Workers Issues in Australia & the Pacific
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14 May 2016
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Looking for Grace—a strangely cold story about a teenager leaving home
By John Harris, 9 May 2016
The movie centres on the efforts of a lower middle-class couple to find their runaway teenage daughter and only child.
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7 May 2016
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30 April 2016
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16 April 2016
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Black lung disease reemerges in Australian coal mines
By Richard Phillips, 11 April 2016
Increased workloads, inadequate mine ventilation and low dust-testing standards have produced a sudden jump in the number of coal miners suffering from black lung.
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9 April 2016
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2 April 2016
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26 March 2016
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12 March 2016
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5 March 2016
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Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
27 February 2016
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20 February 2016
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6 February 2016
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30 January 2016
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23 January 2016
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16 January 2016
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Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
9 January 2016
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4 January 2016
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Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
19 December 2015
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12 December 2015
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5 December 2015
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21 November 2015
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Force of Destiny—a thoughtful film about surviving cancer
By Richard Phillips, 16 November 2015
Australian filmmaker Paul Cox’s first dramatic feature in seven years explores some of the complex emotional issues confronting those fighting cancer.
“Cinema must have a social conscience”
Veteran filmmaker Paul Cox discusses his latest feature
By Richard Phillips, 16 November 2015
Australian writer and director speaks about Force of Destiny, his artistic approach, concerns about militarism and the commercial pressures on filmmakers.
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14 November 2015
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17 October 2015
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10 October 2015
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3 October 2015
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26 September 2015
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19 September 2015
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12 September 2015
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5 September 2015
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Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
29 August 2015
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New Zealand rail company prepares further job cuts
By our reporter, 22 August 2015
Successive Labour and National-led governments, assisted by the unions, have already devastated the railway system over the past three decades.
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22 August 2015
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15 August 2015
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Australian warehouse workers defy court order to end strike
By our correspondents, 13 August 2015
The Woolworths workers have become the second group of strikers currently defying return to work orders, following similar votes by Hutchison Port workers Brisbane and Sydney.
New Zealand Meat Workers Union calls off two-day strike
By John Braddock, 12 August 2015
The unions have been operating from the outset to isolate and wear down workers in the protracted 18-month dispute over AFFCO’s demands for further cuts to working conditions.
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
25 July 2015
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18 July 2015
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4 July 2015
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13 June 2015
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16 May 2015
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2 May 2015
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Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
25 April 2015
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18 April 2015
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Mass strike by Vietnamese shoe workers
By Ben McGrath, 6 April 2015
As many as 90,000 workers conducted a week-long strike against a government attack on their social insurance benefits.
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28 March 2015
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21 March 2015
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14 March 2015
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7 March 2015
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28 February 2015
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Australian prime minister’s leadership continues to unravel
By Mike Head, 26 February 2015
Underlying the destabilisation is mounting business dissatisfaction with the Abbott government’s failure to impose deep cuts to social spending and workers’ wages and conditions.
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21 February 2015
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14 February 2015
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7 February 2015
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31 January 2015
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17 January 2015
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10 January 2015
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3 January 2015
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27 December 2014
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Toyota Australia details restructuring plans after 2017 shutdown
By Will Morrow, 6 December 2014
The trade unions have been the key accomplices of the companies, along with state and federal governments, in organising the shutdown of the auto industry.
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29 November 2014
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15 November 2014
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Australia: Wages slashed to boost corporate profits
By Terry Cook, 1 November 2014
The cost-cutting drive is intensifying amid the implosion of the mining boom, with export prices falling sharply and thousands of jobs being destroyed by mine closures.
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1 November 2014
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11 October 2014
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4 October 2014
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30 August 2014
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23 August 2014
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Australia: Sydney university staff and students oppose job cuts
By Zac Hambides, 14 August 2014
Sydney university students and staff are being diverted into another round of bankrupt appeals to the campus administration and the Labor opposition to stop job cuts.
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9 August 2014
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2 August 2014
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Australian government report outlines dismantling of welfare system
By Richard Phillips, 1 July 2014
The proposed measures would see thousands of people forced into deeper poverty and low-wage employment.
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28 June 2014
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21 June 2014
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7 June 2014
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17 May 2014
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Australia: Plunging coal prices herald new mine closures and job cuts
By Terry Cook, 5 May 2014
Over the past two years, coal producers have already slashed 12,000 jobs, including 8,000 in Queensland alone.
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19 April 2014
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22 March 2014
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22 February 2014
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15 February 2014
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8 February 2014
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Australian government refuses assistance to SPC fruit cannery
By Will Morrow, 1 February 2014
Prime Minister Tony Abbott made clear that the decision was part of a strategy to enforce restructuring throughout manufacturing.
Falling Australian jobs growth points to deepening slump
By Terry Cook, 27 January 2014
Full-time jobs fell in 2013 for the first time since the 2008 crash, and jobs growth was the weakest since the 1991-92 recession.
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
18 January 2014
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11 January 2014
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Australia: Report foreshadows collapse of mining construction jobs
By Dragan Slavkov, 6 January 2014
Even though the mining industry employs just 2 percent of the workforce, almost another 8 percent of workers are in associated industries.
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4 January 2014
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Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
28 December 2013
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Australia’s auto closures pose need for a global workers’ strategy
By Mike Head, 20 December 2013
The ending of production in an entire country is a concentrated expression of the ongoing, ruthless restructuring of the global auto industry.
Australian government rescinds childcare and aged care pay rises
By Will Morrow, 14 December 2013
The decision will ensure that these workers remain among the worst-paid and most exploited sections of the working class.
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
14 December 2013
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7 December 2013
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16 November 2013
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Australia: Unemployment rises as major companies axe jobs
By Terry Cook, 9 November 2013
The latest official figures show the workforce has shrunk over the past six months and the process of casualisation is continuing.
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