Asia Pacific Currents

News and labour updates from the Asia Pacific region. An interview with Viraj Dessanyake, a Sri Lankan Tamil in Australia, member of the Tamil Refugee Council and CFMEU delegate, discussign the current, unfolding situation in Sri Lanka. Asia Pacific Currents provides updates of labour struggles and campaigns from the Asia Pacific region. It is produced by Australia Asia Worker Links, in the studio...

News and labour updates from the Asia Pacific region. Asia Pacific Currents provides updates of labour struggles and campaigns from the Asia Pacific region. It is produced by Australia Asia Worker Links, in the studio of 3CR Radio in Melbourne, Australia.

News and labour updates from the Asia Pacific region. An interview with Wolsan Liem from the International Transport Federation, about the heroic victory of the South Korean truck workers' strike and what's next in that campaign. Asia Pacific Currents provides updates of labour struggles and campaigns from the Asia Pacific region. It is produced by Australia Asia Worker Links, in the studio of 3CR...

News and labour updates from the Asia Pacific region. An interview with Lionel Bopage, campaign organiser for Australia Asia Worker Links and organiser with Asia-Lanka People's Solidarity, on the continuing economic and political crisis in Sri Lanka following Rajapaksa's resignation in May. Asia Pacific Currents provides updates of labour struggles and campaigns from the Asia Pacific region. It is...

Our annual radiothon show with some very special little guests! Asia Pacific Currents provides updates of labour struggles and campaigns from the Asia Pacific region. It is produced by Australia Asia Worker Links, in the studio of 3CR Radio in Melbourne, Australia.

An interview with Elisabeth Araujo, country organiser for East Timor for APHEDA - Union Aid Abroad, about the recent East Timor elections. Asia Pacific Currents provides updates of labour struggles and campaigns from the Asia Pacific region. It is produced by Australia Asia Worker Links, in the studio of 3CR Radio in Melbourne, Australia.

News and labour updates from the Asia Pacific region. An interview with Reem Yunis, a Palestinian and a socialist, about Jerusalem Day and the rise of the Alt Right in Israel. Asia Pacific Currents provides updates of labour struggles and campaigns from the Asia Pacific region. It is produced by Australia Asia Worker Links, in the studio of 3CR Radio in Melbourne, Australia.

News and labour updates from the Asia Pacific region. An interview with May Kotsakis, Chairperson of the Philipines Australia Solidarity Association, about the Philippines election. Asia Pacific Currents provides updates of labour struggles and campaigns from the Asia Pacific region. It is produced by Australia Asia Worker Links, in the studio of 3CR Radio in Melbourne, Australia.

News and labour updates from the Asia Pacific region. An interview with Nic McClellan, resident Pacific expert, about the Security Cooperation Agreement between the Solomons and China. Asia Pacific Currents provides updates of labour struggles and campaigns from the Asia Pacific region. It is produced by Australia Asia Worker Links, in the studio of 3CR Radio in Melbourne, Australia.

News and labour updates from the Asia Pacific region. An interview with Farooq Tariq, General Secretary Pakistan Peasants Co-ordination Committee, about May Day in Pakistan in 2022.Asia Pacific Currents provides updates of labour struggles and campaigns from the Asia Pacific region. It is produced by Australia Asia Worker Links, in the studio of 3CR Radio in Melbourne, Australia.

News and labour updates from the Asia Pacific region. An interview with Lionel Bopage, campaign organiser for Australia Asia Worker Links, on thw growing economic and political crisis in Sri Lanka.\Asia Pacific Currents provides updates of labour struggles and campaigns from the Asia Pacific region. It is produced by Australia Asia Worker Links, in the studio of 3CR Radio in Melbourne, Australia.

News and labour updates from the Asia Pacific region. An interview with Casey Thompson from the CFMEU Manufacturing Division, about solidarity for Bangladeshi garment workers, and a memorial service on the 9th anniversary of the collapse of Rana Plaza. Asia Pacific Currents provides updates of labour struggles and campaigns from the Asia Pacific region. It is produced by Australia Asia Worker Link...

