聯At least 104 US soldiers died in Iraq in April, capping the deadliest six-month period for US forces since the war began more than four years ago聰, the May 1 Sydney Morning Herald reported, adding that April was 聯the deadliest month so far this year and the sixth deadliest of the war. It also brought to five the number of consecutive months when the American death toll has surpassed 80, the longest such stretch of the war.聰
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Environmentalists and anti-nuclear campaigners are disappointed but not surprised by the ALP national conference decision on April 28 to drop its 聯no new uranium mines聰 policy. This allows state Labor governments to approve new mines, a policy backed by the South Australian and Queensland premiers.
聯The Australian people now know less than they would have historically about what is happening in their society聰, Chris Warren, secretary of the journalists聮 union, told the April 26 Australian, following the release by the union of a report detailing how press freedom is becoming increasingly strained as a result of Washington and Canberra聮s 聯war on terror聰.
A month in Darwin聮s Berrimah jail, from March 12 to April 8, sheeted home several truths about democratic rights to former journalist Rob Inder-Smith.
聯We know more about energy policy than the government does 聟 We know where every skeleton in the closet is 聴 most of them we buried聰, boasted a member of the self-described 聯greenhouse mafia聰, a group of lobbyists comprising the executive directors of the coal, oil, cement, aluminium, mining and electricity industries, said Clive Hamilton, executive director of the Australia Institute.
This open letter to the April 27-29 Australian Labor Party national conference protesting against the restrictions on workers聮 rights contained in the new ALP industrial relations policy was supported by Socialist Alliance and other militant trade unionists. The letter was distributed to all 400 conference delegates and the media, and was the basis of some sharp media questioning of the ALP leadership. Unfortunately, no amendments to the policy were moved by conference delegates.
The following appeal by Ali B. Humayun, who has been detained in Villawood Immigration Detention Centre in Sydney for more than a year, was sent to Community Action Against Homophobia. It has been abridged for publication.
鈥淲hat we are now seeing is a clear choice for voters at the next election鈥, Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) president Sharan Burrow said on April 17, referring to the industrial relations policy that Labor leader Kevin Rudd received support for at the party鈥檚 national conference at the end of April. A slight choice may be a more accurate description.
This year鈥檚 proposed US spending on the Iraq war is larger than the military budgets of China and Russia combined. The combined spending requests would push the total for Iraq to US$564 billion, according to the non-partisan Congressional Research Service (CRS).
Carbon rationing
David Spratt (Write On, GLW #707) assumes there will be no "overnight revolutionary end to the market" and argues, "Carbon rationing works by an authority independent of government setting an annual carbon emissions budget for the
Christmas Island, 2800 kilometres north-west of Perth, 2500 kilometres from Darwin and 500 kilometres from Singapore, is one of Australia鈥檚 most remote Indian Ocean territories. It is where many asylum seekers first make their refugee claims. But since the 2001 arrival of the Tampa and the island鈥檚 excision from Australia鈥檚 migration zone, the island has been pivotal to the Howard government鈥檚 heartless response to asylum seekers.
On April 24, the Locals for Esperance Development (LED) residents' group told the WA south coast town鈥檚 local council they wanted a complete ban on the shipment through Esperance of lead for nickel to be transported in closed containers, and community consultation about further transportation of heavy metals through the port.
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