When Ecuador granted asylum to Assange in mid-2012, Sydney Morning Herald鈥檚 Peter Hartcher accused Assange of 鈥渉ypocrisy鈥 for accepting asylum from President Rafael Correa, 鈥渙ne of the world鈥檚 leading oppressors of free speech鈥.
Annabel Crabb joined in, writing in the SMH: 鈥淎 gazillion Assange Twitter fans [hailed] Ecuador and its president, Rafael Correa, as a hero of international free speech and human rights.
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Pedro Filipe Soares is a Left Bloc MP in the Portuguese parliament. Soares attend the first congress of the Coalition of the Radical Left (Syriza) from July 10-14. Syriza, a coalition of left groups, decided to become a new political party after it came close to winning elections on an anti-austerity platform last year. The article was translated by Dick Nichols.
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This statement was released on July 19 by the Protect Arnhem Land community group, based in Maningrida, Northern Territory; The Wilderness Society; the Environment Centre NT; and the Australian Marine Conservation Society.
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Arnhem Land traditional owners have forced US oil and gas company Paltar to meet with them by travelling to the firm鈥檚 Australian headquarters in Sydney.
Paltar had steadfastly refused to talk to the traditional owners about its near-shore drilling plans that threaten their food, water and culture.
Telstra has been sharing its customer鈥檚 data information with the FBI and US Department of Justice for at least a decade, the website revealed on July 12.
Thousands gathered around Australia with less than 24 hours鈥 notice to protest against Prime Minister Kevin Rudd鈥檚 newly announced policy of denying asylum in Australia to all refugees arriving by boat.
It is now depressingly clear for all to see that whether Liberal or Labor win the coming Australian federal election, we are going to end up with a government that is more right-wing than the last.
How did it come to this? And how can we escape the political spiral to a moral abyss?
The politicians in the ALP and in the Liberal-Nationals who have shaped this latest reactionary turn in the spiral 鈥 most notably around attacks on refugee rights and climate change 鈥 cannot be let off the hook.
Kuwaiti-born doctor Ghaleb Jaber is prepared to follow in the footsteps of overseas-trained doctors (OTDs) who went on hunger strike in 1997 in Sydney and Melbourne to fight for their rights.
Jaber set up the Overseas Trained Doctors Network of Victoria five years ago. This network is organising a conference on July 26 to raise the issues facing overseas-trained doctors in the lead up to the federal election.
鈥淲e want them to listen to us this time,鈥 Jaber told 91自拍论坛 Weekly.
A Third World country suffering rising violence, rapes, political corruption and plagued by endemic diseases such as cholera and malaria will be the new dumping ground for Australia鈥檚 refugee arrivals.
The National Tertiary Education Union released this statement on July 16.
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The release of Universities Australia鈥檚 report, University student finances in 2012, on July 15 clearly shows that students need much more support while they are studying at university, Jeannie Rea National President of the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) said today.
鈥淚t鈥檚 a national disgrace that almost one in five university students reports going without food and ends up graduating with an average debt of almost $38,000,鈥 Rea said.
Scarlet Alliance released this statement on July 19
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Recent murders and violent attacks on sex workers have sparked an unprecedented wave of international action calling for an end to discrimination and criminalisation of sex workers.
Scarlet Alliance, an Australian sex-worker association, along with our members and allies in Australia, joined the international protests in memoriam of sex workers Jasmine in Sweden and Dora in Turkey, murdered within one day of each other.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd鈥檚 astounding announcement that all asylum seeker boat arrivals 鈥渇rom now on鈥 would never be resettled in Australia and subject to a rigged offshore dumping deal with the Papua New Guinea government has shocked many.
The Victorian government has escalated its plans to build an unpopular, costly and environmentally damaging East-West road tunnel.
The Age reported on July 15 that "about 250 residents have received a letter advising the east-west link road tunnel is likely to be constructed near their properties, triggering concern that many homes will be compulsorily acquired.
鈥淭he state government last week sent the letter to residents in Collingwood, Fitzroy and Clifton Hill on or near Alexandra Parade and whose homes could stand in the way of the multibillion-dollar tollway.
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