tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-119328842024-03-14T17:44:17.114+11:00swaggiestravels here and there – and a well thumbed bookshelfUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2631125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-73764211241112575632021-05-29T13:12:00.000+10:002021-05-29T13:12:58.080+10:00Tribune How the Shrewsbury 24 Were Vindicated27.03.2021
How the Shrewsbury 24 Were Vindicated
By
Eileen Turnbull
In the 1970s, 24 construction workers were convicted for their role in a successful strike – the story behind their vindication this week reveals the degree to which the state wages war against the working class.
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Amid all the gloom on Tuesday 23 March, the first anniversary of the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-12130898595075436272021-05-14T11:07:00.001+10:002021-05-14T11:07:37.815+10:00Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-85915912686772501002021-05-14T11:03:00.000+10:002021-05-14T11:03:15.816+10:00Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-74496818533938460562021-04-14T15:09:00.000+10:002021-04-14T15:09:23.480+10:00 Commonwealth appeals ‘habeas corpus’ rulingA 'landmark' refugee legal battle is putting Australia's immigration detention regime under scrutiny
A landmark refugee rights case is underway in the High Court, and it could have major implications for
Australia’s immigration detention policies.
The federal government is appealing a ruling that led to the release of Syrian man, known as
AJL20, who was released from detention in Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-17110711845921022021-04-10T10:30:00.003+10:002021-04-10T10:30:59.248+10:00Paul BongiornoThis picture shows vials of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine and a syringe in Paris on March 11, 2021. -
Scott Morrison
October vaccination goal under threat as AstraZeneca bombshell causes rollout chaos
This picture shows vials of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine and a syringe in Paris on March 11, 2021. - European countries can keep using AstraZeneca's coronavirus vaccine during an Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-53610341990823558212021-04-10T10:24:00.001+10:002021-04-10T10:43:09.865+10:00Australian UnionsUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-14252887325326982942021-03-31T12:28:00.002+11:002021-03-31T12:28:30.388+11:00How new archaeological discovery in Yorkshire could rewrite British prehistory | The Independent
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-77843106389392356432021-03-31T12:25:00.002+11:002021-03-31T12:25:56.216+11:00Mark,
Join me at this special briefing on the implications of the Omnibus Legislation at 2pm (Eastern time) on Thursday 8 April. You can register here.
The Morrison government’s Omnibus Bill was a severe attack on workers’ rights. Drawn directly from the wish list of the big employer groups it would have had a devastating effect on working people – especially the most vulnerable.
Once againUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-17128175739463482642021-03-28T15:54:00.000+11:002021-03-28T15:54:19.754+11:00Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-23894119279166582822021-03-17T13:34:00.004+11:002021-03-17T13:34:45.158+11:00Spike Lee has again been asked to chair the Cannes Film Festival jury after last year's event
was cancelled because of the pandemic.
The Malcolm X and Do The Right Thing director will be the first black film-maker to take on the prestigious role.
Lee has premiered seven films at the festival.
"Cannes will always have a deep spot in my heart,"
he said in a video message.
This year's event Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-32675344509842560822021-03-16T15:01:00.002+11:002021-03-16T15:05:29.602+11:00 The Sydney Womens MarchUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-85156646770923553702021-03-13T15:50:00.002+11:002021-03-13T15:53:43.077+11:00 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear Human cost of the disaster remains immenseThe Morning Star
AS we mark the tenth anniversary this week of the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant,
where an earthquake and a tsunami led to a meltdown of nuclear reactors, the emission of huge amounts of
radiation and a continuing humanitarian disaster, the fact remains that only in a world with the political drive to rid itself of nuclear power can we be safe from Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-80162722882055774602021-03-13T15:35:00.000+11:002021-03-13T15:35:11.611+11:00 The Independent UKThere is nothing wrong with a U-turn if it means that a government abandons the wrong policy and adopts the right one.
The case of the proposed coal mine in Cumbria has seen such zigzagging from both the local council and the national
government that a U-turn is too simple a description.
The important point is that Boris Johnson has ended up in the right position. This week’s
confirmation Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-20380111180785707672021-03-13T15:22:00.002+11:002021-03-13T15:22:36.259+11:00Iconic 3801 RestorationAn iconic and widely adored steam locomotive from the 1940s has returned to the tracks today to the delight of rail lovers across NSW.
For the first time in almost 14 years Locomotive 3801 will run again, offering passengers a chance to return to a bygone era of rail travel.
The train is the last streamlined steam locomotive in the state and arguably the country's most famous as it's the only Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-73048618590924601712021-03-12T15:59:00.007+11:002021-03-12T15:59:54.872+11:00Wendy Bacon Imagining an Independent Inquiry into Federal Attorney General Christian Porter By Wendy Bacon, 8 March 2021Imagining an Independent Inquiry into Federal Attorney General Christian Porter
Many people, including senior lawyers, are calling for an independent Inquiry into whether Christian Porter is a fit and proper person to be the Federal Attorney-General of Australia. In Perth, a group of legal academics has referred Porter to the Legal Practice Board of Western Australia to see whether he is fit to Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-34774934950764426032021-03-12T10:29:00.001+11:002021-03-12T10:29:53.302+11:00Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-56090445320520713382021-03-12T10:27:00.000+11:002021-03-12T10:27:08.477+11:00 Trans-Tasman spat erupts after Peter Dutton refers to immigration deportees as 'trash'Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-50074362991326892382021-03-11T14:03:00.001+11:002021-03-11T14:08:47.040+11:00Lawyers call for Porter to be subjected to the same standard of accountability as others in the legal profession
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-29100331040915130512021-03-11T12:41:00.000+11:002021-03-11T12:41:34.598+11:00Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-39821236363122842952021-03-08T14:52:00.005+11:002021-03-08T14:52:54.024+11:00MEAA, the union for Australian journalists, welcomes today’s decision by a British judge to prevent
the extradition to the United States of our member Julian Assange and calls on the US government to
now drop his prosecution.
The court ruled against extradition on health grounds, accepting medical evidence that
Assange would be at risk in US custody.
However, journalists everywhere shouldUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-44001590554845330832021-03-08T14:42:00.000+11:002021-03-08T14:42:05.171+11:00Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-76910826810327588482021-03-08T12:31:00.001+11:002021-03-08T12:31:16.729+11:00 ACTU stands with NT gas plant workers fighting for fair payACTU stands with NT gas plant workers fighting for fair pay
ACTU stands with NT gas plant workers fighting for fair pay
Maintenance workers at the Ichthys Gas Plant near Darwin have taken industrial action after their
employer Trace Broad Spectrum refused to come to the table on key issues like paid leave, breaks and allowances.
Workers at the Ichthys plant are highly skilled and doing Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-37201725189514580382021-03-08T12:26:00.001+11:002021-03-08T12:26:51.615+11:00Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-70081834282364184692021-03-08T11:18:00.002+11:002021-03-08T11:18:33.302+11:00 The Morning Star ON MARCH 5 2021, we celebrate the 150th anniversary of Rosa Luxemburg’s birth.ON MARCH 5 2021, we celebrate the 150th anniversary of Rosa Luxemburg’s birth.
No-one who wishes to get a sense of Rosa Luxemburg as a person, both political and private,
will regret watching Margarethe von Trotta’s meticulously researched 1986 film of the same name.
It is available with English subtitles.
The film begins on December 7 1916 with Luxemburg in Vronke prison, cutting back to Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11932884.post-15943661530789708612021-03-08T10:53:00.000+11:002021-03-08T10:53:43.456+11:00Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0