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Education review

By on October 23, 2011 in Public Policy, Social justice

Key Challenges for the Funding Review From the AEU A new report highlights the six key challenges that must be addressed by the expert panel conducting the funding review. The Real Reform report by funding expert Dr Jim McMorrow says the funding review and the Government’s response to it early next year was critical and [...]

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OWS – Melbourne: what next

By on October 22, 2011 in Capitalist Financial Crisis, Public Policy, Social justice

In this article Tristan Ewins refutes criticisms of the “We are the 99 per cent” movement and considers tactical questions facing that movement. He also considers the implications of violent tactics on the part of police for the liberal rights of all Australians. At the time the author began writing this article (21/10/11) police in [...]

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Occupy Wall Street not Palestine

By on October 17, 2011 in Capitalist Financial Crisis, Environmental crisis, Social justice

Occupy Wall Street not Palestine! We are part of the world’s 99% yearning for freedom, justice and equal rights! Palestinian BDS National Committee The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC), the largest Palestinian civil society coalition struggling for Palestinian rights, is proud to stand in solidarity with the movements struggling for a new [...]

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Equal Pay Campaign Rises Again

By on October 16, 2011 in Capitalist Financial Crisis, Collective Bargaining, Labour Law, Public Policy, Social justice, Workers Rights

Equal Pay Campaign Rises Again by Sally McManus, NSW Secretary of the Australian Services Union (This is good example of how a union goes about organising – here the equal pay campaign. It is from the magazine Australian Options no 66) ‘The origins of the current equal pay campaign lie in the unionisation of disability [...]

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‘Red Silk’

By on October 13, 2011 in Aboriginal, Book Review, Social justice, Workers Rights

This earlier post was erased by a spam attack. Elliott Johnston has passed away. He is a working class hero.I was not able to attend the public celebration of his life in Elder Hall, Adelaide. You can get some idea of Elliott Johnston for those who did not know him in this book just published, [...]

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Stilwell on tax reform

By on October 11, 2011 in Capitalist Financial Crisis, Environmental crisis, Public Policy, Social justice

I support a campaign to pressure the Gillard Government to include in tax reform – land and resources taxes, estate duties and on international financial transactions…for starters. The priority reform areas for the tax and transfer system need to be driven by goals of economic efficiency, social justice and ecological sustainability. by Professor Frank Stilwell [...]

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ACTU on tax

By on October 4, 2011 in Capitalist Financial Crisis, Social justice, Workers Rights

Tax reform must redress imbalance against lower income Australians 03 October, 2011 | ACTU Media Release then below CFMEU on sham contracting and Taxwatch ‘Unions will strongly resist any agenda at tomorrow’s Tax Forum to reduce company taxes or increase the heavy tax burden already unfairly carried by Australia’s low and middle income earners. ACTU [...]

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Financial transactions tax

By on September 26, 2011 in Capitalist Financial Crisis, Public Policy, Social justice

Robin Hood Tax coalition submission to the Australian Tax Forum Posted on September 26th, 2011 by Ned Kelly The merry women and men at the Robin Hood Tax coalition worked with ‘Skippy’ our campaign mascot to write our submission to the Government’s upcoming Tax Forum. “The Robin Hood Tax Australia Coalition is pleased to present [...]

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Environmentalism and capitalism

By on September 26, 2011 in Capitalist Financial Crisis, Environmental crisis, Social justice

Fred Magdoff & John Bellamy Foster: ‘What every environmentalist needs to know about capitalism’ (exclusive excerpt) August 1, 2011 — Monthly Review Press has kindly given permission to Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal to publish “The growth imperative of capitalism”, an exclusive excerpt from Fred Magdoff and John Bellamy Foster’s just released What every [...]

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