US cables show reliance on trade unions to suppress working-class unrest in Australia
Declassified US diplomatic cables from the 1970s have revealed the intense, daily preoccupation by the American State Department and its many informants throughout the Labor Party and trade union leadership with how to contain and quash the eruption of potentially revolutionary working-class rebellions in Australia and internationally. The extremely limited media coverage of a recently-published study of the documents has focused on the revelation that Bob Hawke, who later became a Labor Party prime minister, was a highly-valued and constant “informer” to the US government while the head of the Australian trade union movement and president of the Labor Party during the 1970s.
Friday s papers: Government budget deal, call for travel certificates, chilly May Day
Most morning papers give readers a detailed look at the government s new state budget plan announced late Thursday.
Government budget talks planned to last two days stretched out to over a week.
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Helsingin Sanomat is among the papers which carries a review of a Thursday evening government news conference where key cabinet ministers laid out the main points of the coalition s hard-fought budget framework.
The paper reports that the main decisions taken concerned the outlines of expenditure, employment measures and subsidies for peat production, as the industry is phased out.
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