Headlines from GLW #715, 27 June 2007:

Howard takes total control of Aboriginal destiny

COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 22 June 2007

Prime Minister John Howard announced on June 21 a plan to take control of some 60 Indigenous communities in the Northern Territory, supposedly to tackle a child sex abuse crisis in those communities. It is a plan that severely limits and in some instances eradicates the democratic and land rights of all Aboriginal people in remote NT communities. »

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US, Israel fan Fatah-Hamas conflict

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 22 June 2007

PALESTINE: Addressing Palestinians for the first time since he declared a state of emergency a week earlier, in a nationallly televised speech on June 21, Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas denounced Hamas’ leaders as “murderous terrorists” who had carried out a “coup” in the Gaza Strip. »

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Queensland campaign for Indigenous rights to continue

AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 23 June 2007

The Queensland Police Union (QPU) has launched a series of radio advertisements that accuse the state Labor government of political interference in the case of Senior Sergeant Chris Hurley. A jury returned a verdict of not guilty for Hurley on June 20 in the Townsville Supreme Court. Hurley had been charged with the assault and manslaughter of Mulrunji Doomadgee, a 36-year-old aboriginal man, at the Palm Island police watch-house in November 2004. »

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Bolivia: The clash of autonomies

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 22 June 2007

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Rudd's union bashing hits a McDonald rock

COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 22 June 2007

West Australian union official Joe McDonald has rejected calls by Labor leader Kevin Rudd for him to leave the ALP. He insists he will fight moves by the party’s national executive to have him expelled, setting the stage for an important showdown. »

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Habib torture: what Canberra knew

COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 22 June 2007

The June 11 edition of ABC TV’s Four Corners confirmed what Australian former Guantanamo Bay detainee Mamdouh Habib has claimed since his January 2005 release without charge: that the Australian authorities were complicit in his abduction and torture. »

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Ali Humayun threatened with deportation

AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 23 June 2007

Ali Humayun, a Pakistani gay asylum seeker who has in the Villawood immigration detention centre for more than two years, has been told he could be deported without warning. »

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Pakistan: fifteen days in jail

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 21 June 2007

PAKISTAN: On June 19, Labour Party Pakistan (LPP) general secretary Farooq Tariq was released from jail after being detained for 15 days by the Punjab government. His arrest was part of a crackdown on political activists following an escalation in Pakistan’s pro-democracy movement after President Pervez Musharraf’s decision to suspend Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry on March 9. Tariq, who is demanding a judicial inquiry into the detentions, will be a guest speaker at the Latin America and Asia Pacific International Solidarity Forum in Melbourne on October 11-14. The following is abridged from a statement issued by Tariq after his release. »

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Cuba: Vilma Espin - revolutionary hero

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 21 June 2007

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'Any outspoken person could be jailed'

COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 22 June 2007

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read »International News

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Bolivia: The clash of autonomies

China: E-waste and environmental co...

China: Riots win concessions

Cuba: 'Long live Vilma!'

Cuba: Vilma Espin - revolutionary h...

Indonesian activists harassed by mi...

Iraq: Police commandos implicated i...

Killing democracy in Palestine

Pakistan: fifteen days in jail

Reporters without integrity

Socialists debate Venezuela's revol...

US, Israel fan Fatah-Hamas conflict...

Brief: Aceh's peace threaten...

Brief: US veterans support A...

read »Comment & Analysis

'Any outspoken person could be jail...

A fair day's pay

A high price to pay

From penal colony to penal powers: ...

Habib torture: what Canberra knew

Howard takes total control of Abori...

Iemma plans an APEC police state

Is this as good as it gets?

Johnny Howard discovers ‘white...

Labor fails to criticise Telstra bo...

Labor needs zero tolerance for boss...

Police get more powers to mistreat ...

Rudd's union bashing hits a McDonal...

Teachers oppose performance pay

Time to cut union funding to ALP

Letters: Letters to the Edit...

Our Common Cause: Victoria p...

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Green Left Weekly’s $250,000 F...

read »Australian News

'War games a threat to the region'

Ali Humayun threatened with deporta...

Barry's 300 days for workers' right...

Call for more protests against Work...

Hawaii under US military occupation...

Long wait for abortion options

Making noise for Darfur

Mulhearn considers appeal

Queensland campaign for Indigenous ...

Brief: ‘Free the refugees�...

Brief: Case against anti-Che...

Brief: Labor rejects nurses'...

Brief: Rally against educati...

Brief: Same-sex marriage cam...

Brief: UWS moves to close Bl...

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Review: 1967 referendum in p...

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Review: Caribbean pirates of...

Review: Demanding a better d...

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