LL:DDV: Melb Protest against Bush
STOP BUSH'S WAR troops out if Iraq! No free Trade Agreement Melbourne Protest: Wed. Oct 22, 5.00pm State Library,City On October 22, the day before George Bush speaks at Parliament house in Canberra, cities across Australia will protest. Buses will leave that evening from Melbourne to the Canberra protest on Oct 23 for more information call: 9639 8622, Margarita 0438 869 790, Tom 0408519 152 (Stop Bush's War Committee) -- -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archived at http://www.cat.org.au/lists/leftlink/ Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Sub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
LL:DDN: Dr Vandana Shiva on Beyond Corporate Globalisation
http://www.active.org.au/sydney/calendar/?display=zoomevent=1419 Dr Vandana Shiva lecture on Beyond Corporate Globalisation 6:30pm Monday 20 October @ EASTERN AVENUE AUDITORIUM, Sydney Uni Contact: Matt Hall, Centre for Human Aspects of Science and Technology (CHAST) http://www.scifac.usyd.edu.au/chast/ Dr. Vandana Shiva is physicist, feminist, philosopher of science, writer and science policy advocate, activist for biodiversity conservation and farmers' rights, and Alternative Nobel Prize winner 1993. http://www.VShiva.net/ [Supra-postgrad] Re: Templeton Lecture 2003 announcement Dear All, Some more details about the Templeton Lecture: I have heard this morning that Dr Vandana Shiva's title is: Beyond Corporate Globalisation, towards Earth Democracy. The Lecture will take place in the EASTERN AVENUE AUDITORIUM, Sydney Uni at 6.30pm on Monday, 20 October. Thank you for publiicising it. Regards, Michael Thomas -- Each year, the Centre for Human Aspects of Science and Technology (CHAST) awards the prestigious Templeton Lecture. This years awardee is Dr. Vandana Shiva. The lecture will be held in the Eastern Avenue lecture theatre from 6:30 pm, on Monday 20th October. Dr. Vandana Shiva ( http://www.vshiva.net/ ), physicist, feminist, philosopher of science, writer and science policy advocate, is founder and Director of The Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Natural Resource Policy, a movement for biodiversity conservation and farmers' rights. She serves as an ecology advisor to organisations including the Third World Network and the Asia Pacific People's Environment Network. In 1993 she was the recipient of the Right Livelihood Award, commonly known as the Alternative Nobel Prize for her pioneering insights into the social and environmental costs of the dominant development process, and her ability to work with and for local people and communities. A contributing editor to the People-Centered Development Forum, she has also authored a number of books, including Water Wars (2001), Patents, Myths and Reality (2001) and Tomorrow's Biodiversity (2000). Please distribute this announcement. All are welcome! Matt Hall Centre for Human Aspects of Science and Technology (CHAST) http://www.scifac.usyd.edu.au/chast/ -- -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archived at http://www.cat.org.au/lists/leftlink/ Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Sub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
LL:ART: Crunch time for Australia's Arts and Media
The following article was published in The Guardian, newspaper of the Communist Party of Australia in its issue of Wednesday, October 8th, 2003. Contact address: 65 Campbell Street, Surry Hills. Sydney. 2010 Australia. Phone: (612) 9212 6855 Fax: (612) 9281 5795. CPA Central Committee: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Guardian: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Webpage: http://www.cpa.org.au Subscription rates on request. ** Crunch time for Australia's arts and media Geoff Morrell, Simon Burke, Quentin Dempster, John Howard, Margo Kingston, Alice McConnell, Judy Horacek and key Australian orchestra members were among Australian performers and media identities gathering at the Sydney Opera House on October 6 to make a last ditch attempt to ensure that Australia's cultural and media industries are not put up for grabs in the government's free trade negotiations with the US. It is down to the wire, said Simon Whipp, Director Equity, for the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance. To date we have had support from the Federal Government for the exclusion of Australian media and cultural industries from the free trade agreement, he said. However, negotiations with the US are set to recommence in late October and the US Government is pushing for a backdown, so we must ensure the Australian Government holds firm. The US proposal recognises trades away our cultural future by ruling that from here on in, no new provisions or structures will be needed or allowed to protect our culture or media. We live in an ever-changing world and a proposal which does not protect the right of governments to react to these changes as and when they happen will mean that future regimes are not able to support and promote Australian culture as governments have to date, Whipp said. Significant changes to technology in the future are inevitable. Governments need the flexibility to respond to these technological advances and other societal changes to continue the promotion of Australian culture to Australians and to the world. -- -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archived at http://www.cat.org.au/lists/leftlink/ Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Sub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
