Socialist Alliance members in Geelong have been victims of a vicious, post-election smear campaign. Federal police are investigating a Facebook page that called for the assassination of PM-elect Tony Abbott.
The creator of the page has not been identified, but they claimed an association with the Geelong branch of the Socialist Alliance and appeared to be posting from Geelong Trades Hall, where Socialist Alliance has its office.
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Australia鈥檚 recent federal election should be remembered as the election that forgot about climate change. Serious action to address climate change was a non-issue for the two big parties and the mainstream media, despite the country experiencing its , and warmest 12-month period on record.
September 11 marked 40 years since a brutal military coup brought down the left-wing government of President Salvador Allende in Chile.
The "Other September 11" represented the state terrorist actions of the US government and the CIA in subverting and overthrowing a democratically elected progressive government 鈥 one of many such right-wing coups sponsored by the US in Latin America over the past century.
Aboriginal Australians awoke on Sunday morning to find they had a new 鈥淧rime Minister for Indigenous Affairs鈥, a pledge Tony Abbott delivered during the 2013 election campaign.
One problem 鈥 noone, including within the media, ever stopped to ask Aboriginal people if they actually wanted a 鈥淧rime Minister for Indigenous Affairs鈥, and in particular whether they wanted Abbott.
As it turns out, they apparently don鈥檛.
Since the election of Tony Abbott鈥檚 Coalition government, 91自拍论坛 Weekly has had a rush of new subscribers and many renewals. These people recognise the critical role 91自拍论坛 Weekly will play in the trying period ahead.
One regular subscriber bought a subscription for her daughter. "She needs to know what is going on under this terrible man, Tony Abbott," the subscriber said when I took her call.
Her trepidation is shared by many 鈥 with good reason.
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The Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network (AVSN) will host its 14th solidarity brigade to Venezuela over December 4-13. The registration closing date has now been extended to October 1.
The Socialist Alliance ran seven lower house candidates and a Senate team in NSW in the recent federal elections. Through letterboxing, campaign stalls, public forums and polling day, it engaged people who wanted to be involved in activism and politics in a meaningful way.
Pro-choice activists fear that a new bill, soon to go to NSW parliament, will pose a threat to women鈥檚 reproductive rights. 鈥淶oe鈥檚 law鈥 will create a new offence that recognises crime or harm against a foetus.
The Crimes Amendment (Zoe鈥檚 Law) Bill 2013 No. 2 was introduced by Liberal MP Chris Spence. It is named after the stillborn daughter of Brodie Donegan, who was 32-weeks pregnant when she was hit by a car on Christmas day in 2009 near Ourimbah on the central coast. Donegan suffered severe injuries and an emergency caesarean was too late to save the foetus.
Just before the federal election that put Tony Abbott in power, his soon-to-be immigration minister Scott Morrison said the government may stop telling the public when asylum boats arrive in Australia.
Instead, reporting details about boat arrivals 鈥 including numbers on board, their nationalities and whether any are children 鈥 would be an 鈥渙perational decision鈥 of the defence officers in charge of the Coalition's 鈥淥peration Sovereign Borders鈥.
Digital Disconnect:
How Capitalism Is Turning the Internet Against Democracy
Robert W McChesney
Spring 2013
www.thenewpress.com
When award-winning author Robert McChesney wrote a much-needed political and economic analysis of the internet, the reaction from his peers was not quite what he expected.
Soft brown eyes flicked furtively towards the guard鈥檚 room, then back to the ripe luscious strawberry she had carefully placed on the table鈥檚 edge. She waited for the guard鈥檚 laconic indifference to blend into the certainty of distraction, then secreted the treasure in her loose pocket.
鈥淔or my friend,鈥 she confided, while a hint of defiance momentarily lit up eyes that for most of our visit had spilled out a lifetime of sorrow and loss. 鈥淢y pregnant friend.鈥
鈥淭he worst genocide of this century鈥 was how Paul Newman, professor of human rights at the University of Bangalore, described what has happened to the Tamil people in Sri Lanka.
Newman was delivering the Eliezer memorial lecture, in memory of Professor CJ Eliezer, the founder of the Eelam Tamil Association of Victoria, at Monash University on August 25.
Newman was speaking on democracy in south Asia. He began by outlining some common features of the south Asian countries including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan and Sri Lanka, before discussing Sri Lanka in more detail.
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