On September 15, Socialist Alliance member Margaret Gleeson was awarded the prize of delegate of the year by the Queensland state conference of the Australian Services Union (ASU).
She will now be put forward as the Queensland nominee for ASU National Delegate of the Year, to be decided at the union's national conference in November. See nomination below.
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Police violence has come under the spotlight once again, as it tends to do every six months or so. Sometimes it is when two or more incidents occur together, or it is when the media have decided that the last story about misbehaving police has been forgotten, and now is the time for a new one.
On September 23, the Daily Telegraph reported on a wall mural in the Sydney inner-west suburb of Newtown by artist Sergio Redegalli with the slogan 鈥淪ay no to burqas鈥.
Three hundred people attended a launch of author and activist Tariq Ali's new book, From Bush to Obama 鈥 Change We Can Believe In? on October 6.
Ali said Obama鈥檚 election campaign had raised people's hopes and mobilised US youth, but people were now disillusioned and angry. He said Obama was a 鈥渕aster of bullshit鈥. Obama鈥檚 rhetoric sounded different, but fundamentally continued the policies of the Bush regime.
Richard Stallman is something of a legend in the global software community. In 1983, he created the free software movement, through which highly trained and often highly paid professionals give their time to producing software for the public good.
The movement produced the GNU operating system, a free alternative to proprietary software such as the Microsoft or Apple operating systems. GNU is a both a humorous 鈥渞ecursive acronym鈥 standing for 鈥淕NU is Not Unix鈥, and a gnu (or wildebeest) is the mascot of the GNU system and GNU Project.
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