The call by Australian Greens鈥 leader Senator Bob Brown on February 9 for a long-term plan to phase out coalmining, exports and power generation has predictably stirred a barrage of outrage from the coal industry. Brown鈥檚 call also flushed out the Labor-Coalition bipartisan consensus of support for coal-company profits over the environment.
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October 2007 will be the 40th anniversary of Ernesto 聯Che聰 Guevara聮s death in the mountains of Bolivia. It will also be the occasion of what will hopefully be the biggest anti-imperialist convergence Australia has seen in decades 聴 the Latin American and Asia Pacific International Solidarity Forum.
The Socialist Alliance is campaigning for urgent action to address the environmental catastrophe in NSW caused by drought and decades of bad management.
On February 15, PM John Howard鈥檚 government announced that it had agreed to the construction of a new US spy-satellite ground station at the Kojarena intelligence base 30 kilometres east of Geraldton. The new facility will transmit data to and from two US geostationary spy satellites focused on the Middle East and Asia.
An article by Adele Horin in the February 15 Sydney Morning Herald reported the findings of a world authority on income inequality, Sir Anthony Atkinson, of Oxford University, which he presented at a seminar at the social policy research centre at the University of NSW.
The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and Global Footprint Network聮s 2006 report, Living Planet, released last October, painted a grim picture of the calamitous state of the world聮s environment. It warned that human activities are outstripping the natural world聮s capacity to regenerate.
"Twenty-five and 30 years ago, like a lot of other Australians I was involved in actions and activities across this country [against US bases]. Of course you change your mind about some things over time, no one listening to this interview would
Protest Cheney鈥檚 visit! Join the protests against US Vice-President Dick Cheney鈥檚 visit. Sydney * 5.30pm, February 22, Sydney Town Hall * 8am, February 23, Shangri-la Hotel, cnr. Essex and George Streets, the Rocks Phone Simon on 0438 297 552 or Paddy on 0415 800 586 Canberra * 5pm, February 23, Garema Place, Civic Phone James on 0403 943 529
At a meeting in Melbourne on February 8 journalist and film-maker John Pilger hailed Shirley Shackleton as one of Australia聮s 聯heroes聰. He praised her tireless dedication, since 1975, in exposing the genocide in East Timor and in pursuing the truth about the death of five journalists in Balibo, East Timor. One of the journalists killed was her husband Greg Shackleton.
鈥淲e, and millions of people around the world 鈥 believe another world is possible, a world free from war, poverty and hunger. Here in Venezuela the [government of socialist President Hugo Chavez] along with the majority of the people in our country are fighting hard to build this new world, despite the attempts of the old elite and the US government to prevent us from succeeding.鈥 This is what 25-year-old university student Germania Fernandez told Pablo Navarrete, according to a December 1 article on Venezuelanalysis.com.
Aslyum seekers
On February 15, the US government agreed to offer asylum to 7000 Iraqi refugees who had left their homeland and had been waiting in third countries such as Jordan and Syria. A US team is scheduled to go to Amman, Jordan, on February
The Howard government聮s Work Choices laws are not bringing about 聯a more flexible, simpler and fairer system of workplace relations for Australia聰, as the Howard government likes to argue, according to two recent damning research papers. The studies also disprove Canberra聮s claim that the laws have improved productivity, increased wages, balanced work and family life and reduced unemployment.
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