On February 18, 10 Australian economists criticised the Rudd government聮s proposed carbon emissions trading scheme, and called for a science-based policy to achieve 25%-40% cuts in emissions by 2020. The statement is reprinted below.
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More than 4000 signatures on a petition in support of Gaza were handed over to ALP federal MP Julia Irwin outside her Cecil Hills office on March 7. They were collected over the last two months. Irwin has pledged to table the petition in parliament.
The free market has got us into this mess, and the free market will get us out of it.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd likes to give the impression that he takes his mission very seriously.
"Democracy, yes! Dictatorship, no!", chanted protesters outside the Hilton Hotel in Sydney on March 4, where visiting South Korean President Lee Myung-bak was staying. The protest was organised by the Korean Resource Centre.
On February 26, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd gave his first 鈥渞eport card鈥 on the progress made on ending Aboriginal disadvantage, meeting a delayed election promise to do so every year at the opening of parliament. Rudd鈥檚 report, however, has been meet with criticism from Aboriginal activists and supporters.
Keynesianism and neoliberalism Graham Matthews' interview with Professor Bill Mitchell (GLW #785) presents a standard Keynesian view of the economic crisis. Essentially, it claims that the crisis is due to the bad policies of neoliberalism:
Commonwealth prosecutors have dropped nine of the charges against three Tamil men, Aruran Vinayagamoorthy, Sivarajah Yathavan and Arumugam Rajeevan.
The article below, by Jamal Juma, is abridged from . Juma is the coordinator of the Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign (visit ). A leader of the South African Palestine Solidarity Committee mentioned in this article, Salim Vally, will be a guest speaker at the
World at a Crossroads conference, Sydney Girls High, April 10-12. For more information, or to register, visit
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Under conditions of deepening recession, millions of working people went to the polls in the US on November 4 with the intention of voting for a change to the pro-corporate and pro-war policies of the Bush administration.
While the US and European economies are in recession, the World Bank and International Monetary Fund inspired 聯export聰 oriented policies being followed by the government of India are about to create social and environmental catastrophe in the name of 聯special economic zones聰 (SEZs 聴 geographical areas in which less regulations on labour rights, environmental practices and other areas are applied on companies).
The article below is reprinted from Richard Fidler鈥檚 blog, , on February 26. On March 4, the strike was suspended after 44 days, with most of the strikers demands being met.
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