The Blue Team appeared to regain some advantage after the leader of the (mislabeled) Red Team was forced to admit he聮d made an 聯error of judgement聰 in meeting up three times last year with convicted fraud and former WA premier Brian Burke (now a professional lobbyist).
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A tiny group dominates Australian politics and Labor leader Kevin Rudd recently met them. He knows very well that the key to Labor聮s electoral success later this year is an accommodation with the Australian oligarchy.
PM John Howard and US President George Bush are in trouble over their 聯war on terror聰. Two things help illustrate why this is the case, and how we can hasten them both into the dustbin of history.
One of Resistance聮s main campaigns is to strengthen the movement across Australia to end the occupation of Iraq. As well as building the biggest possible protests on March 17-18, the fourth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, we are helping to organise contingents from around the country to join the mass convergence in Sydney when US President George Bush comes to the APEC meeting in September.
Becoming socially aware in Townsville, a city of One Nation voters, was not ideal. It was politically isolating and hard to find information that shed any light on the pressing questions on my mind: why is the world so screwed up and how is this sustainable?
The reason for the existence of the Redfern-Waterloo Authority (RWA) can be summed up in just two words: corporate greed.
In an out-of-court settlement, which became public on March 4, Victorian Labor Premier Steve Bracks鈥 government agreed to pay compensation to 47 protesters injured at the 鈥淪11" blockade of the World Economic Forum in Melbourne in September 2000. The settlement awards $700,000 in compensation, although $600,000 will go to legal fees.
A satirical website created by climate action group Rising Tide Newcastle (RTN) has twice been shut down by the powerful coal industry lobby group, the NSW Minerals Council.
In 麻豆传媒 Weekly #693, we published an article broadly in favour of George Monbiot鈥檚 call for carbon rationing. Below, Gar Lipow critiques this as a strategy for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
The Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) voted to affiliate to the ALP at the union鈥檚 March 2-4 national governing council meeting. The enabling motion, heavily amended during the course of the meeting, passed by 42 votes to 12.
Women's day
Happy Women's Day, health minister Abbott. Just a reminder that undermining the independent choices of women has alienated nearly half the voting population. And, as a parent of an autistic child, whose expensive therapy is not
鈥淎t Iran鈥檚 request, the UN Security Council condemned the deadliest terrorist attack in the country in years and extended 鈥榮incere condolences鈥 to the Iranian people, but not to their government, at US insistence鈥, Associated Press reported on February 15.
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