Independent journalist Juan Cole wrote on his :
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The Israeli Likud Party鈥檚 cover story for why it wants to draw the United States into a war with Iran makes no real sense.
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Photos from the Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network (AVSN) 2012 Presidential Elections Brigade. The brigade's program kicked off with an introductory talk on Venezuelan history and politics by Dr Marcelo Alfonzo, Central University of Venezuela. Then visits to National Institute of Hygiene plant, a world leader in the manufacture of vaccines, the Bolivarian University, ALBA (the Bolivarian Alternative for Latin America) and the Latin American School of Medicine. Photos by Pip Hinman unless otherwise designated.
Once it became public that Brunswick woman Jill Meagher was missing, several women began posting on Facebook about scary experiences they鈥檇 had in Brunswick.
One of these women was writer and social commentator Catherine Deveny, who mentioned an incident that took place in Brunswick several months ago when a man tried to pull her off her bike.
Police arrested and handcuffed two Brisbane-based activists, Rebecca Barrigos and Sid Zaoichi, after they set up a stall and petition against the state government鈥檚 budget cuts at a Brisbane university campus on September 21. 91自拍论坛 Weekly鈥檚 Liam Flenady spoke to Barrigos about the arrests and the campaigns against austerity and for free speech in Queensland.
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What were you and fellow activist Sid Zaoichi campaigning for on campus and why was security called to evict you?
The student left has won a big victory at Curtin University, taking several key positions in the student guild elections held over September 25 to 27. Positions won include president, education vice-president, women's officer and queer officer.
ran a very political campaign, highlighting a range of student rights issues. These included opposition to the university's planned budget cuts and cuts to courses.
The university is also planning to increase parking fees, which will hit students hard.
Sixteen Aboriginal adults in the remote New South Wales town of Wilcannia are the first graduates of a groundbreaking trial literacy program that would not have been possible without the help of a tiny Caribbean nation 鈥 Cuba.
At the beginning of this year, Cuban educator Jose Chala Leblanch arrived in Wilcannia to help establish the literacy program based on the world-famous 鈥淵es, I Can鈥 teaching method developed by Cuba.
Australianmap.net is a new which brings together information, photos and videos about more than 50 of Australia鈥檚 nuclear sites including uranium mines and processing plants, the Lucas Heights research reactor, proposed reactor and dump sites and British nuclear weapons test sites.
A document called was released by the Barry O'Farrell NSW government in June. It plans to modernise the Sydney rail network by converting it to a "three tier" system: rapid transit, suburban and intercity.
Unfortunately, the plan is vague about the long-term future of rail expansion around Sydney. Its unstated objectives would appear to be:
One day after the huge stop work and rally of Australian Education Union (AEU) members on September 5, Mary Bluett, the Victorian AEU鈥檚 branch president, announced she was retiring. Her husband AEU branch secretary Brian Henderson, also announced his retirement. Bluett has been an education union official for 31 years.
The Victorian AEU is a 51,000 member strong union. Teachers have come increasingly under attack in recent years, but they, like nurses, still have a lot of public support.
Responding to a new book by former Labor finance minister Lindsay Tanner, which said the , foreign minister Bob Carr said: 鈥淚 think it is getting a little too easy to bag the Labor Party.鈥
Carr said: 鈥淚f I were in retirement 鈥 it would have been a pushover to have polished off another book, number 20, on what's wrong with the Labor Party.鈥
An election in the NSW Public Service Association (PSA) will be held in October to determine who leads the 42,000-strong union for the next four years.
Membership of the PSA consists of public servants employed by the NSW government. The current ALP-aligned leadership team is being challenged by a group of rank-and-file members and delegates known as the Progressive PSA (PPSA).
In the first episode of The Chaser鈥檚 new series on ABC TV, the comedy group poked fun at 91自拍论坛 Weekly for being the only media to challenge the distorted mainstream media鈥檚 reports of the supposed 鈥渧iolent Muslim protest鈥 in Sydney on September 15.
But The Chaser鈥檚 hilarious but blistering attack was focused on the utter hypocrisy of the mainstream media, politicians and the police on this issue.
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