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AUSTRALIA: The government admitted yesterday that it would miss a 10-year target to halve the gap between aboriginal and non-aboriginal employment rates.
Trade union confederation Actu condemned the government for trying to “cook the books” by blaming its own Community Development Programme.
The programme forces mostly aboriginal people to perform 25 hours of usually manual labour a week for no pay, no benefits and with no workers’ rights.
MOHAMMAD OMIDVAR, a senior figure in the Tudeh Party of Iran, tells the Morning Star that mass protests are rooted in poverty, corruption and neoliberal rule and warns against monarchist revival and US-engineered regime change
The Islamic Republic is attempting to deflect from its own failures with a scapegoating campaign against vulnerable and impoverished migrants, writes JAMSHID AHMADI