News and labour updates from the Asia Pacific region. An interview with Yemeni activist and academic Kamilia Al-Eriana, about the current situation in Yemen. Asia Pacific Currents provides updates of labour struggles and campaigns from the Asia Pacific region. It is produced by Australia Asia Worker Links, in the studio of 3CR Radio in Melbourne, Australia.

News and labour updates from the Asia Pacific region. An interview with Nic Maclellan, expert on Pacific Area politics, discussing the Security Co-operation agreement between the Solomons and China. Asia Pacific Currents provides updates of labour struggles and campaigns from the Asia Pacific region. It is produced by Australia Asia Worker Links, in the studio of 3CR Radio in Melbourne, Australia.

News and labour updates from the Asia Pacific region. An interview with Aran Mylvaganum about Australia's backflip on refugee policy, and whether this is something to celebrate. Aran is the founder of the Tamil Refugee Council, and Victoria Socialist candidate for the Senate. Asia Pacific Currents provides updates of labour struggles and campaigns from the Asia Pacific region. It is produced by Au...

News and labour updates from the Asia Pacific region. Asia Pacific Currents provides updates of labour struggles and campaigns from the Asia Pacific region. It is produced by Australia Asia Worker Links, in the studio of 3CR Radio in Melbourne, Australia

News and labour updates from the Asia Pacific region. An interview Sopheak Molika, a worker at Nagaworld, with interpreter Tephalin Ou, a unionist in Cambodia. They discuss the ongoing dispute at Nagaworld Casino in Cambodia. Asia Pacific Currents provides updates of labour struggles and campaigns from the Asia Pacific region. It is produced by Australia Asia Worker Links, in the studio of 3CR Rad...

News and labour updates from the Asia Pacific region. An interview with Kristine Lawrence from Gabriela Australia about IWD in the Philippines and how women there took, and are taking action for women’s liberation. Asia Pacific Currents provides updates of labour struggles and campaigns from the Asia Pacific region. It is produced by Australia Asia Worker Links, in the studio of 3CR Radio in Melbo...

News and labour updates from the Asia Pacific region. The Anganwadi are pre and post natal workers – the equivalent of Australia’s midwives, early maternal healthcare nurses and early natal healthcare workers. Since the 70s, these workers have been asked to work as volunteers, and in 2017, they fought and won a long hard battle for recognition as workers. Now, 5 years later, they are fighting for...

News and labour updates from the Asia Pacific region. Our speaker today is Sona Kazemi – a research fellow of Migration Studies, Disability Studies, and Medical Humanities at the Ohio State University. Sona researches the living conditions of people who become injured/disabled as a result of wars, incarceration, torture, gendered violence, punitive limb amputation, genocide, and political instabil...

News and labour updates from the Asia Pacific region. Asia Pacific Currents provides updates of labour struggles and campaigns from the Asia Pacific region. It is produced by Australia Asia Worker Links, in the studio of 3CR Radio in Melbourne, Australia

News and labour updates from the Asia Pacific region. The Sri Lankan government celebrated the 74th anniversary of the country’s independence from the British empire on 4 February. But for Tamil speaking people on the island, 4 February 1948 marks the day one oppressor handed power to another. It is Tamil Oppression Day. We speak with Renuga Inpakumar from the Tamil Refugee Council. Asia Pacific C...

News and labour updates from the Asia Pacific region. It has been one year since the military coup in Myanmar. So what are the prospects for democracy in a country whose economy is in freefall, where millions face poverty and food insecurity, and where violence is increasing at an alarming rate? On today’s program we speak to Debbie Stothard to discuss the coup in Myanmar, one year on. Debbie is o...

Latest news and labour updates from the Asia Pacific region for the week. Review of labour news and events for 2021 looking at some of the main issues that have affected the labour movement in the Asia Pacific this year. APC will now go into a summer break. We will be back with our first program of 2022 on Saturday February 5Asia Pacific Currents provides updates of labour struggles and campaigns...

News and labour updates from the Asia Pacific region. Excerpts of speeches from the trade union solidarity rally in Melbourne, Australia, outside the headquarters of Ansell. Ansell is a global manufacturing company which has made huge profits in the last couple of years as it is the world's major supplier of PPE products. Ansell is also a vicious union buster and user of bonded labour in its facto...