City Limits - Centre for Public Integrity + Unionising in Private Education

Wednesday, 29 April 2020 - 9:00am to 10:00am

This week, Kevin and Meg speak with

Han Aulby, Executive Director of The Centre for Public Integrity about their work in transparency and accountability of our governmental bodies, their petition for Australian parliament to resume sitting in the wake of COVID-19, and the need for an independent commission against corruption. 

Check out their publications page with coronavirus and other related and up-to-date research HERE


 

Later, we speak with Emma, a delegate for the Independent Education Union (Vic-Tas) about organising teachers in the ELICOS (English Language Intensive Courses for Overseas Students) industry in the wake of the novel coronavirusand more broadly, Workers Organising Resistance during the pandemic.

We also discuss in more depth the layoffs and deterioriating of working conditions in the private education sector as a response to international students leaving the country and being left with no governmental support.

Sign the petition for the Minister for Social Services to provide financial assistance to international students HERE.

Wednesday 9:00am to 10:00am
Urban environment issues, analysing government services, both federal and state and local campaigns.

Presenter

Kevin Healy, Zeb Peake & Karina Aedo-Aguilera

Topic

Episodes

Australian Unemployed Workers Union || A Socialist response to the Housing Crisis

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AUWU interview and Vic Socialists housing talk.

Derrimut Factory Fire

31 Jul 2024
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