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March on Palm Sunday for justice for refugees
Adelaide 2pm, Victoria Square, march to Parliament House Facebook event here
Month: March 2018
Unions
Melbourne wharfies walk off and defend jobs and conditions at Qube
By Ben Wilson The Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) says members at Qube’s Melbourne Bulk and General operation are facing a cut to wages by at least 40 percent and the removal of a range […]
Economy
Australia is losing $90 billion in taxes not paid by oil and gas companies
By Jim Hayes In one of a suite of new submissions to a Senate inquiry, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies academic Juan Carlos Boué warned that unless Australia “radically overhauled its fiscal regime,” it would […]
Centrelink
Blind girl with epilepsy wrongly denied thousands of dollars in NDIS support
The following is by Christopher Knaus and published by the Guardian Australia 13 March 2018 An 11-year-old girl in foster care in Tennant Creek, who is blind, has epilepsy and cognitive impairment, was wrongly denied national disability insurance […]
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Video: Big business has too much power
This advertisement is part of the new Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) campaign to change the rules and should be seen by everyone. This is how toady’s reality feels to millions of Australians.
Rights
Spain’s women make themselves heard
Supported by nearly every union organiation in the country 5.3 million women go on strike for 24 hours on International Women’s Day, and a large number take part in massive street marches throughout the country. […]
Rights
UN expert’s ‘astonished’ at the Turnbull government’s anti-democratic side
From the Human Rights Law Centre (I March 2018) The Turnbull Government’s anti-democratic slide has been criticised at the United Nations Human Rights Council tonight, with the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders […]
Unions
Union merger scares the hell out of the Turnbull government and its mates and encourages working Australians
By Joe Montero The merger of the Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU), Australian Maritime Union (MUA) and Textile Clothing and Footwear Union of Australia (TCFUA) passed the Fair Work Commission hurdle on Tuesday. […]
