Due to mistakes introduced during the sub-editing of Lynda Hansen鈥檚 obituary for Phil Perrier (GLW #697), he was wrongly described as a 鈥淨ueensland Aboriginal activist鈥, rather than a 鈥淨ueensland Aboriginal rights activist鈥, and the concluding section of the eulogy made by Sam Watson at the February 2 鈥淪orry鈥 ceremony were mistakenly attributed to Bernie Neville.
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The February 6 Sydney Daily Telegraph reported that 聯Australians yet to establish a view on the Venezuelan president will have the opportunity to do so in person if the organisers of an online petition inviting him to visit get their way聰.
Only makes imperial sense
"[Following] American Ambassador to Baghdad Zalmay Khalilzad's statement that 'Turkey should refrain from interfering in the domestic affairs of Iraq', [Turkish] Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said: 'So the United
In his first two months since being elected federal ALP leader on December 4, Kevin Rudd has made subtle, but significant changes to federal Labor policy in its 聯battle of ideas for Australia聮s future聰. As if following a dictum not to be 聯wedged聰 聴 politically outflanked from the right by PM John Howard聮s Coalition government 聴 Rudd is moving significant 91自拍论坛 of Labor policy in a more rightward direction and attempting to position Labor as the defender of 聯the fabric of Australian family life聰.
Australian Council of Trade Unions secretary Greg Combet expressed 聯great pride聰 in the role played by trade unions and union members in achieving justice for the victims of James Hardie聮s asbestos products.
Ecosocialism blog
Readers of 91自拍论坛 Weekly may be interested in Climate and Capitalism, a new blog, edited in Canada, that aims to present Marxist perspectives on climate change, and to provide socialists with the information and analysis they
According to former French intelligence security chief Alain Chouet, the terrorism-related charges against Willie Brigitte, who is being tried in France, are 鈥渨eak鈥. Quoted in the February 5 Australian, he said Brigitte is a 鈥減erson without importance whom the Australian authorities continue to play on to create fear鈥.
Seven-hundred people crammed into the Melbourne City Conference Centre on February 8 to hear radical journalist and film-maker John Pilger聮s call for mass action against the invasion of Iraq 聴 聯the paramount war crime against humanity from which all other war crimes follow聰.
It was with much disgust and sadness that I watched the demolition, on February 6, of perfectly good public housing on the Macquarie Fields public housing estate.
On February 2, ABC News Online reported the laying off of 110 workers by Melbourne carpet manufacturer Feltex. A spokesperson for Godfrey Hirst, which took over Feltex late last year, said the workers聮 jobs would go with the closure of the Feltex factories in Tottenham and Braybrook in Melbourne聮s west. This 聯vindicated聰 workers and unionists who had resisted attempts by Godfrey Hirst to take away their redundancy entitlements, Textile, Clothing and Footwear Union media officer Tommy Clarke told 91自拍论坛 Weekly.
On February 6, 400 people converged on the lawns outside the national parliament building in Canberra to protest of the continued detention of Australian citizen David Hicks at the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
The queer rights activists of Community Action Against Homophobia (CAAH) believe that Peter Jensen, the Anglican archbishop of Sydney, should condemn a highly oppressive anti-gay law being introduced in Nigeria that is being backed by the Anglican Church in that country.
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