91自拍论坛 TV's coverage of the Sydney World Refugee Day rally, held on Sunday June 16.
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The Harmony Centre, a coalition of left-wing parties, won 59% of popular vote in the municipal elections held in this Eastern European country on June 1.
When the Turkish Prime Minister ayyip Erdogan called the protesters in the streets of Istanbul plunderers (莽补辫耻濒肠耻) on June 2, he contributed a new verb to the English language.
A video clip of the resistance 鈥 entitled 鈥淓veryday I'm Chapuling鈥 鈥 hit the internet on June 4 with new lyrics written on the pop song 鈥淓veryday I'm Shufflin鈥. And the new English verb was born: to chapul.
Soon after, the word moved to the French language and found a place among such words as liberte, egalite and fraternite: chapulite.
Former Greens leader Bob Brown explains why he supports 91自拍论坛 Weekly as the alternative to the Murdoch press.
In the latest bid to convince desperate people not to seek safety in our country, the federal government is running an ad campaign on primetime Afghan TV directed at members of the persecuted Hazara ethnic minority.
The Australian Rail Track Corporation (ARTC) and Brisbane-based consultant Katestone have come under fire for releasing a report, on coal train dust in the Hunter Valley, that appeared to have been doctored.
The ARTC is a federal-owned corporation and leases rail track from the NSW government. It is in charge of most rail track other than dedicated inner city passenger rail corridors, including rail tracks that deal mainly in freight and commodity haulage.
Markets are neither free nor efficient, and they are bad for the environment. Market choice is not cheap. While that may sound like a timeless left-wing credo, it's also a simple assessment of Australia's 20 years of privatisation and market-oriented restructure of electricity supply.
Outside small left-wing dissident circles (from Keynesians to Marxists), operating the power industry according to market principles has become an unquestioned and unspoken assumption.
The following resolution was adopted by the Socialist Alliance national council meeting on June 10.
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鈥 If socialism is not just to be a good idea, it has to become a movement of the working class and other oppressed groups. It flows from this that to build the socialist movement we have to have a permanent focus on linking up with the activists and leaders of the working class and oppressed groups who are fighting capitalist oppression.
Representatives from the Environment Centre NT (ECNT) and the Amateur Fishermen鈥檚 Association of the NT (AFANT) travelled to Mataranka on June 13 to host a public meeting about water allocations in the region.
The Country Liberal Party government has made changes to the allocation process, which threatens the Roper River region鈥檚 environment, as well as pastoral and Indigenous interests.
The Victorian government continued its attack on civil rights last week with the announcement that new prison cells would be built at train stations for use by protective services officers (PSOs).
Moreland City Council has voted to accept an offer from the Victorian government to fund the installation of CCTV cameras on Sydney Road in Brunswick.
The offer was made following the rape and murder of Brunswick resident Jill Meagher in a side street near Sydney Road last year.
Three councillors voted against the decision: Socialist Alliance councillor Sue Bolton, and Greens councillors Samantha Ratnam and Lenka Thomson.
Like most sectors of society, the education system in Australia is under attack. For decades, education has been underfunded, so when Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced that she intended to fund the Gonski reforms, many people were temporarily relieved.
Then she said that, to pay for primary and high school education reforms, the government would cut funding to universities. Private schools won鈥檛 lose funding and, in some cases, will get more. Yet the ailing TAFE system would get nothing.
So much for an education revolution.
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