Five thousand people attended the vibrant Climate Emergency Rally in Melbourne on June 5. Grassroots environment activists and groups came from all over Victoria to protest numerous environmentally destructive projects currently underway or proposed, demanding action instead be focused on renewable energy and public transport.
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Professor Ross Garnaut’s draft review of climate change policy options for the Australian government was released on July 4, with climate change minister Penny Wong due to release a green paper canvassing policy options on July 16. Garnaut’s report looks at the “costs” and “benefits” of mitigating drastic climate change through a carbon polluting trading scheme. It suggests tax cuts and “welfare reform” to compensate low-income households, which will be hit hard by energy price rises.
The following statement has been issued by the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union.
There have been nationwide protests against the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) governments decision to raise the prices of petrol, diesel and cooking gas.
The following article is abridged from a June 26 post on http://peruanista.blogspot.com. The full article, along with a series of videos on the struggle, can be found at http://links.org.au.
Employees and Australian Workers Union (AWU) members at CSRs Yarraville sugar refinery are in dispute with management over a log of claims for their enterprise bargaining agreement.
Each year 80,000 abortions are performed in Australia, with one in three women having a termination at some stage in their lives.
Two weeks ago, I presented a young Palestinian, Mohammed Omer, with the 2008 Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism.
David Rovics has been described as the musical voice of the progressive movement in the US. In this interview with Green Left Weeklys Matt Clark, he explains his motivations, his influences and his take on politics today.
On June 26, NSW Nurses Association branches voted in favour of the pay and conditions offer and classification review offer made by the NSW health department. The first 3.9% pay rise will happen in early July. There are some improvements to conditions; notably, part-timers can choose to increase their contracted hours to the average actually worked over the preceding 12 months.
Against the split in the Aboriginal rights campaign
I am writing to protest the actions of those who walked out of the Sydney Aboriginal Rights Coalition (ARC) on June 23 to set up a rival group. This split is damaging to the movement against the
There have been nationwide protests against the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) governments decision to raise the prices of petrol, diesel and cooking gas.
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