Petersham TAFE in inner-western Sydney, like most TAFE campuses in NSW, is experiencing the beginnings of a mass exodus of teachers into retirement, precipitating a drastic skills shortage that will start to bite in the next few years.
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This May-June, 12,000 Australian soldiers and nearly l4,000 US troops and sailors will bombard our shores and fragile landscape, storm our beaches gunning down 聯terrorists聰 in the newly-built urban guerrilla warfare training centre, and test their latest laser-guided missiles and 聯smart聰 bombs in some of the most pristine wilderness on this planet.
Petrodollar Warfare
By William Clark
New Society Publishers, 2005
$29.95 267pages
By William Clark
New Society Publishers, 2005
$29.95 267pages
David Hicks聮s demonisation, and continued incarceration in Guantanamo Bay, helps the US and Australian governments聮 promotion of its endless 聯war on terror聰. The Australian government is keen for the US to prosecute Hicks rather than have him return home because he has done no wrong under Australian law.
When former Guantanamo Bay detainee Mamdouh Habib announced last week that he would contest the March 24 NSW state election, the corporate media in Sydney cranked up a campaign of vilification against him. Habib was held in the US prison at Guantanamo Bay for more than three years before being released in January 2005 without charge.
In her 2001 book, Blue Army: Paramilitary Policing in Victoria, senior lecturer in criminology at Monash University Associate Professor Jude McCulloch reports 44 victims of police shootings in Victoria since the 1980s, mostly poor people from non-Anglo backgrounds, but also police themselves. That number is now more than 50.
鈥淏rilliant, fantastic, inspiring 鈥 Never shaken so many hands in one day鈥, commented Pat Rogers, a Brisbane staff member of the Electrical Trades Union, after experiencing the May Day march of more than 1 million workers in Caracas during the Australian trade union solidarity brigade to Venezuela in April-May last year. People in Australia will have the opportunity to join a May Day brigade to Venezuela again this year, from April 30 to May 9, organised by the Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network (AVSN).
Walter Chavez, an adviser to Bolivian president Evo Morales, has found himself in the centre of a well-orchestrated corporate media campaign aimed at delegitimising the Morales government internationally by linking it to 聯terrorist聰 groups. This accusation comes only a week after attempts by the Spanish media to link Morales聮s party 聴 the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) 聴 with the Basque separatist group ETA.
The announcement on January 30 that Australia鈥檚 first nuclear reactor was to be decommissioned sounded good. But residents and activists hoping for an end to the nuclear industry will be disappointed to hear that this is not the end of Australia鈥檚 nuclear experimentation. The old HIFAR reactor, Australia鈥檚 only multi-purpose research reactor, has been superseded by another reactor in the same suburb of Lucas Heights.
Nobody can quite believe their eyes and ears. More than 15 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, has made it abundantly clear that his country is embarked on a socialist revolution.
On January 31, Bangladesh聮s acting electoral commission chief Mahfuzur Rahman and his four deputies resigned, paving the way for the country聮s caretaker government to appoint new commission members as demanded by the main alliance of opposition parties.
One of the best-known and most successful aspects of Venezuela聮s Bolivarian revolution has been the 聯social missions聰 聴 social programs funded by Venezuela聮s oil wealth aiming to solve the most pressing problems of the nation聮s poor majority. One of the best known and most successful social missions was one of the first to be established, the health program Mision Bario Adentro (聯Into the Neighbourghood聰). Established in April 2003, the mission has brought free quality health care via the establishment of popular health clinics in poor neighbourhoods across Venezuela. Before Barrio Adentro, health care was out of reach for many of the poor, as private health care was too expensive and the public health system was in a state of disrepair.
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