LL:ART: University staff to strike over university funding
The following article was published in The Guardian, newspaper of the Communist Party of Australia in its issue of Wednesday, October 8th, 2003. Contact address: 65 Campbell Street, Surry Hills. Sydney. 2010 Australia. Phone: (612) 9212 6855 Fax: (612) 9281 5795. CPA Central Committee: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Guardian: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Webpage: http://www.cpa.org.au Subscription rates on request. ** University staff to strike over university funding Universities around the nation are expected to grind to a halt on October 16, as staff hold a one-day strike over the Howard Government's draconian higher education policies. The National Tertiary Education Union and the Community and Public Sector Union have called the strike over the new policies, which will result in massive infringements of educational standards and employees' rights. by Petermac If implemented, the new policies would result in universities being able to increase their fees by 30 percent. All current limits on the extent of contract employment would be lifted and university authorities would, in effect, be called on to pressure their employees to sign individual work contracts. The Government also threatens that University funding would be cut if a university agreed to introduce employee wages and conditions better than the current community standard, in effect, blocking any future improvements in wages and conditions over that level. The government recently announced that university funding would be conditional on them introducing new measures in conformity with its policies. At the time of the announcement, the Senate of Sydney University was about to sign a new workplace agreement with their staff which would have set a precedent for other universities. The agreement included improvements in conditions, for example, the introduction of new maternity leave provisions. However, the announcement caused the Senate to postpone signing the agreement and, as a result, many new agreements at other universities have been cancelled or postponed. Maternity leave The loss of the new provisions regarding maternity leave will impose particular hardships on women employees and students. As Suzanne Hammond, Federal Women's Industrial Officer, recently pointed out: Women in the sector stand to lose their superior entitlements to maternity leave, family leave, higher superannuation contributions and other benefits. The removal of protection of casual workers would see many full-time and part-time jobs transferred to casual employment with little protection. The national president of the NTEU, Carolyn Allport, points out that the government's position on university employment contradicts the Workplace Relations Act, which bars third parties from involvement in enterprise bargaining. She commented: In this case the government is the third party. It is intervening against its own workplace relations legislation. Excluding students The government's policies will also exclude many students from gaining a university position. The deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of Western Australia, Alan Robson, stated last week that the government's demand that over-enrolments be eliminated means that some 8000 students would probably be denied entry to university. He noted that universities currently receive $2700 to educate marginally funded students in over-enrolled courses, as opposed to some $10,000 for fully-funded students. There are now some 33,000 positions in the over-enrolled courses, of which the government proposes to fully fund 25,000, leaving a shortfall of 8000 positions. Mr Robson said that he expected these students to be turned away, because the government is not going to fund you for over-enrolments. These and other obstacles will pose particular difficulties for women students. As Suzanne Hammond noted, A woman who intends to spend some of her working life in part-time employment can expect to pay 23 percent more for gaining a qualification. Many women may decide that it is just not worth it! This is a backward step in gaining gender equality. Gaining a place in a university will be made harder by the new requirements. Given the operation of the law of supply and demand, it is expected that the score needed by school students to gain university entry will rise significantly if the number of available university places falls. Solidarity The president of the National Union of students, Daniel Kyriacou says, Students will either miss out on university places or pay dearly if they get a place under these so-called reforms. The Council of Postgraduate Associations has said its members will walk off the universities in support of the university employees' strike, and the National Union of Students is considering doing the same thing. Howard's new Minister for Workplace Relations, Kevin Andrews has indicated that he will retain the policies imposed by his
