With the death of another 鈥渃ontroversial鈥 world leader, what the media should have done was go back to their editorials that threw around terms like 鈥渁uthoritarian鈥 and 鈥渢yrant鈥, and were filled with tales of a legacy of economic destruction and class hatred and support for dictators, and just used a simple find/replace to remove 鈥淗ugo Chavez鈥 and insert 鈥淢argaret Thatcher鈥.
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After a successful crowd-funding campaign that raised the funds for a manufacturing licence, Earthworker Cooperative Australia and Eureka鈥檚 Future Workers Cooperative will install their first solar hot water unit in Melbourne on April 15.
A fully equipped worker-owned factory is still a way off, but project coordinator and Socialist Alliance member Dave Kerin says it is now one step closer.
Compulsory income management of disadvantaged welfare recipients was slammed by speakers at a forum at the Bankstown Arts Centre on April 11.
The forum, organised by the Say No to Government Income Management: Not in Bankstown, Not Anywhere campaign coalition, attracted about 40 people to hear representatives from unions and Aboriginal, migrant and youth groups call for a campaign to stop the extension of income management from July 1 this year.
The SEARCH foundation held a conference called 鈥淪ecure Jobs in a Green Future: Australian Left Renewal Conference鈥, on April 6-7. It featured international guest Costas Isychos, a member of the Greek left party SYRIZA and head of the party鈥檚 external and defence policy.
When Opposition leader Tony Abbott spoke at the 70th anniversary dinner of the Institute of Public Affairs on April 5, he knew he was among friends. The IPA is a right-wing think-tank that promotes conservative politics in Australia.
At first, a bridging visa seems like a new life. A brief glimpse of freedom is felt by many asylum seekers who, after years in detention, see an opportunity to live freely in Australia.
The temporary, selective visa gets asylum seekers six weeks鈥 accommodation and financial support of $219 a week 鈥 a figure that is 89% of the Newstart allowance.
But after six weeks 鈥 a nanosecond in Australia's cumbersome and bureaucratic refugee processing system 鈥 asylum seekers are expected to go out on their own, find somewhere to live, and somehow survive on a few hundred dollars a week.
University of Queensland (UQ) Executive Dean of Arts Fred D鈥橝gostino said last month the gender studies major would be cut from the Bachelor of Arts program.
No student commencing next year would have the option of majoring in this area.
Gender studies has a 41-year history at the university. The program was won in the early 1970s by the powerful feminist movement of the time.
It was the first of its kind in Australia and one of the first in the world.
The Coal Terminal Action Group released this statement on April 10.
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Community groups in the Hunter Valley have responded with relief and celebration to the announcement of a two-year delay to Newcastle鈥檚 proposed fourth coal terminal (T4).
鈥淭here will be celebration and relief today in suburbs including Mayfield, Tighes Hill and Carrington where residents already live with particle pollution well above the national standard,鈥 said Coal Terminal Action Group spokesperson Annika Dean.
The Victorian government has taken retribution against public housing tenants and their supporters who successfully fought off the privatisation of their open space at two of Melbourne鈥檚 public housing towers 鈥 Richmond estate and Atherton Gardens estate.
Socialist Party Yarra councillor Stephen Jolly doorknocked and organised meetings of tenants and their supporters in a successful campaign. The doorknocking was critical to inform tenants of the state government鈥檚 plans.
Those who live in Australia are used to hearing about how lucky they are. The idea that Australians just don鈥檛 realise their luck has become popular in the lead up to the next federal election by some who feel that it would be crazy to vote out the federal Labor government.
In my work as a service provider for women experiencing domestic violence, I see every day the devastating consequences for women and children of living in a society based on gender inequality.
Violence against women is everywhere, but most of it still occurs in the domestic sphere by people known or related to the abused woman. Most rapes are also committed by people known to the women, and the full extent of rape within relationships is still unknown because it is generally not reported.
The Broome community and environmentalists around Australia are celebrating an important victory. Oil and gas producer Woodside Petroleum said it would not go ahead with a gas hub at James Price Point in the Kimberley.
Long-time Broome resident Nik Weavers told 91自拍论坛 Weekly: 鈥淲e've got rid of the one big thing we set out to do, which was to stop the project, so I feel really excited about that.鈥
Weavers, a member of the Broome No Gas group, said: 鈥淚 feel really warmed that so many other people have gathered [in Broome] and are feeling really good.鈥
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