On January 29, the federal court granted the Australian Crime Commission (ACC) access to confidential medical files held by the largest medical clinic servicing remote Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory 鈥 breaking doctor-patient confidentiality.
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鈥淕ay-rights campaigners and secularists called on Tuesday for protests during a visit to Britain by Pope Benedict XVI this year after he condemned equality legislation seen as friendly to gays鈥, AFP said on February 1.
Lenin Rediscovered: What Is To Be Done? In ContextBy Lars T. Lih, Haymarket Books, Chicago 2008840 pp., $89:95 pb.
Increased interest rates, declining working hours and stagnating wages are still chipping away at working people鈥檚 living standards, despite small falls in the official unemployment rate in November and December.
Pacific Rim are a Canadian multinational firm seeking to exploit the 鈥淓l Dorado鈥 gold deposits in El Salvador's rural north.
On February 2, opposition leader Tony Abbott released the Liberal-National Coalition鈥檚 climate policy. For the Coalition, just as for the Rudd government, there鈥檚 one thing that鈥檚 irrelevant to climate policy 鈥 climate science. In Abbott鈥檚 30-page document, the global warming crisis doesn鈥檛 rate one mention.
Hundreds of thousands of Hondurans took to the streets on January 27 to protest the inauguration of Porfirio 鈥淧epe鈥 Lobo, who was the victor in fraudulent elections held last November. Jeffery R. Webber spoke during the march with Rafael Alegria, a key leader in the National Resistance Front Against the Coup (FNRG) and a Honduran leader of the international peasant movement, Via Campesina. This is reprinted from .
Perhaps one of the most breathtakingly hypocritical moments of the past year was when US President Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel peace prize.
On June 28 last year, US-trained military officers overthrew elected President Manuel Zelaya. This sparked sustained mass resistance from the poor majority, angry that the rich had overthrown a president who had carried out pro-poor reforms and sought to begin a democratic process to change the pro-elite constitution.
Unite is the fastest growing private sector union in New Zealand. Since being formed in 2004, it has grown to 8000 members.
In & Out of the Working Class
Michael D. Yates
Arbeiter Ring Publishing, 2009
217 pp, $19.95.
A number of refugees in the Christmas Island detention centre remain in a state of lock-down, following an argument over a pool table on November 21.
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