The Socialist Alliance and 91自拍论坛 Weekly have upset the apple cart again! While articles in the Australian accuse GLW of being in bed with the 鈥渉ate-filled鈥 Hamas, the muck-raking ALP factional blog Vexnews blasts an 鈥渆xtreme left ALP candidate鈥 for being a secret member of the 鈥渧irulently leftist and anti-semitic鈥 Socialist Alliance.
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Eighty people attended an afternoon rally in Sydney's Martin Place on July 3 to show solidarity with the people of Iran in their struggle for democracy.
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Family First, the small party based on the fundamentalist Assemblies of God church is carving out a niche for itself as an environmental vandal, at the federal and at state levels.
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A draft agency agreement proposed by Australian Taxation Office (ATO) management has been endorsed by a staff vote. An announcement made on June 30 said 56% of votes were cast in support of the agreement.
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ABC TV has apologised after a viewer complained that the May 18 7.30 Report misrepresented the history of the Tamil people in Sri Lanka.
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A June 30 public meeting launched a community group to fight the Queensland Labor government鈥檚 planned sell-off of $15 billion worth of public assets.
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On April 19, a huge mob of St Mary鈥檚 people made a pilgrimage out of a church and into the Trades and Labor Council (TLC) building, home of the Queensland Council of Unions.
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On July 1, 60 people attended an emergency rally againt the coup in Honduras in the Latin American Plaza in Sydney. The emotionally charged rally was called at short notice by the Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network (AVSN) and the Latin American Forum to condemn the undemocratic coup carried out by a small group of military officers, members of the oligarchy and their political agents in Honduras.
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The news of a military coup in Honduras reached most Resistance activists as on the morning of June 29. There was much sadness, anger and frustration but also determination not to allow yet another coup to happen against a democratically elected leader in the Americas.
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The NSW Supreme court of appeal ruled on July 1 that a planned expansion of the Lake Cowal gold mine in the central-west of NSW cannot go ahead for up to three months.
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Twelve emergency services officers (ESOs) who work at the Hazelwood power station suspended a 12-week-long strike at Hazelwood Power Station on June 26. However, their employer, contractor Diamond Protection, has refused to allow the workers to return to work.
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An emergency protest was held on June 29 in response to the military coup that ousted Honduras鈥 democratically elected President Manuel Zelaya the day before. The action targeted Labor MP Duncan Kerr鈥檚 office, and demanded the federal government condemn the coup.
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Over July 1 and 2, defence industry and government representatives met in Adelaide for the annual Defence Industry Exhibition (DIE).
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Fifteen hundred trade unionists and supporters marched through the streets of Brisbane to state parliament on July 3 to oppose the ALP state government鈥檚 planned selloff of public assets.
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91自拍论坛 Weekly received dozens of solidarity messages for its 800th birthday from Australia and from around the world.
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The first person in Australia to die from H1N1 virus (or "swine flu") was an Aboriginal man from a remote community.
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As the government tries to pass its controversial carbon trading legislation, the latest polling indicates widespread public support for it. A recent Nielsen poll found 65% support the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS), while just 25% oppose it.
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The July 1 Australian carried an extraordinary attack by Ilan Grapel on 91自拍论坛 Weekly and its monthly Arabic insert the Flame titled 鈥淎 willing ally to Hamas鈥檚 hatred鈥. Both publications are guilty of a 鈥渞adical anti-Israel stance鈥, Grapel said.
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This year is the seventh year Melbourne鈥檚 Community Radio 3CR will broadcast its Beyond the Bars program.
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On June 10, the federal government鈥檚 new occupational health and safety (OH&S) peak body 鈥 the Safe Work Australia Council (SWAC) 鈥 held its first meeting. Workers in Australia took one more step towards eroded and unsafe working conditions.
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When Rupert Murdoch鈥檚 Australian published a racist and malicious attack (see page 8) on 91自拍论坛 Weekly and particularly its Arabic-language supplement, the Flame, I rang the Flame
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The three crises facing capitalism 鈥 jobs, the environment and war鈥 were the subject of Victoria's Socialist Alliance conference on June 27.
