Shortly before Christmas, the owners of the big three free-to-air commercial television networks, Seven, Nine and Ten, accompanied by Free TV Australia lobbyist and former Queensland ALP premier Wayne Goss met with Kevin Rudd at Kirribilli House. They cried poor and demanded corporate welfare for their 鈥渟truggling鈥 businesses.
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The Communist Party of Australia is waging a very active campaign for the seat of Lee in the March 20 state elections. Candidate and CPA state secretary Bob Briton has featured several times in local media and support for the campaign has exceeded local branches鈥 expectations.
The proposal by the Greens to the Rudd government that it introduce a price on carbon (starting at $23 a tonne) 鈥渁s an interim measure in the transition to a functional and effective emissions trading scheme鈥 is provoking a lively debate in the grassroots climate action movement.
For the second year in a row, flag-raising ceremonies in Victoria marked the anniversary of the Saharawi Republic, as a gesture of solidarity and friendship with the people of Western Sahara. The Saharawi Republic was declared on February 27, 1976. However, the country remains under Moroccan occupation.
The statement published below is a call for protests when US President Barack Obama visits Guam, Indonesia and Australia in late March. It was released by the Working Peoples Association (Indonesia), Socialist Alliance (Australia), Socialist Workers (New Zealand), Power of the Masses Party (PML 鈥 Philippines), Solidarity (Australia), Labor Party Pakistan, and Socialist Alternative (Australia).
The River, Lakes and Coorong Action Group (RLCAG) has sent out a probing questionnaire that asks candidates in the March 20 South Australian elections to answer 76 questions relating to the River Murray and the lakes at its mouth.
The article below is reprinted from of the Malaysian Socialist Party (PSM).
鈥淭he prime minister鈥檚 proposed shake up of public hospital funding has the capacity to reduce waiting lists to see specialists, to have surgery, and to get seen in emergency departments when needed鈥, Dr Tim Woodruff, president of the Doctors Reform Society, said in response to PM Kevin Rudd鈥檚 March 3 statement on healthcare reform.
In the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre, Republican President George W. Bush launched illegal wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Bush enacted 鈥渁nti-terrorism鈥 policies under which people could be labelled 鈥渢error suspects鈥 without evidence and abducted, jailed and tortured in secret.
On March 2, more than 40 people packed into La Tropicana cafe for a public forum on the theme 鈥淭he Aboriginal struggle continues鈥. The meeting was organised by the Socialist Alliance.
Western Australian public servants are mounting an important battle to stop the government terminating their job security as part of an overall government assault on community services. Unionists say thousands of jobs are in danger and public services are threatened.
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