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Wayne Swan performs OK on Meet the Press this morning on the super-profit tax. Kevin Rudd political fighter is back (mostly) trying to get out that he has been consulting for ages. Martin Ferguson makes sense on TV. Labor’s political campaigns in both marginal seats and ‘safe’ Labour seats has to be strong against the [...]

Passage of paid parental leave scheme is an historic achievement for Australia’s working mums 17 June, 2010 | ACTU Media Release Australian working mothers will have better health and financial security after the historic passage of the first national paid parental leave scheme, say unions. ACTU President Sharan Burrow said the passing of the Bill [...]

Save VCA campaign comes to canberra. In its last sitting week, Members of Parliament from all sides of politics will be visited by a cavalcade of artists and performers from the Victorian College of the Arts and Music. The visit by the Faculty’s students, staff and alumni on Tuesday 22 June will raise awareness about [...]

Interesting… This is from MRZine. ‘Position Statement of Old Revolutionaries on the Present Upsurge of Worker Action in China by Li Chengrui, et al.’ Translator’s note: “Regarding the present upsurge of worker action in China, liberals have used their discursive power in the overseas media to frame the strike wave as a tale of workers’ [...]

I attended the Search Conference and meant to post earlier the Conference Declaration A Left Action Plan: From global crisis to green future … ‘The Australian people are caught in the ongoing global economic, social and political crisis and an even more profound global environmental crisis. The federal Labor government responded quickly and positively to [...]

Light in Darkness: Mondragon and the Global Economic Meltdown by Race Mathews The current economic crisis will not have been in vain if the world is reminded that grass roots initiative can triumph even over seemingly overwhelming adversity. In the aftermath of the devastation of the Basque region of Spain in the Spanish Civil War, [...]

Millennium Development Goals – What have we Achieved and What Happens after 2015? by Peter Jennings APHEDA http://www.apheda.org.au/ For the first time in recorded human history, all the nations in the world agreed to work together to halve global poverty, and set specific benchmarks to measurer whether they achieved it or not. The set concrete [...]

There are many statements to make. Here is one amongst many from unions. ‘State Council meeting of the Electrical Trades Union Queensland Branch confirms the following: 1. A detailed report about the 2010 Union Aid Abroad – APHEDA study tour to the Middle East, particularly The West Bank & Gaza Strip was received today. That [...]

CFMEU on corporate mining hysteria http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4PcQfz0MfU AWU corporate lies http://www.awu.net.au/ http://www.awu.net.au/629531.html minebosseslies@nat.awu.net.au