A protest picket outside the Sydney office of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd demanded an end to the racist NT intervention on October 29. The intervention was initiated by the previous Coalition government and continues under the ALP. It imposes welfare apartheid on NT Aboriginal communities and threatens Indigenous land rights.
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It seems like only yesterday we were being exhorted to spend. Pensioners, parents, homebuyers and workers were plied with 鈥渇ree鈥 money from the Labor government and asked to go and spend it to save the economy.
On October 23, tyre manufacturer Bridgestone Australia announced to a shocked workforce that the Adelaide factory would be closing in April 2010. Six hundred workers will lose their jobs.
A gay Bangladeshi couple have been battling to gain citizenship in Australia for 10 years. The Refugee Review Tribunal knocked back their claims three times, and three times a higher court has overturned the rulings.
On November 2, 1923, 636 members of the Victorian police force went on strike. All were sacked and replaced by volunteer strikebreakers.
The re-election of Uruguay鈥檚 Frente Amplio (FA 鈥 Broad Front) government, and the defeat of the right-wing National Party candidate and former neoliberal president Luis Alberto Lacalle, came one step closer on October 25.
Summer of Blood: The Peasants鈥 Revolt of 1381
By Dan Jones
Harper Press, 2009
238 pages, $49.99 (hb)
SYDNEY 鈥 Leichhardt Council, and Greens mayor Jamie Parker, will host a public meeting on November 7 to show support for Sydney Ferries against a state government proposal to privatise the service.
In France, you pay nothing to go to college. In Britain, the National Health Service is free. And in Sweden, any woman who gives birth receives two years of paid maternity leave.
Ethical elitism
My article "Ethical elitism on climate change?" (GLW #814) and Simon Butler's response, "Ethical elitism?", (GLW #815) are both unnecessarily caustic. This culture that sees it as acceptable to humiliate political opponents (or
At first, the flow of people fleeing horrors like the Sri Lankan government鈥檚 concentration camps for Tamils and Afghanistan鈥檚 killing fields didn鈥檛 test the capacity of the Christmas Island detention centre
SYDNEY 鈥 "No shooters in national parks", and "Hunters: Our parks and animals are not fair game", were two of the placards carried by 300 people outside the NSW state parliament on October 27.
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