Members of the Communist Party of Australia marched through the streets of Sydney last weekend to protest against the Rees Government and their plans to sell of a raft of publicly owned assets.
On average, one building worker is killed in Australia every week. If it weren’t for unions like the CFMEU keeping employers in check, this statistic could be even worse. But thanks to Howard-era anit-worker policy, unions are finding it more and more difficult to organise on the job.
In this, the first of a three-part series, we take issue with the Australian Building & Construction Commission (ABCC) and its use of coercive powers against building workers and their unions. CFMEU National Secretary Dave Noonan talks to us about the ABCC and its role as a virtual secret police force in the building industry.
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While its supporters argue that Mike Rann’s state government has no choice but to build a desalination plant at Port Stanvac in the Gulf of St. Vincent, the plant’s opponents argue that its impact on the marine environment alone is reason enough to pull the plug on the project. They maintain that there is an obvious alternative. Tune in to find out more.
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In this episode we discuss the sacking of 1850 workers by Australian company Pacific Brands.
The first in a new series of podcasts from the Communist Party of Australia (SA). In this episode we speak with CPA State Secretary Bob Briton about the recent bushfires in Victoria and the subsequent response from the community.
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In this week’s edition we discuss the situation in remote Aboriginal communities and the reactionary response from the Howard government. We also talk about the relationship between the ALP and the trade union movement and we pay tribute to Cuban revolutionary Vilma Espin Guillois.
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In this week’s Guardian Podcast we speak with South Australian Correspondent Bob Briton about the United States and Australia’s complicity in the torturing of war prisoners under the US policy of ‘extraordinary rendition’. Bob also gives us some background on the way the Australian government spends it’s foreign aid in the Asia-Pacific region. You can subscribe to the online edition of the Guardian here.
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In this week’s episode of the Guardian Podcast we preview articles on the ALP’s backdown on the total scrapping of the ‘Work Choices’ legislation, the current investigations into the deaths of the five journalists known as the Balibo Five, who were murdered in East Timor in 1975 and we briefly discuss the controversy surrounding the shutting down of anti-Chavez TV station RCTV in Venezuela.
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This week we discuss some issues around Sorry Day and the lack of improvements in Aboriginal helath care during the rein of the Howard Government. We discuss the political advertisements and the use of taxpayers money to spend up big prior to elections and also on the subject of health care we discuss Cuba’s role in assiting the East Timorese over recent years.
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