The Socialist Alliance "Howard Overboard" election night party in 麻豆传媒 Weekly's offices in Sydney spontaneously spilled into the streets when John Howard conceded defeat. Jubilant activists celebrated with chants, whistles and pots and pans in a lap around the block which drew out people from their homes. A right-wing government that has plagued Australia since 1996 has been defeated and we have much to celebrate.
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I became a grandfather last week. The much-anticipated first grandchild arrived at 11.42pm. That聮s worse than it sounds because she was born in Perth and I live in Sydney 聴 two hours ahead. I groggily answered the phone but my eldest daughter聮s excited voice woke me up quickly and the memory of the birth of my younger daughter just 11 years ago came rushing back.
Fighting social exclusion? (1)
On November 22 Labor deputy leader and industrial relations shadow minister Julia Gillard announced that a Rudd Labor government would set up an "office of social inclusion" within the Department of the Prime
Speakers at a 100-strong rally supporting the November 17 national day of action for Indigenous rights condemned the Howard Coalition government聮s 聯emergency聰 intervention into Northern Territory Aboriginal communities and expressed disappointment with the ALP for its 聯me-too聰 approach
The following article was written by Migrante Australia, an organisation dedicated to organising and mobilising Filipino migrants and protecting their rights and welfare.
Brian Senewiratne: 聯I have been a strong supporter of the left in my native Sri Lanka since I was 16 years old. I am now 76, and remain convinced, even more so, that it is the capitalist policies, first under the colonial British and later the Brown Sahibs of my ethnic group, the Sinhalese, that have taken that country to its condition of failing state.
Rail workers from the German train drivers union, the Gewerkschaft Deutscher Lokomotivf眉hrer (GDL), have repeatedly brought the country to a standstill in recent weeks, with rolling strikes against the state-owned rail company Deutsche Bahn AG.
Despite the fact that the November 24 federal election was supposed to be a 鈥渃limate-change election鈥, the release on November 17 of the fourth and final report from the UN鈥檚 Intergovernental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) barely garnered manstream media attention.
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While voting at the pre-polling booth in Katoomba, I was handed a flyer entitled "How to vote for Your Rights at Work" in the Macquarie electorate. As a strong supporter of the Your Rights at Work campaign, who has letterboxed for it
The following article is excerpted from a speech to a November 5 Council on the Aging (COTA) forum in Hobart by Susan Austin, who was the Socialist Alliance聮s candidate for Denison.
The fourth report from the UN聮s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, released on November 17, concludes that there is 聯unequivocal聰 evidence that human-induced global warming is already under way and, if left unchecked, will lead to rising sea levels, more fierce storms, and more floods and droughts.
Protesting journalists in Pakistan were beaten by police on November 21. I travelled to Pakistan earlier this year, and I wish to show my solidarity with the brave struggle for justice being waged against General Pervez Musharraf鈥檚 dictatorship.
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