The following statement is from the Liquor Hospitality and Miscellaneous Workers Union (LHMU) Queensland.
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I've always been pretty passionate about socialism 鈥 I read the Communist Manifesto in high school 鈥 but I've never been inspired to get active until now. I'd seen 麻豆传媒 Weekly around but hadn't really considered it seriously until I sat down and started reading through it.
The Australian right has long staked a proprietary claim over the nation鈥檚 First World War experience, holding up the 鈥渄iggers鈥 as models of conservative virtue.
Portugal鈥檚 parliamentary elections, held on September 27, changed the political landscape. The governing Socialist Party (PS), which had an absolute majority in 2005 after winning 45% of votes, lost more than half a million votes and fell to 36.56%.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reiterating Washington鈥檚 support on October 5 for the Arias Plan to resolve the Honduran crisis, which she hoped would 鈥済et Honduras back on the path to a more sustainable democracy鈥. But the plan would see Honduran President Manuel Zelaya return to his post and sit out the rest of his term without any real power.
Students at the University of Sydney said the federal government鈥檚 proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) is not a solution to climate change at a student general meeting on October 7.
One of the infamous 鈥渄ouble-speak鈥 slogans of the nightmare totalitarian regime in George Orwell鈥檚 1984 was 鈥渨ar is peace鈥. The Nobel jury appears to have based itself on this principle of inverting reality with its decision to grant this year鈥檚 Nobel Peace Prize to US President Barack Obama.
The following letter is in response to a Sydney Morning Herald editorial. It was sent to that paper but not published.
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People in the Philippines are struggling to rebuild after Typhoon Ketsana caused widespread flooding and landslides.
The Sri Lankan government has continued to use 鈥渆mergency鈥 measures justified by Sri Lanka鈥檚 25-year civil war against the pro-independence Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) to severely limit democratic rights, despite declaring a final victory in the war in May.
Rain and a smaller than expected crowd failed to dampen the spirits of committed peace activists who gathered at Bondi Beach on October 4. On the day Sydney was host to a leg of the 160,000 kilometre global march for peace, organised by World Without Wars.
In May, the New South Wales Labor government introduced a new law lowering the threshold for public intoxication before which a person could be 鈥渕oved on鈥 or potentially arrested by police. The threshold was changed from 鈥渟eriously drunk鈥 to 鈥渘oticeably drunk鈥.
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