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Ambos bail up minister

Fifty ambulance officers and paramedics campaigning for more staff and better conditions bailed up Victorian health minister Daniel Andrews as he visited Geelong on September 19.

Garrett gives Gunns more time

Federal environment minister Peter Garrett has maintained for weeks that he had not been approached by Gunns timber company to extend the deadline on the environmental approval process for the company鈥檚 proposed pulp mill in the Tamar Valley. Last week, however, the government extended the deadline from October 4 to January 5.

Let them eat jam

On September 15, in his last full day as federal opposition leader, Brendan Nelson confronted the Labor government with a tin of baked beans and a jar of jam. 鈥淭hat is the reality for Australian pensioners: baked beans and jam sandwiches鈥, Nelson said, moving a censure motion against the government for its failure to agree to increase the Age Pension by $30 a week.

The Bones of September

Two vast and trunkless legs of steel Like silent Pharaohs over Wall Street stood Scraping the vast canvas of immortality @poetry = How many died erecting those towers: Welders of iron, exoskeletal beams? Manhattan is missing her two front

'Historic changes' shaking Nepal

In April, Nepal held historic elections for a new constituent assembly, a product of years of pro-democracy struggle against the monarchy, including a 10-year-long 聯people聮s war聰 waged by the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist (CPN-M), which easily won the largest share of seats in the assembly.

Seven convicted of 'terrorism'

The trial of 12 Muslim men under the 聯anti-terror聰 laws has ended with seven being found guilty of one or more charges, four found not guilty and the jury unable to decide on one.

The Rudd government must help Cuba and Haiti

Everyone remembers the tropical storm that swept through Northern Queensland in 2006, destroying that year聮s banana production, flattening houses and creating widespread misery. Now imagine if that hurricane had:

'Do you want to play again?'

War Games
Directed by John Badham, Written by Lawrence Lasker & Walter Parkes
With Matthew Broderick & Ally Sheedy
25th anniversary DVD release

Financial crash: A system in chaos

The latest chaos on Wall Street 鈥 the worst financial upheaval in the US since the 1930s Great Depression 鈥 highlights not just the scale of the world financial crisis, but the needless destruction caused by the blind competition at the core of capitalism.

Huyck Wagmer workers strike for better pay

Workers at Huyck Wagner in Breakwater have been trying to negotiate a new wage agreement for several months. The boss聮s offer of a 2% pay rise would mean, given current inflation, a pay cut in real terms.

Socialist candidates: for stronger, greener communities

The Socialist Alliance will stand two candidates for the City of Maribyrnong in the November council elections, on a platform of 聯community and environment before developers聮 profits聰.

Anti-Flag: powerful and dynamic

The Bright Lights of America
Anti-Flag
Fat Wreck Chords, 2008
13 tracks, $29.99