The Victorian Trades Hall Council Executive at its meeting of Friday, 26 July passed a resolution on US bases and an independent foreign policy.

The VTHC is the peak body representing Victorian unions. The resolution states below:

Read more: Victorian Trades Hall Council Executive supports an independent foreign policy

This article is from the NAIDOC website

NAIDOC Week runs from the 7 - 14 July.

This year’s theme proudly celebrates the 50th anniversary of the presentation of the Yirrkala Bark Petitions to the Federal Parliament.

In August 1963, the Yolngu people of Yirrkala in northeast Arnhem Land sent two bark petitions – framed by traditional ochre paintings of clan designs – to the Australian House of Representatives.

Read more: NAIDOC Week 2013 - We value the vision: Yirrkala Bark Petitions 1963

The former Liberal prime minister (1975 - 1983), Fraser who spoke at the launch of the Melbourne Globalist on 2 June, warned the US could launch attacks from Darwin and that Australia’s foreign policy is “complacent”, he also criticized the government for being detrimentally dependent on the US.

In his speech at Melbourne University, Fraser stated he was “ashamed” that Australia was an accessory to the “falsehoods” and a willingly accomplice in the Iraq war and attacked the present deployment of American troops in Darwin.

Read more: Malcolm Fraser's outspoken attack on Australia's lack of independence

Protest against the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade hosting a TPP consultation meeting in Adelaide, Thursday 27 June.

by Spirit of Eureka (Vic)

The Australian government is about to sell out the last vestiges of Australia’s sovereignty and national independence by signing up to the US-driven Trans Pacific Partnership (“Free Trade”) agreement.

Read more: Don’t Sign the TPP - Don’t sign away Australia’s Sovereignty