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Australia: Step up the fight against casualisation
Almost a third of Australian workers are employed in casual jobs. If you include labour hire and short-term contract work, insecure jobs make up 40% of the workforce.
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Migration: Why refugees seek asylum in Australia
Interview with Siritunga Jayasuriya, Sri Lankan socialist leader
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Australia: Poultry workers strike for decent pay and conditions
Violence and intimidation from management and police
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Australia: Qantas management tries to lockout workers
Most vicious attack on unions in 13 years
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Australia: The one sided mining boom
Review of “Too much luck” by Paul Cleary
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Australia/Sri Lanka: Sri Lankan government under fire as President visits Australia
Siritunga Jayasuriya, secretary of the United Socialist Party (CWI) Sri Lanka, has made a stinging public attack on the regime of Mahinda Rajapaksa while in Australia at the same time as the president.
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Australia: ‘Occupy Melbourne’ savaged by riot police
Brutal assault as protesters hold their ground and block city streets
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Australia: Failed ‘welfare quarantine’ measures to be extended
Attacks first tested on Aboriginal population now implemented on all
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Australia: Coalition attacks public sector workers in New South Wales
Premier of New South Wales (NSW) want to "take on" public sector
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Australia: 2011 Socialist Party Conference a success
The weekend of May 6/7/8 saw members of the Socialist Party from all around Australia gather at Trades Hall in Melbourne for the annual National Conference.