Emboldened by the current right-wing security environment, spy agencies are attempting to recruit at Australian universities.
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On the National Day of Shame 聴 March 26 聴 more than 100 supporters of voluntary euthanasia from across Australia came together at Parliament House, chanting 聯Not the church, not the state, let the people decide their fate聰. A Freedom Ride from Sydney to Canberra marked the 10th anniversary of the federal government聮s overturning of the Northern Territory聮s Rights of the Terminally Ill Act.
On April 4, students at the University of Sydney will protest against the $50-$100 million development of the United States Studies Centre (USSC), a 聯think tank聰 designed to 聯strengthen the relationship聰 between Australia and the US.
鈥淒emocracy remains a great danger to those who have privilege and control. When you are part of the top 1% of the population that has as much income as the bottom 75% of the people, democracy is a permanent threat to your interests.鈥
Tasmanian Labor Premier Paul Lennon聮s Pulp Mill Assessment Bill, which fast-tracks approval of timber giant Gunns Ltd聮s proposed $1.5 billion Tamar Valley pulp mill, was passed by the Legislative Council, the state parliament聮s upper house, on March 29. Seven days earlier the bill had been passed by the lower house.
The following is abridged from a statement received by the socialist youth organisation Resistance from the Frente Francisco de Miranda (FFM), an organisation of revolutionary youth at the forefront of Venezuela聮s socialist revolution.
On March 28 and 29, a series of rightist mobilisations took place in Jakarta, including a 500-strong mobilisation aimed at disrupting a march and rally organised by the National Liberation Party of Unity (Papernas). The Papernas rally was protesting foreign domination of the Indonesian minerals sector and demanding its nationalisation. The right-wing thugs were armed with scythes, knives and canes. This was the fourth time in the last six months that Papernas has been targeted.
After five years of solitary confinement in a small metal cell, David Hicks pleaded guilty on March 26 to one of the two charges brought against him by US military prosecutors on March 1, to finally get out of the notoriously brutal US military prison at Guantanamo Bay. Hicks鈥檚 case has revealed just what a sham the US-led 鈥渨ar on terror鈥 really is.
After five years imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay without trial, David Hicks has agreed to a plea-bargain deal at his military commission trial to hasten his return to Australia. 鈥淚 think most of you would be pleading guilty to something to get out of the place鈥, Hicks鈥檚 father Terry told the assembled media after returning to Adelaide from Guantanamo Bay on March 29.
In the lead-up to the April 27-29 ALP national conference in Sydney, a number of federal Labor frontbenchers and state premiers have declared themselves in favour of scrapping the party鈥檚 鈥渘o new mines鈥 policy in favour of an unrestricted expansion of uranium mining. This push 鈥 which ignores the views of a majority of Australians and the extreme dangers inherent in uranium mining and the nuclear cycle that it is part of 鈥 reflects booming prices for the mineral on the world market. However, a number of trade unions have opposed the policy change and vowed to fight it at the conference.
A March 28 forum of 150 people, organised by the Refugee Action Collective, was told that a new detention centre being built on Christmas Island will have the capacity to hold 800 people under 24-hour surveillance, and that detainees will have to wear electronic ID tags and be tracked at all times.
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