The January 15 bombing with white phosphorous of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency that housed hundreds of refugees and humanitarian aid was not an isolated incident.
Editorial
“An entire refugee family in one fell swoop was killed this morning as they took cover in their home, which took a direct hit from Israeli shells”, according to a diary direct from Palestine written by Laila El-Haddad and published on January 4 on Electronic Intifada.
There is no room for any doubt that Australia is suffering from an epidemic of domestic violence.
The first 12 months of Kevin Rudd’s federal Labor government have proved to be a continuation of the conservative, pro-war and anti-environmental politics of the Howard years.
After midnight on November 9, Imam Samudra, Amrozi Nurhasyim and Mukhlas Nurhasyim were executed by firing squad on the Indonesian prison island of Nusakambangan.
On May 1, International Workers Day, workers and unionists need to reflect on the greatest challenge facing humanity: global warming.
In a June 25 joint statement issued with his Australians All co-patron and former Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) chairperson Lowitja ODonoghue, former Coalition PM Malcolm Fraser attacked the Howard governments June 21 announcement that it was taking control of 60 Aboriginal communities in remote areas of the Northern Territory as a throwback to past paternalism.
Describing the situation as unprecedentedly dangerous, PM John Howard announced on April 19 that no water will be allocated to irrigators in the Murray-Darling basin after June 31, unless there is substantial rainfall and therefore water inflows to the basin in the next six weeks.
After five years of solitary confinement in a small metal cell, David Hicks pleaded guilty on March 26 to one of the two charges brought against him by US military prosecutors on March 1, to finally get out of the notoriously brutal US military prison at Guantanamo Bay. Hicks’s case has revealed just what a sham the US-led “war on terror” really is.
PM John Howard is facing an election later this year and knows that his governments support for Washingtons war in Iraq is highly unpopular hence his vituperative attacks on Labor leader Kevin Rudds pledge to withdraw Australian troops.
Prime Minister John Howard’s January 25 announcement of plans to deal with the water crisis in the Murray-Darling Basin contains some measures that are small steps in the right direction, such as the replacement of open irrigation channels with covered pipes to reduce evaporation.
US President George Bush used a January 10 address to the nation to declare that 2007 will be another year of war. His decision to send 21,500 more troops to Iraq despite opposition from the overwhelming majority of people in the US, including 鶹ý of the military indicates his governments arrogance, and its unwillingness to learn any lessons from history.
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