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WorkChoices or Justice at Work?
Communities, unions and churches creating a fairer future
7 June – Melbourne Town Hall
6.30pm for 7.00pm-9.00pm (close 10pm)
A range of informative speakers discuss:
* The new workplace and welfare laws
* The moral dimension – impacts on the most vulnerable
* Building solidarity in the community.
MC – Fr. Bob Maguire
Music – Trade Union Choir
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“Workers at Spotlight will be given a pay increase of just two cents an hour in exchange for losing entitlements like penalty rates, rest breaks and overtime.
The Australian-owned chain of fabric and homewares stores employs 6000 workers and rakes in over $600 million a year. But new staff will lose up to $90 a week [...]

Angry Young Thing has posted a question that could use a page of its own.

angry young thing Says:
May 28th, 2006 at 10:57 pm Judas; Yes, but how can we make morepraxis more of a ?community??

I think that this is a good question for the morepraxis community to answer together.
Personally, it feels most like an active [...]

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International award winning feature on Iraq “In the Shadow of the Palms” now in limited season at Cinema Nova, 380 Lygon St Carlton, group booking available on 9347 5331 / 9349 5201.
“In the Shadow of the Palms” is the only documentary filmed in Iraq prior to, during and after ‘liberation’ documents the changes in Iraqi [...]

Opening Night of Deadly Legacy – A photographic exhibition on the effect of landmines and cluster bombs
Monday 22nd May, Gallery Open 6pm-8pm, Official Program 7pm
Come and be inspired by Nu Nguyen, who lost both her legs to a landmine when she was just three years old, and by John Rodsted, the exhibition photographer, who has [...]

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Friday 26 May – Saturday 3 June
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the establishment of National Reconciliation Week. This year’s theme, Reconciliation: take the next step, reflects that there is still much to be done to build relationships which achieve better outcomes for us all – Indigenous and non-Indigenous people of Australia.
Reconciliation [...]