In a hot, leaky, corrugated tin shed behind Redfern鈥檚 disused railway yards lie the embers of a smouldering story of injustice. As an Aboriginal artist, 69 year-old Gordon Syron knows about injustice. He's seen systemic apartheid, legal bias and abuse of Aboriginal people all his life.
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There has been much ink spilled in the corporate press about the number of dollars and soldiers being committed to Haiti by 鈥渢he international community鈥, but as a January 20 US ABC News headline bluntly put it: 鈥淚n rebuilding Haiti, opportunity knocks and companies profit.鈥
New figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics said unemployment had fallen in January by 22,300 to 612,000 鈥 a drop of 0.2% to 5.3%. The ABS, which released its unemployment figures on February 11, estimated that 52,700 jobs were created in January.
Andrew Bolt of Melbourne鈥檚 Herald Sun published a mind-blowing scoop on his blog on February 6: there are socialists in the movement against climate change.
Minister for Aboriginal affairs Jenny Macklin will move in March to restore the Racial Discrimination Act (RDA) in the Northern Territory. But the move has been described by Aboriginal advocates as a cynical ploy.
Further evidence of the authoritarianism of Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa鈥檚 regime came with the February 8 arrest of former general Sarath Fonseka, who had stood against Rajapaksa in the January 26 presidential elections.
During the 1960s, radical student movements broke out in countries across the world. Unlike in Europe, North America or Australia, Pakistan鈥檚 student movement proved strong enough to overthrow a government.
Socialist councillor Sam Wainwright has called on Fremantle residents to support a March 11 rally against the state government鈥檚 attacks on the public sector.
The December 7-18 United Nations climate conference in Copenhagen was supposed to 鈥渟eal a global deal鈥 to tackle climate change. It failed miserably.
On February 1, NSW premier Kristina Keneally announced changes to public transport fares and ticketing at a Parramatta railway station press conference.
After holding power in Chile since the end of Pinochet鈥檚 military dictatorship in 1988, the social democratic coalition Concertacion lost power to the right wing Alianza coalition in the December and January elections.
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