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GLW #743 carried a front cover headline "End Gaza Holocaust", to which I object. There is no justification, factually or ethically, to abuse the memory of the victims of Nazi genocide by describing Israel's actions as a holocaust. This
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Global warming, General Motors vice-chairperson of global product development Robert A. Lutz told reporters in a closed-door meeting in January, is a total crock of shit. Within hours the remark was reported on the internet, and spread, as Lutz subsequently lamented, like ragweed.
It is not an overstatement that the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela is a shining beacon of hope for struggling masses around the world.
Federal parliament passed the Workplace Relations Amendment (Transition to Forward with Fairness Bill) on March 19. The bill which the corporate media falsely claims has brought an end to Australian Workplace Agreements (AWAs) became law on March 28.
It was lunchtime in one of Haitis worst slums, and Charlene Dumas was eating mud. With food prices rising, Haitis poorest cant afford even a daily plate of rice, and some take desperate measures to fill their bellies. Charlene, 16 with a 1-month-old son, has come to rely on a traditional Haitian remedy for hunger pangs: cookies made of dried yellow dirt from the countrys central plateau.
The WA Aboriginal Rights Coalition (ARC) has demanded that the state government allocate adequate resources to the Aboriginal Legal Service (ALS) to deal with the thousands of compensation claims from members of the Stolen Generations.
When the outside world thinks about Australia, it generally turns to venerable cliches of innocence — cricket, leaping marsupials, endless sunshine, no worries. Australian governments actively encourage this. Witness the recent “G’day USA” campaign, in which Kylie Minogue and Nicole Kidman sought to persuade people in the US that, unlike the empire’s problematic outposts, a gormless greeting awaited them Down Under. After all, George Bush had ordained the previous Australian prime minister, John Howard, “sheriff of Asia”.
Fifty people gathered outside of the Crown Casino on March 18 to protest Prime Minister Kevin Rudds support of a gala dinner of the United Israel Appeal Refugee Relief Fund (UIA), a Zionist organisation.
On March 13 the Victorian Legislative Assembly passed a bill to establish a relationships register, which will allow couples, regardless of gender, to be formally recognised under Victorian law. However, concerns have been raised that the proposals contain a number of serious shortcomings.
The Tullamarine toxic waste dump is likely to be closed permanently after the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) announced that from February 18 no more waste would be accepted at the site, pending an inquiry.
On February 26, Forestry Tasmania, the state-government-run corporation that manages Tasmanias forests, revealed that it had signed a 20-year deal to supply wood to Gunns Limiteds proposed Tamar Valley pulp mill.
On March 20, a 40-strong community picket blocked trucks from entering the Coburg plant of Visy Industries, the world’s largest packaging and recycling company. The picket was to protest the sacking of George Kyridis, a member of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) Visy is owned by the Pratt family and employs about 8000 people in Australia, New Zealand and North America.
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