NSW鈥檚 big cities, especially Sydney, are poisoning the environment and making us all sicker and more stressed. The longer we continue with the state鈥檚 鈥渢ransport model鈥 鈥 where cars carry 78% of people to work and trucks 60% of goods 鈥 the worse things will get.
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The Gippsland Trades and Labour Council (GTLC) has expressed outrage at the refusal of power companies and the Victorian government to discuss health and safety in the power industry following two workplace deaths and a serious injury in the La Trobe Valley late in 2006.
US President George Bush has been touring Latin American countries this March with two goals in mind: keep the continent divided and keep it subservient to US imperialist interests. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has also been visiting his neighbours. His goals are the opposite: to unite the countries of Latin America and to encourage and support the continent鈥檚 independence from US imperialism.
The internet launch on March 5 of the Independent Australian Jewish Voices (IAJV) has provoked both criticism and support. Author Antony Loewenstein, one of the initiators, told 91自拍论坛 Weekly that the Jewish establishment reacted 鈥渧ery badly鈥 because, in his view, their position as the spokespeople for the Jewish community for decades is now being challenged.
During a whirlwind tour of a series of Latin American nations, in what the media reported as a 鈥渃ounter-tour鈥 to that being carried out by US President George Bush at the same time, Venezuela鈥檚 socialist President Hugo Chavez signed a number of agreements that extend his country鈥檚 push to integrate the region鈥檚 economies. Via the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA), promoted in alliance with socialist Cuba, Venezuela is signing a large number of agreements that aim to promote pro-people development based on cooperation rather than competition, in order to break foreign economic domination of the continent, predominantly by US capital.
March 14 was Black Bashing Day on Tim Blair鈥檚 blog . Most other days are Muslim-bashing days, but on this day his red-neck cyber-mates decided to pick on Jakalene X, Aboriginal activist, rap artist and the lead candidate on the Socialist Alliance upper house ticket for the March 24 NSW election.
John Bonsai (a very small bush) Howard is morally bankrupt, and cannot be trusted. While Saddam Hussein was a nasty bit of work, all of Bonsai鈥檚 arguments for war were lies.
A March 9 press release by the Washington-based Venezuela Information Office (VIO) pointed out that a US State Department report released on March 6 聯reveals that Venezuela strives to guarantee human rights and in fact, is beefing up measures to provide accessible avenues for lodging complaints and holding violators accountable聰.
'Welfare cheats'
The Howard government has spent the past decade misrepresenting the facts to justify frequent "crackdowns on welfare cheats". There are around 3000 convictions for welfare fraud per year, or 0.05% of the total number of
It seems the Howard government鈥檚 relentless attempts to blast opposition leader Kevin Rudd for meetings last year with disgraced former WA Labor premier and current 鈥減olitical lobbyist鈥 Brian Burke have missed their target, or even backfired. A poll, published in the March 12 Sydney Morning Herald, showed Labor鈥檚 potential vote and approval for Rudd continuing to climb, with support for the Coalition and PM John Howard鈥檚 ratings declining further.
A March 9 Venezuelanalysis.com article reported that the previous day Venezuelan authorities had arrested two National Guard officers over an alleged plot to assassinate Hugo Chavez, the country聮s socialist president. Agents from Venezuela聮s Military Intelligence Directorate took retired General Ramon Guillen Davila and his son, Capitan Tomas Guillen, into custody. They will be tried for instigating rebellion.
The federal Coalition, some state Labor governments and the corporate media have been justifying racist policies by claiming they are defending women鈥檚 rights. This argument has been one of several 鈥渏ustifications鈥 for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and for why we should all be worried about refugee arrivals.
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