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
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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.
Justice and Freedom for Ceylon Tamils is a human rights action group based in Melbourne. It was formed in 2007. A spokesperson for the group, Nagamuthu Wickiramasingham, told 91自拍论坛 Weekly that Tamil refugees had good reason to flee the brutal Sri Lankan regime by boat.
The following abridged statement was released on October 29 by Aboriginal people from Northern Territory communities targeted by the federal government鈥檚 NT Emergency Response laws.
The Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO) 鈥 the new name for the Howard government-established Workplace Ombudsman 鈥 has launched its first prosecution against a union for 鈥渦nlawful鈥 industrial action.
On October 26, 150 people rallied at Federation Square to demand the Australian government accept the 78 Sri Lankans asylum seekers currently moored off Indonesia鈥檚 Riau Islands.
The Scourge of Termite-ists
By Allan Scarfe
Seaview Press, 2009
260 pages, $22.95
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SYDNEY 鈥 Teachers at the Sydney Institute of TAFE held a wildcat strike on October 29 after the Industrial Relations Commission (IRC) ruled teachers must sacrifice work conditions in return for a 12.5% wage rise over three years.
While two boat loads of Tamil refugees fleeing Sri Lanka push their case to be admitted into Australia, two reports on Sri Lankan atrocities against Tamils have been released without a word from the Australian media or government.
The fatal explosion on board a boat carrying 47 Afghan refugees in April created a storm of controversy in Australian politics and the media.
The revered Argentinean matriarch of protest music, Mercedes Sosa, died in Buenos Aires on October 4. She was 74.
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