The has called for Australia Post to expand its services to include banking and insurance. The postal workers' union said this would help strengthen Australia Post as a public enterprise, while challenging the power of the big four banks and improving services in regional and rural areas.
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Invasion Day 2014 Mixtape
Brisbane Blacks
Released January 26, 2014
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As countless Australians donned their Cronulla capes and sank slabs of piss this Australia Day, non-profit publication marked the occasion by releasing a free album full of protest songs.
So now reporting the news is Un-Australian. This is the line from prime minister and proud Australian Tony Abbott, strongly backed by media owned by proud Australian and American-citizen-for-tax-purposes Rupert Murdoch, whose Daily Telegraph screamed on its January 30 front page, 鈥淧M brands ABC un-Australian: THE ABC OF TREACHERY.鈥
The right-wing war on renewables is heating up as the Tony Abbott government announces yet another investigation into wind energy and health, and a review of the Renewable Energy Target.
Australian activists have written to Prime Minister Tony Abbott calling on him to recognise East Timor's rights under international law to oil and gas resources in the Timor Sea.
The Melbourne-based Timor Sea Justice Campaign is calling on Australia to 鈥渆nter discussions about the establishment of permanent maritime boundaries in accordance with current international law. In situations such as this, current international law overwhelmingly favors a 鈥榤edian line鈥 solution 鈥 a line halfway between the two coastlines.鈥
On January 28, the NSW government announced coal seam gas (CSG) reforms, including exclusion zones and a gateway process for some of the state's farmland. Under these 鈥渇inalised鈥 reforms, 96.6% of NSW can still be developed for CSG mining, including drinking water catchments.
Stop CSG Illawarra spokesperson Jess Moore stated: "These exclusion zones are a win for the campaign and for the people of NSW, but they are not enough to protect land and water.
"The gateway process cannot block CSG proposals. Under these reforms 96.6% of the state can still be developed for CSG mining.
If you鈥檙e the sort of person who doesn鈥檛 like your kids mixing with problem families, the type who are always getting arrested, you wouldn鈥檛 want them going near Tony Blair, would you?
Five times now he鈥檚 been the subject of a citizen鈥檚 arrest. This fits with what the police often say, that the vast majority of crimes are committed by a handful of repeat-offending troublemakers.
Whenever he鈥檚 asked in interviews about the war that caused his problems, he gives an exasperated sigh and says: 鈥淥h look, I mean, huh, we鈥檝e been through this many times before.鈥
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki called on the people of Falluja to rise up on January 6 and drive out armed groups affiliated to al-Qaeda.
News accounts reported that Falluja had 鈥渃ompletely fallen鈥 to the Islamist fighters. The Iraqi army was poised to retake the city, said Maliki. He asked Sunni tribes to help.
Sunni fighters had already taken to the streets, the BBC said, not to help expel the Islamists, but to resist any assault by Maliki's forces.
Once a year, the world's political and business leaders flock to a small town in the Alps to drink champagne, chow down on fondue and chocolate-covered strawberries, hit the ski slopes, bathe in hot tubs and exchange business cards as they congratulate themselves on the fine job they're doing running things.
Oh, and while in Davos, Switzerland, they also take part in the World Economic Forum (WEF), which took place from January 22-25.
鈥淪eattle鈥檚 only Socialist City Council member announced Monday that she will make good on a campaign pledge and accept only [US]$40,000 a year in salary 鈥 bringing her down to the average wage of a worker in the city,鈥 on January 27.
Many people may wonder why Yingluck Shinawatra's Pheu Thai Party鈥檚 government, which came to power supported by the poor-based Red Shirt mass movement, seems to be paralysed in the face of violent and criminal actions by Sutep Tuaksuban's Democrat Party mob.
It is not due to 鈥渋nvisible hands鈥 from the throne or covert military support for Sutep. In fact, the top elites regard Sutep and his acolytes as lowly street gangsters.
Division among ruling circles in the United States and internationally about what to do about the revelations of wholesale NSA spying continues to deepen.
A January 17 speech by US President Barack Obama, which was supposed to move the discussion forward, was a flop. Polls indicate it failed to change people鈥檚 minds.
He gave his usual 鈥渙n the one hand, and on the other鈥 type speech trying to appease both sides, but came down in defence of the NSA program.
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