MELBOURNE鈥 On July 29, 40 supporters of Aboriginal rights gathered in front of the ALP Victorian headquarters in West Melbourne. They protested against the federal ALP government鈥檚 planned takeover of the Alice Springs town camps.
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If the rhetoric of the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission鈥檚 report on Australia鈥檚 health system is taken at face value, health care in Australia will get an impressive overhaul courtesy of the federal government.
Siddique Abdullah Hasan is on death row in Ohio. He is one of the Lucasville Five, prisoners railroaded onto death row after a 1993 prison rebellion against abuses by prison authorities. Below, he writes about the July 21 execution in Ohio of Marvallous Keene 鈥 the 1000th prisoner to be executed by lethal injection in the US since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976.
Slaughterhouse FiveBy Kurt VonnegutFirst published in 1969224 pages, $24.95
Australian Coal Association (ACA) executive director Ralph Hillman believes the industry doesn鈥檛 want special treatment from the Rudd Labor government. It just wants the same 鈥渇air treatment鈥 given to other big polluters under the proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS).
The Tasmanian Liberal Party, now in opposition, is running with a new youth-bashing policy in the lead-up to the next state election. The election will take place early next year.
The frosty relations between Colombia and Ecuador got even frostier on July 6 when Colombian officials and lawyers accused members of Ecuador鈥檚 government of working for left-wing Colombian guerrillas.
Thousands of tons of earth contaminated with radioactive waste have been identified at the site of the London Olympics at Marshgate Lane in Stratford, George Galloway, a left-wing MP for the anti-war Respect party, said on July 27.
The article below is by Jan Sithole, general secretary of the Swaziland Federation of Trade Unions. It first appeared at Pambazuko News.
On July 17, 20 members of jailed democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi鈥檚 National League for Democracy were arrested after peacefully marching in a crowd of 300 to mark Martyrs鈥 Day.
The article below is abridged from a July 27 statement by the National Black Fraternal Organisation of Honduras on the one month anniversary of the military coup that overthrew elected President Manuel Zelaya. It is reprinted from .
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