The next meeting of the Northern Communities & Solidarity Group will discuss a range of public activities in the campaign to restore all of the rights that workers have lost under Work Choices and the Workplace Relations Act.

more info: sue_bolton@hotmail.com | 0413-377-978

Next Meeting
Monday 7pm
June 18
SAtuzies Cafe
High St Northcote

Also Worker Video Nights

This week
* Brother Can You Spare a Dime
(US in Great Depression)
Tuesday 19 June 7.15 p.m.

more info: Darebin Workers Rights & Social Justice Campaign

Two and a half thousand teachers, parents and students crowded on to the steps of Parliament House yesterday to oppose the State Labor Government's latest cuts to public education.

AEU President Andrew Gohl compared the huge reductions in payroll tax "demanded by big business€" with what the government was taking away from schools, and declared that Labor Premier Rann had forfeited the right to be called the Education Premier€.

Similar rallies were held in regional centres throughout the State. Two hundred rallied in Port Lincoln. A similar number, representing some 30 Riverland schools, rallied in Berri. There were large turnouts in other centres as well.

Despite the Parliament House rally being large enough to block eastbound traffic along North Terrace, it was completely ignored by the Murdoch-owned sole local daily, the aptly-named Advertiser.

Gohl told the crowd that Education Department bureaucrats had said that there was to be no negotiation over the cuts when they met with Principal organizations, yet the Minister had only just stated on radio that the matter hadn't been decided€ and the WorkCover issue the major source of the cuts yet to be resolved€.

He said this was testimony to the pressure already applied by the decision to hold an after-hours rally, but that if the matter was not properly resolved in the bext week or so, teachers would be balloted for a strike.

more info: http://mike-servethepeople.blogspot.com

12 Noon Sunday
17th June
Yallourn Embassy
Yallour Power Station Old workshop.
Off Old Yallourn North Rd.

All Welcome.

more info: Donation Request Form | http://gippslandtlc.com.au/

Labels: Yallorn

From the Heart, For the Heartland

Traditional Owners Speak Out: NO Radioactive Waste Dump in the NT

Melbourne Public Meeting
Monday June 18, 6pm
Trades Hall, New Council Chambers

Speakers~art~photos~films

Speakers include:

• Mt Everard traditional owners Audrey McCormack
• Harts Range community members Priscilla Williams and Mitch
• Muckaty traditional owner Dianne Stokes
• Kalumpurlpa community member Steve Atkinson
• <>Top End Aboriginal Conservation Alliance (TEACA) coordinator Donna Jackson
• <>Katherine No Dump Action Group members Vina Hornsby and Petrina Ariston

more info: Natalie: 0429 900 774 | natwasley@alec.org.au

Clean Start- Fair Deal for Cleaners
Friday 15th June
11:45am Hyde Park North (Sydney)
Archibald Fountain

The Clean Start campaign has come a long way, thanks to the solidarity from unions, students, & the general community. We still need your support, so cleaners can get fair pay and decent
working conditions. Bring your flags, whistles, drums and placards, we'll be making some
noise!

The Unity of Working People is the Hope of the World

more info: Luke (Liquor Hospitality Miscellaneous Union) (02) 8204 7204 | 0425 214 731 |
lukew@lhmu.org.au | www.lhmu.org.au

No Radioactive Waste Dump In The NT

Traditional Owners Speak Out

Adelaide - Melbourne - Canberra - Sydney

speakers - art - photos - films

Melbourne Public Meeting
June 18 6pm
New Council Chambers
Trades Hall Carlton

Despite giving an absolute categorical assurance prior to the last election that the NT would not be targeted for a Federal radioactive waste dump, in June 2005 the Federal Government announced that three Department of Defence sites in the NT would be assessed for suitability.

Brendan Nelson, as Federal Science Minister, queried why on earth can't people in the middle of nowhere have [radioactive] waste?; Current Science Minister Julie Bishop remarked "all the sites in the NT are well away from houses... some distance from any form of civilisation."€

<>Protecting Community, Country and Culture
Remote areas are not uninhabited and lifeless places. Traditional Owners and community members from the proposed dump sites are travelling across the country to express their concerns of how a radioactive dump would irreversibly damage country and culture.

more info: www.nukefreeaus.org | 08 8952 2011 | natwasley@alec.org.au

Darebin Workers Rights & Social Justice Campaign

Coming Video Nights
* Brother Can You Spare a Dime
(US in Great Depression)
Tuesday 19 June 7.15 p.m.

* History of the Australian Trade Union Movement
Tuesday 3 July 7.15 p.m.

Where?
Northcote Library Meeting Room
Separation St Northcote
across from the Northcote Plaza
Light refreshment and discussion

Mourn for the death of justice in Queensland
Rally,
12:30 pm Friday
22 June
Steps of the old GPO (Bourke St Mall)

Speak out and march to State Parliament

Wear black or indigenous colours

more info: Land lines 9639-8622 or 9388-0062 | Cheryl 0401-806-331 | Sean: 0428-160-661

"The acquittal of Snr-Sgt Chris Hurley - despite him admitting he caused Mulrunji's death, despite him changing his story, despite overwhelming medical evidence likening Mulrunji's fatal injuries to a high-speed car crash - is the lowest point in Australia's judicial system for Aboriginal people," said Aboriginal leader and Socialist Alliance Indigenous spokesperson Sam Watson, in response to the not guilty verdict in the manslaughter trial of Hurley.

"The police rallied around their own, fixed their story of 'a complicated accident', and the 12-member non-Indigenous jury agreed," Watson continued. "This jury decision has sanctioned the unlawful death of an Aboriginal person in police custody."

"The fact that the life an Aboriginal person was worth less than four hours consideration by the jury reinforces Townsville - named after one of the last slave owners Robert Towns - as a centre of anti-Aboriginal prejudice."