The Reserve Bank (RBA) of Australia announced on October 7 that they would cut the official interest rate by 1% 鈥 the largest single cut since 1992 鈥 in response to the US financial crisis.
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On October 7 a group of students from Chisholm, Bendigo, Kangan Batman and Victoria University TAFE campuses demonstrated their opposition to proposed TAFE reforms at Parliament House. Their cries were for education for everyone, not just the rich.
Miranda Devine is usually the first to turn a ridiculous right-wing rant into a newspaper column.
In the two years that have passed since the Socialist Alliance鈥檚 fifth national conference, the Australian political terrain has shifted a lot.
Carrying the views of thousands of people who oppose the construction of a dam on Queensland聮s Mary River, Steve Posselt will kayak from Brisbane to the Sydney office of federal environment minister Peter Garrett to deliver their petitions.
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Der Krieg [War]
An exhibition of Otto Dix鈥檚 anti-war prints
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Until October 26
An exhibition of Otto Dix鈥檚 anti-war prints
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Until October 26
聯It is important that this book is being released at this time. It allows us to better understand the reality of the Venezuelan revolution聰, Nelson Davila, Venezuelan Charge d聮affaires, told a meeting in Wollongong on October 4. Davila was launching Voices from Venezuela: Behind the Bolivarian Revolution, a new book by 91自拍论坛 Weekly correspondents Jim McIlroy and Coral Wynter.
Looking back on the political movements of the 聮60s and 聮70s is now a fairly well trodden path in the form of fiction, history and memoirs alike.
Rogue Economics: Capitalism聮s New Reality
By Loretta Napoleoni
Allen & Unwin, 2008
292 pages, $29.95 (pb)
By Loretta Napoleoni
Allen & Unwin, 2008
292 pages, $29.95 (pb)
The Canterbury Bankstown Peace Group (CBPG) is organising a speak-out at Paul Keating Park, Bankstown, on October 18 to demand respect for human rights.
Mamdouh Habib, a member of CBPG, is still fighting for the Rudd government to investigate the
Britain鈥檚 most senior military commander in Afghanistan, Brigadier Mark Carleton-Smith, told the British media about the US/NATO occupation of Afghanistan that 鈥淲e are not going to win this war鈥.
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