Balibo (M) Director : Robert Connolly (The Bank) Starring : Anthony LaPaglia, Oscar Isaac, Damon Gameau, Gyton Grantley, Mark Leonard Winter, Nathan Phillips, Bea Viegas review by Andy Alcock The film Balibo has taken Australia by storm. For several weeks from late July to mid August, it was the subject of lively discussion on many [...]
Archive | August, 2009
ALP Conference – Boyd
ALP National Conference – The Struggle for a Working People’s Agenda Brian Boyd VTHC Secretary Between 30/31 July and 1st August in Sydney, the Australian Labor Party conducted its first national Conference since the 2007 Federal election. As with the last such Conference (July/August 2007), there was a tense struggle to win useful industrial, social [...]
Timor review
BOOK REVIEW by Andy Alcock: “THE LONG PATROL – AUSTRALIA & EAST TIMOR’S WARS” by Richard Plunkett (Black Dog Books 2008) $16.95 Since Timor Leste gained its independence in 1999, it seems that there is a never ending stream of books being written about the country. This is probably the case because not many thought [...]
Protest Aung San Suu Kyi
PROTEST LETTER TO MYANMAR’S PM RE: AUNG SAN SUU KYI General Thein Sein PM Myanmar I write to you out of deep concern at the guilty verdict of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi on August 11, 2009. This incident is the latest human rights abuse inflicted upon the Nobel Peace Prize winner, who has been [...]
Economic crisis
Not Time for Champagne Yet Post by Jim Stanford Financial headlines around the world herald the seemingly happy news that “recovery†is here. Global stock markets have surged 40 percent or more. Business confidence has shifted quickly from gloom to boom. But hold on a moment. The world economy is still suffering through its worst [...]
News from LabourStart
- Australia: BHP's aim is to break the power of unions
- Turkey: Support for Arrested KESK Women
- Ireland: IMPACT calls on Government to deliver reforms on collective bargaining and employees' rights
- Australia: Unions wrap up ACTU Congress with renewed vigour to campaign for rights at work and fairer Australia
- Colombia: Urgent Action: Colombian union leaders in danger
- Europe: IndustriALL-European Trade Union Born Today with Merger of Three Federations
- Bangladesh: Workers suffering from low wages end days of strikes and riots sparked by disappearance of trade union leader
- Switzerland: Unions hold protest at International Olympic Committee to support Canadian Rio Tinto workers
- Global: Full coverage of IUF congress in Geneva
- Turkey: Turkish Government ’s anti-democratic attack on the right to strike
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