With a clearly nervous David Hicks in front of a packed audience of 1000 people at the Sydney Writers' Festival on May 22, his interviewer Donna Mulhearn did a great job in breaking the ice. 鈥淚s it true that Channel 7,鈥 she said, as we were all waiting for the hard political question, 鈥渁sked you to go on 鈥楧ancing with the Stars鈥?鈥
Apparently it is true.
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The axing of 82 full-time jobs from the Fairfax Media group has prompted protests by angry Fairfax employees in Sydney and Melbourne.
Sub-editors, designers and artists will be outsourced from The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald to Pagemasters.
Furious journalists and other workers from the Fairfax media organisations vented their anger at stopwork meetings in Sydney and Melbourne on May 12 and then again at public rallies on May 19.
More than 100 people attended a meeting to commemorate Mulivaikal Remembrance Day on May 22 鈥 the second anniversary of the day the Sri Lankan military crushed the Tamil Eelam struggle in northern Sri Lanka in 2009.
The gathering, which included guest speakers, multi-religious prayers and children's cultural performances, was organised by the Australian Tamil Congress.
Chairperson Maree Klemm noted two particular aspects of the Sri Lankan civil war 鈥 the attack by government forces on the civilian Tamil populaton, and the lack of international intervention to stop the violence.
Climate scientist Will Steffen at the May 23 launch of 鈥 the first report from the federal government-appointed Climate Commission 鈥 that 鈥渨e don鈥檛 have the luxury anymore of climate denialism鈥 and 鈥渘eed to get beyond this fruitless, phoney debate in the media鈥.
And straight away, the Coalition began a fruitless, phoney debate about the report in the media.
Bob Gould was a veteran of the labour left in Australia. He died on May 22, at the age of 74, of injuries suffered after a fall in his well-known bookshop, Gould's Book Arcade, in Newtown, Sydney.
He had been unwell for some time, but his accidental death was untimely.
Gould was a member of the early Australian Trotskyist group active in the 1950s and 1960s, along with Nick Origlass and others, who fought for socialist politics within the Australian Labor Party and against the Stalinism of the Communist Party of Australia.
The crowd at Harry Black鈥檚 funeral, on May 23, filled the South Chapel in Rookwood Garden Cemetery, the overflow room and the upstairs gallery. Family, comrades, wharfies, seafarers and even a few old fellow soldiers from World War II were there to say goodbye.
It was a fitting reflection on the life of a treasured comrade.
Harry was born in Rylstone, NSW, the son of a butcher in a small rural town, said Jim Donovan, the president of the Retired Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) Members, in his eulogy at the funeral.
Once again to the streets for equal marriage rights - a loud, proud and largely young crowd of marchers took off from Town Hall Square to Taylor Square, down Oxford Out-of-the-bars-into-the-Street.
Many people have heard of the mess the government & Lend Lease are up to at Barangaroo, but little has yet to be made public on a similar development for the Gosford Waterfront Landing.
The General Manager of the Central Coast Regional Development Corporation Brett Phillips says the 鈥淐CRDC is indicating high end uses for the site along the lines of commercial office space, high end tourism and business related facilities and performing arts鈥.
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