Headlines from GLW #714, 20 June 2007:

Indigenous owners reject radioactive waste dump

COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 15 June 2007

Since community opposition stopped plans for a national nuclear waste dump in South Australia, John Howard seems determined to now go for a site in the Northern Territory — despite promising not to and opposition from Indigenous custodians. »

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Police officer faces court over Mulrunji’s death

AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 15 June 2007

On June 12, the trial of Queensland police officer Chris Hurley on charges of assault and manslaughter began. Hurley is alleged to have punched and then unlawfully killed Aboriginal man Mulrunji on November 19, 2004, on Palm Island, an Indigenous community located near Townsville. »

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The battle for Bolivia’s future

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 15 June 2007

BOLIVIA: The breaking of a six-month deadlock in Bolivia’s constituent assembly has paved the way for the opening of an intense debate on the future of this politically polarised country nestled in the heart of South America. Beginning to lose the battle within the halls of the assembly, the right-wing opposition has threaten to take the fight onto the streets, announcing that it may reject any new constitution that emerges out of the body. »

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Dean Mighell: Workers need the right to strike

COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 16 June 2007

Electrical Trades Union Victorian secretary and union militant Dean Mighell was forced to resign from the ALP after a tape recording of an internal union meeting became public. Labor leader Kevin Rudd and his industrial relations spokesperson Julia Gillard slammed Mighell as a union “thug” for swearing about bosses and talking up a pattern-bargaining agreement in which ETU members received a particularly good deal. Green Left Weekly’s Sue Bolton spoke to Mighell about Labor under Rudd, its backflips on IR and how the unions can defend workers’ rights. »

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Destabilisation plot fails in Venezuela

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 14 June 2007

VENEZUELA: The latest campaign to destablise the government of socialist President Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, by groups who receive funds from the US government, appears to have largely failed. The attempts of a minority of students based on the old elite universities — who have held often violent protests in recent weeks — to present themselves as a “new” movement fighting for democracy have been exposed. »

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'No pulp mill!'

AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 16 June 2007

LAUNCESTON — On June 16, 11,000 people joined a rally organised by The Wilderness Society against Gunns’ proposed pulp mill in the West Tamar Valley. The crowd gathered at City Park and was addressed by Gardening Australia’s Peter Cundall, Geoff Law from TWS and Greens Senate candidate Andrew Wilkie, who condemned the plans to pollute the Tamar’s air and water with a kraft-chlorine pulp mill that will feed on Tasmania’s old-growth forests. Cundall warned Paul Lennon’s state Labor government and Gunns that “this is democracy in action” and “we are never going to stop fighting”. Protesters marched to Civic Square chanting “No pulp mill”. »

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South Africa: Sackings fuel national strike, protests

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 14 June 2007

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Nationalisations push Venezuela further toward socialism

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 15 June 2007

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Global warming and the NSW floods

COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 16 June 2007

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Pakistan: US double face on media freedom and democracy

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 15 June 2007

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Indonesia: 'The people want fundamental change'

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 14 June 2007

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Iraq: US officials plan post-Bush occupation

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 14 June 2007

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