Workers Issues in Australia & the Pacific
Ford Australia’s closure demonstrates need for a global auto workers’ strategy
By the Socialist Equality Party (Australia), 6 October 2016
Ford’s shutdown of its Australian production tomorrow is one of the final nails in the coffin of an entire industry, at the hands of the transnational auto companies.
Australian brewery still operating as unions isolate sacked workers
By Frank Gaglioti and Chris Sinnema, 24 September 2016
The trade unions have opposed any unified industrial and political action to win reinstatement of the Carlton & United Breweries maintenance workers.
Australia: Thousands more jobs being destroyed
By Terry Cook, 24 September 2016
Better-paying jobs are being eliminated throughout mining-related and manufacturing industries.
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17 September 2016
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27 August 2016
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Decades-long cover-up of “black lung” among Australian miners
By Oscar Grenfell, 20 August 2016
Reports of cases pre-date the official rediscovery of the disease in Queensland last year.
Full-time jobs and wages falling in Australia
By Mike Head, 20 August 2016
Part-time work is becoming the “new normal” for growing layers of workers, with devastating consequences for living standards.
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20 August 2016
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13 August 2016
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Australian central bank chief insists on “difficult” budget cuts
By Mike Head, 12 August 2016
The Reserve Bank governor said politicians had to move more swiftly to impose the burden of the post-2008 crisis on the working class.
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6 August 2016
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30 July 2016
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23 July 2016
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“Cinema has the potential to make us richer in spirit”—filmmaker Paul Cox (1940–2016)
By Richard Phillips, 11 July 2016
Cox directed over 40 dramatic features and documentaries—the overwhelming majority on paper-thin budgets—during his more than forty-year career.
Australian election: Another Labor war-monger runs for parliament
By Patrick Kelly, 2 July 2016
Khalil is well known within Washington foreign policy, military and diplomatic circles.
Australian politicians appeal for “strong government” after Brexit vote
By Mike Head, 28 June 2016
Nervous pleas for a “stable” majority government have been accompanied by corporate media demands for harsh austerity measures.
SEP rallies present socialist answer to war and austerity
By our reporters, 28 June 2016
For the first time, the SEP streamed the Sydney meeting live on its Facebook page, enabling people to participate across Australia and internationally.
US presidential candidate Jerry White addresses SEP election rallies in Australia
28 June 2016
Jerry White spoke to Australian audiences on the need for the international unity of the working class against war, inequality and the capitalist system.
Participants at SEP rallies speak about war, Brexit, the social crisis
By our reporters, 28 June 2016
Workers and youth attending the Socialist Equality Party’s final election meetings in Australia discuss major political and historical questions.
25 April: Animated documentary on New Zealand’s role in the Gallipoli invasion
By Sam Price and Tom Peters, 25 June 2016
The film shows the horrors of war but fails to challenge the nationalist mythology surrounding the Anzacs.
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25 June 2016
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SEP election campaign team visits lead-affected suburb
By our reporters, 21 June 2016
What has happened in Boolaroo typifies the corporate and government contempt for the health and safety of workers and their families.
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18 June 2016
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Defend the rights of New Zealanders in Australia! Support the Socialist Equality Party!
By the Socialist Equality Group (New Zealand), 11 June 2016
The SEP is the only party in the Australian election that intransigently opposes all forms of nationalism and defends the basic rights of refugees and immigrants.
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11 June 2016
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Australian election: SEP candidates campaign against war
By our reporters, 31 May 2016
Workers and young people denounced the billions being squandered on the military and the bipartisan assault on education, healthcare and jobs.
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21 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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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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26 March 2016
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27 February 2016
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20 February 2016
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19 December 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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26 September 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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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.
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25 July 2015
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25 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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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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31 January 2015
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17 January 2015
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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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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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