Right now the Rudd Government is looking to drop paid maternity leave from 2009′s federal budget. Opinion polls, talk back radio and letters to editor clearly show time after time that Australians support government-funded paid maternity leave. From the YRAW campaign. The DPM’s own experts, the Productivity Commission, has said that government-funded paid maternity leave [...]
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A pensioner replies
The ALP’s ditching of social equality has come back to bite it on the stimulus package. On 8 December, single pensioners will find $1400 in our bank accounts. A survey has shown that 40% of recipients are planning not to spend the grant. Instead, we will protect ourselves against the crisis in capital accumulation turning [...]
Safe work week
Safe Work Week timely reminder of human cost of workplace tragedies and need for strong OHS laws Friday, 24 October 2008 from ACTU The unacceptably high human cost of workplace death and injury highlights the need for stronger national workplace health and safety laws, the ACTU said today. As union members around the country hold [...]
Australia destroys its own Stonehenge
Australia destroys its own Stonehenge: First images showing full impact of Woodside’s new LNG plant in the heart of the Burrup Peninsula, Western Australia. http://www.standupfortheburrup.com/1.jpg Friends of Australian Rock Art is today releasing recent aerial photographs which show for the first time the full extent of Woodside’s destruction of a globally significant rock art area [...]
Safe Work Australia?
Safe Work Australia – Joint Greens, Coalition & Xenophon statement The Deputy Prime Minister is walking away from safety consultation at the highest level by refusing to incorporate the Senate amendments in the Safe Work Australia Bill. An unlikely alliance of the Greens, the Independents and the Coalition says that Julia Gillard is turning her [...]
Nothing if you are made redundant
An ALP government insisting there be no redundancy entitlements for millions of working families! This is another outrage. The Rudd government’s vigorous hard-line to keep WorkChoices to appease employer interests is denying any redundancy pay to workers who work for businesses under 15. With this severe capitalist financial crisis, these are the precarious workers already [...]
Stop proposed uranium sales to Russia
At this time, Australia can be careful and not sell uranium to Russia – a country that fails to comply with their nuclear disarmament obligations under the Non Proliferation Treaty and has the world’s largest arsenal of nuclear weapons. On September 18, parliament’s Joint Standing Committee on Treaties gave arguments on their merits for the [...]
Get Up in Canberra for the environment
Momentum is building for real government and civil society action to address the world’s serious environmental crisis. One such organisation is Get-Up. This Sunday morning, in Canberra’s fine spring weather, Get Up orange clad activists and their children gathered to welcome the environmental climate torch relay, and with songs, and speeches. Bob Brown was in [...]
After black friday… if she blows!
If she blows? by Humphrey McQueen 11 October If it is dodgy to speculate about the timing of, or the immediate trigger for a depression, six consequences can be predicted with almost 100% accuracy. >Above all, a collapse of real existing capitalism is not going to move the world one toenail closer towards being a [...]
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