Sister Pat arrived back in Australia amidst a crowd of Filipino and Australian friends coming from various organisations, like Migrante Australia and the Philippines Australia Solidarity Association (PASA), bearing placards and streamers welcoming her, thanking her for her genuine service to the poor and oppressed Filipinos, whilst protesting President Duterte’s harassment and attacks on critics and those who oppose his fascist and dictatorial rule. Continue reading Migrante Australia welcomes Sister Pat back to Australia→
Immigration officials are secretly shifting asylum seeker families from Nauru to Adelaide as part of an operation to remove all children from the island’s regional refugee processing centre.
Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, who will be in Australia next week to receive the Sydney peace prize on 15 November and talk about the lessons the rest of the world can learn from America’s mistakes, was interviewed by Gareth Hutchens. This was published in the Guardian 5 November 2018. Stiglitz will also be speaking at the Athenaeum Theatre in Melbourne on 19 November
Coal seam gas extraction (fracking) remains a serious threat to Australia, despite the campaign against it stalling the rise of this industry for a while. Companies involved are still working on pressing ahead. Some of the nation’s best growing food areas are being targeted. People power can stop it.
This article published in The Age (29 October 2018) and written by Anna Patty, refers to research revealing that migrants workers are being used as a chap source of labour in agricultural seasonal work, and in hospitality and retail. To do this, employers are holding back wages and other monetary entitlements.
Saudi Arabia, is being backed by the United States and the other of the feudal kingdom’s supporters, including Australia, in the carrying out of a genocidal war that is targeting civilians. Following is a graphic illustration of the impact of a recent air strike.
Among those who know something about it, the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) is very unpopular. The suggestion that it is about corporate greed trying to impose a multinational agenda that is not in the interests of the countries concerned is often made. Continue reading The Trans-Pacific Partnership is just plain no good→
Official site of the May Day Committee (Malbourne)
