Friends of Palestine (WA) member Alex Bainbridge wrote the letter of complaint that appears below to the producers of The Bolt Report and Network Ten after a segment on the show tried to link the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israeli apartheid with the racist measures taken against Jewish businesses by the Hitler regime in the 1930s.
Bainbridge said the claim was a dishonest attempt by opponents of Palestinian human rights to discredit the BDS movement as public interest and support for BDS continues to increase.
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Special Treatment
Starring Isabelle Huppert, Bouli Lanners, Richard Debuisne, Sabila Moussadek, Valerie Dreville
Directed by Jeanne Labrune
In cinemas now
A comedy film about prostitutes and psychoanalysis? Surely only the French could do it, and so it is with this witty, not exactly hilarious, thought-provoking exploration of the overlap between the two professions.
Conservation groups have criticised a new deal on Tasmania鈥檚 forest industry, saying it will not end the logging of old growth forests, it will hand millions of dollars to the logging industry and will not stop Gunns Ltd鈥檚 proposed pulp mill in northern Tasmania going ahead in the face of community opposition.
A coalition of groups in New South Wales came together in June to campaign against the federal government鈥檚 plan to introduce income management for welfare recipients in the Sydney suburb of Bankstown.
The , called 鈥淪ay no to government鈥檚 income management: not in Bankstown, not anywhere鈥, released the open letter below on July 27.
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To ministers Tanya Plibersek and Jenny Macklin and to the local federal members for Banks, Blaxland and Watson.
John Bellamy Foster, the keynote speaker at the upcoming 鈥 to be held in Melbourne from September 30 to October 3 鈥 is the co-author (with Fred Magdoff) of a newly published book: .
As the United States prepares itself for the approaching 2012 presidential election, voters in primaries to select the Republican candidate find themselves inundated by a selection of arch-conservative contenders vying for the opportunity to seize the nomination.
Guided by 鈥淕od鈥, free-market economics and corporate tax cuts, Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann, darling of the right-wing Tea Party, appears at the forefront of such arch-conservative efforts to enter the White House and set in motion an uncompromising far-right agenda.
About 40% of new Disability Support Pension (DSP) recipients may be ruled ineligible as the federal Labor government updates the tables for the assessment of work-related impairment for DSP.
Community services minister Jenny Macklin said on July 30 that the revised impairment tables will be implemented from January 1 next year and will apply to new recipients only. This is the first review of the DSP impairment tables since 1993.
The double meaning in the popular slogan 鈥淲hite Australia has a black history鈥, sadly, still applies to federal, state and territory government policies.
Governments may have apologised for past mistreatment but they are still destroying Aboriginal communities and stealing Aboriginal land. Official racism is as alive as ever.
The Gillard Labor government鈥檚 must be working overtime to churn out titles for programs that say the opposite of what they actually deliver.
Federal riot police have the go-ahead to use Tasers, tear gas, batons, capsicum spray and handcuffs to force refugees onto a flight to Malaysia from Christmas Island. Immigration officials say they will film the ordeal to put online as a 鈥減otent message鈥 to other refugees.
The first asylum seekers to undergo this ordeal arrived in Australian waters less than a week after the 鈥淢alaysia solution鈥 came into effect. A boat carrying 55 Afghan, Iranian and Iraqi refugees was intercepted near Scott Reef on July 31.
More than one third of the asylum seekers on the boat are children.
Supporters of justice for former Guantanamo Bay prisoner David Hicks rallied outside the NSW Supreme Court on August 3 to condemn moves by the Department of Public Prosecutions to seize the proceeds of Hicks鈥 2010 book Guantanamo: My Journey under 鈥減roceeds of crime鈥 laws.
Speakers at the rally included Stop the War Coalition Sydney鈥檚 Pip Hinman, NSW Greens MP David Shoebridge, and peace activist Donna Mulhearn.
Mark Goudkamp from the Sydney Refugee Action Coalition, Gleny Rae, a participant in the SBS series Go Back Where You Came From, and Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young addressed the biggest meeting supporting asylum seekers seen in Newcastle since the Howard era on August 4.
Goudkamp said 54 asylum seekers, 19 of them children, had recently arrived by boat on Christmas Island. They had not yet been told they would be sent to Malaysia. 鈥淭he media reports extra riot police have been sent there,鈥 Goudkamp said. 鈥淏ut the government is saying they have counsellors on hand.鈥
Ten countries and nine jurisdictions in the world have recognised marriage equality since 2001. Many other parts of the world recognise civil unions, registration schemes or same-sex marriages performed outside of the respective country.
Australians are ready to follow suit. Seventy-five percent of Australians expect same-sex marriage to be legalised, said a 2011 Galaxy Poll.
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