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Hume council will take Bulla’s toxic soil saga to the Supreme Court. Last week, Hume councillors voted unanimously to have the council’s lawyers initiate legal proceedings to review a decision by Planning Minister Richard Wynne that could see testing and disposal of spoil from the West Gate Tunnel project at a site on Sunbury Road. As reported by Star Weekly, Mr Wynne approved Hi-Quality Group’s planning scheme amendment for the site on March 29. Council estimates the legal proceedings w...

SEG (New Zealand) meeting: Ten years after the Pike River mine disaster Political lessons in the fight for truth about the deaths of 29 miners The Socialist Equality Group (New Zealand) (SEG) will hold an online public meeting on Saturday, May 8, at 4PM NZ time, to discuss the political lessons of the Pike River mine disaster and the families’ fight for justice, in opposition to the ongoing cover-up by the state. Please click here to register to attend on Zoom. In November 2010, 29 miners wer...

Brazilian workers stage strikes and protests against COVID-19 pandemic and social crisis Workers have staged strikes and protests across Brazil against the murderous, uncontrolled spread of the COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing social crisis that has driven tens of millions into poverty. The weeks-long strikes by teachers in São Paulo against deadly school reopenings are being joined by a growing number of work stoppages by bus drivers, oil and railway workers, delivery app workers and other s...

Sunday, 18 April 2021, 4:06 pm Families of most of the 29 men who died following a series of explosions at the Pike River Coal mine in November 2010 are continuing to demand a thorough underground investigation of the disaster, in opposition to the Labour Party-Greens government’s attempt to shut it down. After more than a decade, no one has been held responsible for the disaster, despite a royal commission in 2012 finding overwhelming evidence of unsafe and illegal practices by the company,...

Press Release – Socialist Equality Group Families of most of the 29 men who died following a series of explosions at the Pike River Coal mine in November 2010 are continuing to demand a thorough underground investigation of the disaster, in opposition to the Labour Party-Greens governments … Families of most of the 29 men who died following a series of explosions at the Pike River Coal mine in November 2010 are continuing to demand a thorough underground investigation of the disaster, in o...

New Zealand: Pike River mine disaster families demand continued underground investigation Families of most of the 29 men who died following a series of explosions at the Pike River Coal mine in November 2010 are continuing to demand a thorough underground investigation of the disaster, in opposition to the Labour Party-Greens government’s attempt to shut it down. After more than a decade, no one has been held responsible for the disaster, despite a royal commission in 2012 finding overwhelmin...

Wednesday, 14 April 2021, 11:16 am Thousands of school students walked out of classes to protest throughout New Zealand on April 9 against government inaction on climate change. They were supported by many university students and workers. More than 1,000 people marched through Queen Street in Auckland, about 4,000 rallied outside parliament in Wellington, and thousands more attended events in Christchurch, Dunedin, Hamilton, New Plymouth, Tauranga, Rotorua and other towns.   It was the first n...

Tuesday, 13 April 2021, 11:01 am John Braddock New Zealand’s Labour-Green coalition government is under increasing pressure, from sections of the NZ ruling elite and from the country’s allies, over its apparent reluctance to fully endorse the escalating build-up to war against China. As the Biden administration ramps up Washington’s diplomatic and military offensive, every country is being forced into line. The furore over the Jacinda Ardern-led government’s less than full-throated supp...

Grand Rapids Business Journal Courtesy Express Employment Professionals of Grand Rapids A local branch of a national staffing firm is partnering with 125 area employers to host a job fair this week. Express Employment Professionals of Grand Rapids said it will host a job fair to fill over 500 positions from 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Wednesday at its office, 1760 44th St. SW in Wyoming. Candidates will have the chance to interview on the spot with recruiters, and immediate job offers will be made for m...

New Zealand: Pike River mine disaster families oppose government plan to end underground investigation Dean Dunbar in 2016 at the families’ blockade on the road to Pike River mine. The announcement by Andrew Little, the minister in charge of the Pike River Recovery Agency (PRRA), shocked and angered many families of the 29 men who were killed when multiple explosions tore through the mine, beginning on November 19, 2010. For ten years, successive National and Labour Party governments, along w...