Gough Whitlam has passed away aged 98. 麻豆传媒 will run more detailed analysis of his significance and legacy, but for now here is Sydney-based Celtic punk band Roaring Jack, fronted by Scottish socialist Alistair Hulett, with "The Ballad of '75" about the coup that removed the Whitlam government from power.
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In celebration of the nationally acclaimed Day of Indigenous Resistance on October 13, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro handed over collective land titles to 14 original communities. Maduro also established a presidential council for indigenous peoples, lowered the threshold age for indigenous pensioners, and announced the creation of an institute to protect the country鈥檚 44 native languages.
NSW ALP Senator John Faulkner, luminary of the Labor left, has been complaining of the structural flaws in the party for decades. Despite being a long-time beneficiary of the party鈥檚 factionalism, almost 10 years ago he was writing of the 鈥渟hared venality鈥 of party apparatchiks that led it back beyond factionalism. 鈥淚t is feudalism, and it is killing the ALP.鈥 Last week he was at it again in his address to the 鈥淟ight on the Hill Society鈥 at Revesby Workers Club in western Sydney.
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