Controversy is swirling around , which details Tony Abbott's time as a right-wing student activist on Sydney University. It describes Abbott as having been a violent, misogynist, homophobic thug who once punched a wall to intimidate a female opponent.
Abbott's response has been to categorically deny he ever hit a wall. Sure, he may promote vicious anti-gay and anti-women policies, but Abbott wants to make it clear he has never engaged in wall bashing.
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Angered by the non-stop, one-sided propaganda on CNN and BBC World, usually a prelude to NATO bombing campaigns (including the six-month onslaught on Libya, the casualties of which are still hidden from the public) or direct occupations, I was asked to explain my views on RTV.
I did so, denouncing the promotion of the Syrian National Council by Western media networks and pointing out that some of the armed-struggle opposition were perfectly capable of carrying out their own massacres and blaming them on the regime.
Exit polls have shown the Dutch Socialist Party will get 15 seats after the September 12 elections, the same number it had before.
When two weeks ago, with polls showing the SP stood to win about 35 seats, even The Economist felt the need to raise the alarm over SP-leader Emile Roemer's 鈥渇ar-left party鈥. With this fresh in the memory, that's a deep disappointment for Dutch leftists. But it shouldn't come as much of a surprise.
Pressure is mounting for police officers involved in the Hillsborough disaster to face prosecution.
In 1989, 96 football fans were killed in a human crush in a game between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield.
The calls for prosecution follow the publication of a damning report by the Hillsborough Independent Panel that exposed the extent of the cover-up by South Yorkshire Police, which attempted to shift the blame onto the 96 innocent victims.
The statement below was released by the Dutch Socialist Party on September 12.
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A combative Emile Roemer addressed hundreds of Socialist Party members in the Paard van Troje (Trojan Horse) venue in The Hague. The SP held on to its 15 seats, despite a fiercely fought two-horse race between the PvdA (Labour Party) and the VVD (centre-right liberals).
鈥淵es,鈥 said Roemer, 鈥淚 am extremely proud of this party and of the million people who voted for us.
Billionaire mining giants slash jobs
Despite making profits of $20 billion combined in the past year, mining giants BHP Billiton and Xstrata announced on September 10
BHP Billiton, which announced an , will scrap 300 jobs when it closes its 33-year-old Gregory mine in Queensland next month.
After melting past the previous record minimum in late August, Arctic sea ice cap has continued its rapid decline.
By September 5, the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre (NSIDC) said the ice cap had fallen below 4 million square kilometres 鈥 鈥渁 45% reduction in the area of the Arctic covered by sea ice鈥 since the 1980s and 鈥90s.
This year鈥檚 melt 鈥渄idn鈥檛 just touch the record, it really drove right through it鈥, the NSIDC鈥檚 Ted Scambos told US National Public Radio on September 12.
鈥淥ne of the things you learn as an anthropologist, you don鈥檛 come in and change the culture,鈥 Dartmouth College president Jim Yong Kim told wealthy alumni when contemplating the institution鈥檚 notorious hazing practices, prior to US President Barack Obama鈥檚 request in February that he move to the World Bank.
Kim鈥檚 Harvard doctorate and medical degree, his founding of the heroic NGO Partners in Health and his directorship of the World Health Organization鈥檚 AIDS division make him the best-educated, most humane World Bank president yet.
For the Financial Post, the recent actions of the Bolivian government in nationalising a Canadian mine confirmed the country鈥檚 status as an 鈥渙utlaw nation鈥, according to an August 3 article.
But for less biased observers, the reality was a little different. Responding to pressure from local indigenous communities the Bolivian government confirmed on August 2 that it would expropriate the operations of a Canadian-owned mining project.
Indoor and outdoor sex work is currently decriminalised in New South Wales. This may soon change with the . The licensing scheme will take brothel regulation out of the hands of local councils and will give police powers to regulate brothels.
The results September 8 NSW local government elections have not been finalised yet, but results showed a 7% swing to the Liberals across the state. Many more Liberal councillors will take office than were elected in 2008.
The ALP suffered a statewide 6% swing against it and the Greens vote dropped 1%.
The Liberals picked up the most positions in former ALP strongholds in Sydney's west.
Compulsory income management must be opposed: this was the consensus from a lively August 29 community meeting hosted by the Socialist Alliance in Playford, northern Adelaide, where income management is being 鈥渢rialled鈥 for some welfare recipients.
This meeting included activists, locals, and representatives from community and welfare groups. People placed on income management have 50% to 70% of their payments put on a 鈥淏asics Card鈥, which can be used can be used to buy government-approved 鈥渆ssential鈥 items.
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