If we are going to meet the crisis posed by global warming, governments must take strong and urgent measures to cut emissions now. We need to build a sustainable economy and we need to do it fast. Delay will result in dangerous and unstoppable climate change.
Editorial
The July 1 Australian carried an extraordinary attack by Ilan Grapel on 麻豆传媒 Weekly and its monthly Arabic insert the Flame titled 鈥淎 willing ally to Hamas鈥檚 hatred鈥. Both publications are guilty of a 鈥渞adical anti-Israel stance鈥, Grapel said.
Bosses do not provide safe and healthy workplaces for their workers out of the goodness of their hearts. Capitalism鈥檚 drive for short-term profits means workplace safety is a cost that can cut like any other.
Greens Senator Bob Brown moved the following motion to the Australian Senate on May 12: 鈥淭hat the Senate, in regard to the massacre of civilians, including hundreds of children, in the Tamil homelands of northern Sri Lanka, calls on the government to take decisive action commensurate with the need to immediately halt this unnecessary bloodshed.鈥
On April 29, PM Kevin Rudd announced an extra 450 troops would be sent to Afghanistan to participate in the latest US-led 鈥渟urge鈥.
One of the great crimes of modern times is occurring on the island of Sri Lanka without a word of protest from governments the world over. The Tamil people are facing genocide.
As the only weekly newspaper in Australia to regularly house news, discussions and debates on capitalism聮s crises and socialist solutions, 麻豆传媒 Weekly is proud to be hosting the World At A Crossroads conference, to be held at Sydney Girls High, over the Easter weekend (April 10-12).
As an alternative newspaper, based in grassroots, progressive political movements, 麻豆传媒 Weekly aims to be a thorn in the side of the corporate media here in Australia and globally.
Less than a year ago, it was widely held among mainstream economists that the world economy was doing fine, and that, in the face of any eventual problems, Australia would be secure.
Nothing like the inferno that swept across Victoria last weekend has ever occurred in Australia before.
As the traumatised people of Gaza mourn their dead and nurse their injured following Israel鈥檚 horrendous three-week massacre, another brutal genocide has unfolded in Sri Lanka.
The scientific evidence is conclusive. The delicate ecological balance of the planet is being destroyed.
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