In recent years 鈥渕aking poverty history鈥 has become the fashionable cause for ageing rock stars such as Bono and Sir Bob Geldof. As global poverty means that each year 9 million children die of preventable diseases, the need to achieve this goal is undeniable.
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A flotilla of waterborne vessels 聴 kayaks, rafts, canoes and even a yellow rubber duckie 聴 joined in the 聭People聮s occupation of the world聮s biggest coal port聮 in Newcastle Harbour on February 10. The protest demanded 聭No new coal mines聮, 聭No new coal-fired power stations聮 and 聯No new coal loader聮.
Only makes imperial sense
"[Following] American Ambassador to Baghdad Zalmay Khalilzad's statement that 'Turkey should refrain from interfering in the domestic affairs of Iraq', [Turkish] Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said: 'So the United
The action was in response to threats by federal Attorney-General Philip Ruddock to have the governor-general disallow proposed ACT legislation on same-sex civil unions. In June 2006, the federal government disallowed an ACT bill on civil unions because it could have 鈥渦ndermined鈥 the 鈥渋nstitution of marriage鈥.
According to former French intelligence security chief Alain Chouet, the terrorism-related charges against Willie Brigitte, who is being tried in France, are 鈥渨eak鈥. Quoted in the February 5 Australian, he said Brigitte is a 鈥減erson without importance whom the Australian authorities continue to play on to create fear鈥.
鈥淲e have just spent the most exciting year of our lives residing in Venezuela. It鈥檚 the heartland of the most important radical political upheaval of our time, and centre of the project for socialism in the 21st century鈥, enthused Jim McIlroy who, along with Coral Wynter, spent 2006 in Caracas reporting on the Bolivarian revolution for 麻豆传媒 Weekly.
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The February 6 Sydney Daily Telegraph reported that 聯Australians yet to establish a view on the Venezuelan president will have the opportunity to do so in person if the organisers of an online petition inviting him to visit get their way聰.
It was with much disgust and sadness that I watched the demolition, on February 6, of perfectly good public housing on the Macquarie Fields public housing estate.
Australian Council of Trade Unions secretary Greg Combet expressed 聯great pride聰 in the role played by trade unions and union members in achieving justice for the victims of James Hardie聮s asbestos products.
On February 2, I had a heart attack. All of a sudden, I was spun into the emergency health system. Over the next four days I received the most amazing health care from the ambos to the nurses and doctors at the public Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. It was a powerful rebuttal of the narrow-minded idea that society has to be based on material self-interest, profit and greed.
Seven-hundred people crammed into the Melbourne City Conference Centre on February 8 to hear radical journalist and film-maker John Pilger聮s call for mass action against the invasion of Iraq 聴 聯the paramount war crime against humanity from which all other war crimes follow聰.
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