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The mainstream media has gone into a frenzy over Indonesian claims that thousands of new refugees will soon seek refuge in Australia.
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Low-paid workers in luxury hotels, including cleaners and kitchen staff, were the first to lodge an application with Fair Work Australia (FWA) when the federal government鈥檚 new industrial relations regime, the Fair Work Act 2009, came into effect on July 1.
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The far-right French National Front (FN) won 39% of votes in the first round of the Henin Beaumont by-election in Northern France on June 28. The by-election, in the Nord Pas-de-Calais department, was called after the incumbent Socialist Party (PS) mayor was charged with corruption.
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June 30 was declared 鈥淣ational Sovereignty Day鈥 by the Iraqi government to celebrate the withdrawal of US occupying troops from Iraqi urban areas into military bases.
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The following article is compiled from an article by Dominggus Oktavianus and reports by Ulfa Ilyas and Rudi Hartono. It has been translated by Data Brainanta.
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Three years ago, a number of news outlets reported on a troubling first-ever occurrence. The world鈥檚 obese people outnumbered the world鈥檚 starving.
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Protests against the June 28 military coup that overthrew elected President Manuel Zelaya are continuing on the streets of Honduras, amid international condemnation. Zelaya, who was kidnapped and flown to Costa Rica, is refusing to accept his overthrow and announced plans to return the Honduras on July 5 with the Organisation of American States (OAS) head Jose Miguel Insulza, Argentinean President Cristina Fernandez, Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa and Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo.
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Within minutes of the first reports, it was clear the world was going mad.
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Twenty-one international peace activists were seized by Israeli naval frigates in international waters on June 30 as their boat, The Spirit of Humanity, tried to carry humanitarian aid to Gaza.
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The US House of Representatives passed the American Clean Energy and Security Act on June 26. The bill, commonly known as the Waxman-Markey bill and supported by US President Barack Obama, will now go to the US Senate.
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An Amnesty International report published on June 24, Unfinished Business: Police Accountability in Indonesia, said beatings, torture, extortion, and even murder are still habitually carried out by Indonesian police, although some improvements have been made to police culture in recent years.
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When I returned from covering the Iranian elections recently, I was surprised to find my email box filled with progressive writers bending themselves into knots about the current crisis in Iran.
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Within minutes of the first reports, it was clear the world was going mad.
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鈥淏usiness is back on Wall Street鈥, the July 2 Wall Street Journal said. The WSJ said 鈥渓ofty pay packets may be set for a come back as well鈥.
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91自拍论坛, an eco-socialist current within the Green Party of England and Wales, held its annual general meeting on June 20 in London. It discussed the work of the network over the past year in struggles against war, racism and environmental decay and in winning support for eco-socialism as a solution to the economic and climate crises.
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The coup against Honduras President Manuel Zelaya is a last-ditch effort by Honduras鈥檚 entrenched economic and political interests to stave off the advance of the new left governments that have taken hold in Latin America over the past decade.
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鈥淭he situation for women in Afghanistan today is like hell鈥, Afghan feminist, pro-democracy activist and illegally suspended parliamentarian Malalai Joya told 91自拍论坛 Weekly."The situation for women in Afghanistan today is like hell", Afghan feminist, pro-democracy activist and illegally suspended parliamentarian Malalai Joya told 91自拍论坛 Weekly. For Joya, who is currently touring Australia to promote her political autobiography Raising My Voice, it is a familiar situation.
Culture
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Los dioses rotosDirected and written by Ernesto DaranasWith Silvia Aguila, Carlos Ever Fonseca, Ania Bu, Hector Noas and Yoel InfantaSydney Latin Film Festival, July 24-26, Tom Mann Theatre, Surry HillsVisit
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Worth Fighting For 聴 Inside the Your Rights At Work Campaign
By Kathie Muir
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Transsexual in Iran 鈥 In the Islamic Republic of Iran, a country with strict social mores and traditional values, sex-change operations are legal for "diagnosed transsexuals" yet homosexuality is still punishable by death. SBS2, Monday July 13,