Traffic congestion and laissez-faire policy
The Ken Henry review of Australia's taxation system is considering recommending the use of 鈥淭elematic readers鈥 to deal with the growing problem of traffic congestion in our cities.
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Sara Moss has been writing, publishing and performing poetry for over 15 years. Her work has appeared in print and online journals and she has one published full-length collection.
In 2001, the London Observer published a series of reports claiming an 鈥淚raqi connection鈥 to al-Qaeda, even describing the base in Iraq where the training of terrorists took place and a facility where anthrax was being made as a weapon of mass destruction.
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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In early October, 麻豆传媒 Weekly visited the Alyawarr people鈥檚 walk-off camp, three hours north-east of Alice Springs.
On September 30, violent clashes between indigenous protestors and police in Ecuador left at least one protester dead, and nine protesters and 40 police injured, the October 1 Latin American Herald Tribune said.
The Norwegian government pension fund has been accused of unethical investment in fertiliser companies that buy phosphate rock exported from Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara.
Hundreds of people braved gale-force winds and driving rain to attend Climate Camp 鈥09 in Helensburgh, on NSW鈥檚 south coast, over October 9-11. The activists took part in workshops, performances and an Aboriginal welcome and smoking ceremony.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, from the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU), was returned to power in the September 27 federal elections. But the vote was marked by a record low voter turnout and a significantly increased vote for the far-left party, Die Linke (鈥淭he Left鈥).
On October 30, construction worker Ark Tribe will go to court in Adelaide. Workers will take solidarity protest actions across the country to show support for their fellow worker. Tribe has been unjustly targeted by the Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC).
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