The dismissal on November 12 of the charges against alleged terrorist Izhar Ul-Haque after NSW Supreme Court judge Michael Adams ruled on November 2 that ASIO officers had 聯committed the criminal offences of false imprisonment and kidnapping at common law聰, have led to calls for increased oversight over ASIO.
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聯Iran has provided sufficient access to individuals and has responded in a timely manner to questions, and provided clarifications and amplifications聰 about its past nuclear activities that 聯are consistent with 聟 information available to the agency聰, Mohamed ElBaradei, director-general of the UN聮s International Atomic Energy Agency, stated in a 10-page report distributed to the IAEA聮s 35-member governing board on November 15.
Members of grassroots climate change action group Rising Tide chained themselves to a coal train on November 19 to stop the train reaching the port of Newcastle, the world聮s largest coal export port, with a record 80.8 million tonnes being shipped in the 2006-07 financial year.
The split in the English anti-war party, Respect 鈥 The Unity Coalition, which has scored the most successful electoral results for forces to the left of Labour since World War II, saw two conferences by the different sides of the split held simultaneously on November 17. One side are those backing Respect MP George Galloway, including some left-wing Muslim leaders and other independent socialists. On the other is mainly the Socialist Workers Party (SWP), the largest socialist group in England, which has played a leading role in the anti-war movement and been a key component of Respect from its inception.
On November 18, PM John Howard announced that the federal government would consider extending the welfare quarantine currently in place for all Aboriginals on welfare in the NT to all welfare recipients convicted of drug offences. 聯It聮s not right that people should have control of taxpayer money when they have been convicted of such offences聰, he told ABC News. 聯This will mean that they will not be able to spend the money on those sorts of drugs, or indeed, for that matter, on alcohol and tobacco.聰
Protesting journalists in Pakistan were beaten by police on November 21. I travelled to Pakistan earlier this year, and I wish to show my solidarity with the brave struggle for justice being waged against General Pervez Musharraf鈥檚 dictatorship.
Two conferences of the English anti-war party, Respect 鈥 The Unity Coalition, were convened on November 17 in London. Both were attended by around 350 people. The 鈥淩espect Renewal鈥 forces were led by MP George Galloway and 19 other non-Socialist Workers Party members of Respect鈥檚 national council. The SWP convened its own conference across town.
This year there has been a series of drug-related scandals in Australia鈥檚 two major football codes, the Australian Football League (AFL) and the National Rugby League (NRL). The scandals have nothing to do with 鈥減erformance enhancing鈥 drug, or even anything to do with the game of football at all. These scandals have been beaten up by a media circus, which has itself fed a frenzy of moral hypocrisy, led by the (now-former) federal Coalition government, with the 鈥渕e-too鈥 Labor Party chiming in.
A nationwide train strike that had crippled France for nine days in protest against right-wing President Nicholas Sarkozy鈥檚 attack on the rail workers鈥 pension system began to end on November 23. News agencies reported that day that rail workers were voting throughout the country to return to work.
More than 200 prominent individuals from the arts and showbusiness in the United States have signed a letter addressed to President George Bush expressing their support for cultural relations between the US and Cuba.
Despite the fact that the November 24 federal election was supposed to be a 鈥渃limate-change election鈥, the release on November 17 of the fourth and final report from the UN鈥檚 Intergovernental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) barely garnered manstream media attention.
91自拍论坛 Weekly鈥檚 Bronwyn Jennings, spoke with Vaughan Gunson, an activist with Socialist Worker (Aotearoa), which actively participates in the Residents Action Movement, about RAM鈥檚 activities in defence of peoples鈥 rights and against corporate greed.
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