A factual coverage of an event or events
Union members may be interested to hear that legislation to repeal WorkChoices will be introduced on Tuesday, 25 Nov 2008.
The deputy Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, will introduce ‘Fair Work’ legislation in the Federal parliament to repeal WorkChoices and rewrite the Workplace Relations Act that was introduced in the parliament in 1996 at the beginning of the Howard era.… Go to Article
Presently workers at QRail are discussing new enterprise agreements. In June 2008 QR signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with unions setting down rules for the current round of enterprise bargaining as agreements expire towards the end of 2008.… Go to Article
Come along to our last Foco Nuevo for the year and celebrate!
JUMPING FENCES
MIC TRAVERS BAND
MARK SHORTIS AND FRIENDS
AHIMSA HOUSE
26 Horan Street, West End
Friday 28th November
8.00 p.m.… Go to Article
Worklife members,
See the attached note re a union rally to be held on December 2 in support of the ABCC campaign.… Go to Article
To ABC Television
re Infamous Victory, Ben Chifley’s Battle for Coal
TV programme ABC1 6/11/08 8.30pm
The ABC and Bob Ellis are obviously intrigued by the story of the 1949 Coal Strike – revisiting it once more with Chifley and the two Ross brothers as the main protagonists – First came, ” The True Believers” and now “Infamous Victory, Ben Chifley’s Battle for Coal” 6/11/08.… Go to Article
DAVID ROVICS and ALISTAIR HULET
Sunday the 21st of December 2008
AHIMSA House 6.30 pm. (BYO)
Phone 0400 912550 for bookings
Tickets $25/20
The Scots singer and songwriter, Alistair Hulett, http://www.alistairhulett.com/… Go to Article
We are not terrorists.
… Go to ArticleStatement from people in Villawood
Saturday Nov8
After months and sometimes years of indignant treatment, the detainees of the Villawood Immigration and Detention Centre announce a general hunger strike demanding that this open ended policy of indefinite indignity ends.
An afternoon discussion on the government’s response to the NTER Review.
In particular we will look at a brief history of the ‘outstations’ movement, community-run programs in the NT, and why the government continues to refuse funding for remote Aboriginal communities and how the ‘End the Intervention’ campaign should respond.… Go to Article
Izzat Abdulhadi the Ambassador of Palestine (and Head of the General Delegation of Palestine to Australia, New Zealand and Pacific) will be attending a multicultural dinner in Brisbane on 14th November 2008 with Senator Chris Evans, Minister of Immigration and Citizenship (and will be leaving Brisbane on Sunday afternoon 16th November).… Go to Article
On Thursday 23 – Sunday 26 October 2008 an International indigenous
solidarity gathering was held in Melbourne, Australia. The gathering
has featured speakers from Aboriginal Australia, Latin America, Asia
and the Pacific.… Go to Article
To: The Honourable the Speaker and Members of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland
The petition of the citizens of Queensland draws to the attention of the House the conviction of Lex Patrick Wotton on charges relating to the Palm Island riot on the 26th day of November, 2004.… Go to Article
Jumping Fences invites you to Foco Nuevo where we present a mix of musical styles that extends the folk tradition. This regular music event is held on the last Friday of each month and features a diversity of guest singer-songwriters and musicians.… Go to Article
… Go to Article‘Come on people, we can’t accept this’ — Lex Wotton, 26 November 2004, at Palm Island Community Meeting after Mulrunji was killed by Snr Sgt Hurley.
by Pamela Curr, Campaign coordinator, Asylum Seeker Resource Centre
Dear Friends,
This is not a refugee story- It is a story about Australians- Indigenous Australians.… Go to Article
In 1977 the largest mass arrest of people in Australian history occurred in Queensland. The Bjelke Petersen government was in power.… Go to Article
KATHY BOWLEN, PRESENTER: When Melbourne University Vice-Chancellor Glyn Davis bought into the debate about Victoria’s housing crisis earlier this year, he can’t have known that a group of his students were planning a public statement of their own.… Go to Article
In Celebration of a big, wonderful life…
Bert Nord, a long time leftie in Brisbane; an activist in the Transport Workers Union, former member of the CPA and an enthusiastic member of the Bushwackers, as well as real great bloke, died on Tuesday 7th.… Go to Article
CONTENTS
1) Photos from “Hammered by the Irish” benefit Gig for Anti-War Prisoners Dublin, Oct 9th.
2) Reflections on the Oct 9 Benefit Gig – “Community Building as Basis of Resisting Wholesale & Retail Violence!”… Go to Article
You are cordially invited to the launch of a new book published by Leftpress:
AFTER THE WATERFRONT —
The Workers are Quiet
A critique of Australian industrial relations since the momentous waterfront dispute of 1998.… Go to Article
WE have mentioned previously the option of running a few more stalls to publicise the campaign against the ABCC.
ABCC stall is held at West End Markets in Brisbane at Davies Park Cnr Montague and Jane Sts West End
Please note the dates for these stalls –
Saturday 1 November
Saturday 22 November… Go to Article
Quotes from participants, media and judges telling their side of the dispute
One of the miners who was there wrote this about the 1908 Broken Hill Dispute:
… Go to Article“The mounted men, like their predecessors, were armed with carbines and revolvers…everything was orderly and the line of route was the same we had traversed many times before.
For coverage of this important trial click on
To understand why Lex Wotton has been charged see the Workers BushTelegraph article Mulrunji
… Go to Article
Jumping Fences are playing this Sunday at the Queensland Multicultural Festival.
3pm – 3.20pm at Roma St Parkland
We will be playing as a five piece band, with Sue (guitar and vocals), Lachlan (bass), Ross Gwyther (tenor sax and clarinet), James Harper (percussion) and Dan Simpson (drums).… Go to Article
Report from Workplace Express (an IR Club web publication)
08 October 2008 4:20pm
The AIRC has rebuffed an attempt by Australia Post to establish a connection between the CEPU and left-wing community protest group Union Solidarity.… Go to Article
