AUSTRALIA protest

AUSTRALIA'S most powerful union leader has led an unprecedented public assault on the Rann Labor Government at Parliament House.

Calling on the Rann Government to come to the negotiating table, ACTU president Ged Kearney told the large crowd - which the Public Service Association says totalled 10,000 - the nation was watching their struggle. "You are under attack, make no mistake," she said. "What is at stake here is a basic principle ...that applies to every single worker in this country.'' Ms Kearney, who travelled to Adelaide for the rally, said Labor had broken its agreement with public sector workers.

 

AUSTRALIA In dramatic scenes, the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard had to be dragged by riot police to safety after hundreds of protesters from the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra descended on an event where Julia Gillard, was presiding over Australia Day celebrations. Regardless of how you feel about Ms Gillard of her government this was a disgusting display and has done nothing to advance the cause of the Aboriginal activists. In fact, in anything it has probably set things back 80 years.