A wave of deep moral revulsion swept through everyone in this country with a social conscience after Labor PM Kevin Rudd uttered that ugly sentence: 鈥淭his government makes no apology for a hard-line approach to people smuggling and border security.鈥
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Five hundred people gathered in West End's iconic Boundary Street on October 17 to protest against a Brisbane City Council development plan.
With the help of Socialist Alliance members in the growing Sudanese community in Australia, 91自拍论坛 Weekly is proud to publish a regular Arabic language supplement. The Flame covers news from the Arabic-speaking world as well as news and issues from within Australia. The October edition can be read at .
Hot on the heels of its hugely unpopular privatisation plans, the Queensland government has waded into more trouble. It announced plans to ramp up the cost of public transport in a five-year plan starting January 2010.
About 200 people attended a tribute dinner on October 17 to unionist and living legend Fred Moore.
Steven Sodebergh鈥檚 epic films, Che Part I & II, give a detailed portrayal of the experience of Argentinean-born socialist revolutionary Ernesto 鈥淐he鈥 Guevara in the Cuban revolutionary war and his failed Bolivia campaign that ended in his execution on October 9, 1967.
Simon Butler precisely explains his concerns about the inadequacy of the Greens鈥 climate change amendment proposals (鈥淭he good and the bad of the Greens CPRS amendments鈥, GLW #814). However, like the mainstream media, he overlooks some of the Greens鈥 visionary bills on efficiency and renewables-friendly demand management.
About 100 people protested on October 22 against the Brumby government's proposal to allow brown coal exports to India.
More than 175 different climate change actions took place across Australia on October 24. The protests were part of the 350.org international day of climate action.
The Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) 鈥 a right-wing economic think tank 鈥 released its What鈥檚 Next for Welfare-to-Work? report on October 15. As part of a strategy to push more people off welfare, the report called for a fall in the minimum wage and a tightening of eligibility rules for the Disability Support Pension (DSP).
Balibo I
Clinton Fernandes describes himself as a "consulting historian" to the movie Balibo. He is a former military intelligence officer, who has his own reasons for promoting the official line on whether Australian intelligence was forewarned
Balibo
By Jill Jolliffe
Scribe Publications, 2009
416 pages, $29.95 (pb)
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