended, apparently indefinite “war on terror”.
Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale & Why We Bought It
By Elizabeth Royte
Scribe, 2008
248 pages, $32.95 (pb)
By Elizabeth Royte
Scribe, 2008
248 pages, $32.95 (pb)
Between October 15 and 17, thousands of West Papuans held rallies for self-determination in several parts of this Melanesian nation that has been occupied by Indonesia since 1962.
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