Australia
Australia: New South Wales teachers stop-work against devolution agenda
By our reporters, May 25, 2012
Devolving powers to school principals is part of Labor’s misnamed “education revolution”, which has imposed student performance testing and the publication of ranking tables.
Australia: Bowen Basin coal miners resume strike action
By Richard Phillips, May 24, 2012
Miners at Bowen Basin pits in Queensland have walked out in dispute over a new enterprise agreement.
Australia: Qantas axes jobs and maintenance base
By Terry Cook, May 23, 2012
Qantas is eliminating hundreds of maintenance jobs, confident of ongoing collaboration with the airline unions.
Australia: Official employment rate hides real extent of joblessness
By Terry Cook, May 22, 2012
The ongoing job destruction undermines government claims that “more Australians were at work than ever before.”
Australia: Thomson’s speech fuels political instability
By Patrick O’Connor, May 22, 2012
Craig Thomson’s hour-long address to parliament yesterday, defending himself against corruption allegations, has only further fuelled the crisis confronting the minority Labor government.
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
May 19, 2012
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
Australia: TAFE teachers and students protest Victorian budget cuts
By Margaret Rees, May 15, 2012
Entire courses will soon be eliminated, and some students will face a quadrupling of fees, making vocational education unaffordable for many working class youth.
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
May 12, 2012
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
SEP (Australia) congress resolutions
May 11, 2012
In the course of the congress, SEP delegates unanimously adopted the seven resolutions published below.
Australia: Police attack protesters at Sydney University
By James Cogan, May 9, 2012
The use of the police against a university campus protest underscores the nervousness of both the administration and the Labor government at the stirrings of student opposition to a deepening offensive on tertiary education.
SEP (Australia) first national congress
Resolution 4: Oppose the US-Australia military agreement
May 9, 2012
The following is the second of seven resolutions passed unanimously at the first national congress of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia) held from April 6 to 9, 2012 in Sydney (see: “Australian SEP holds first national congress”).See resolutions 1, 2, 3, 5, 6 and 7.
Australia: Public sector layoffs, spending cuts in Victorian budget
By Tania Baptist, May 7, 2012
The sackings, which will mark the first compulsory public sector redundancies in the state since the 1990s, form part of a $2.9 billion cut to public spending in Victoria.
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