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Headlines from GLW #771, 22 October 2008:


NT intervention: `We have only just begun to fight'
AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 17 October 2008
AUSTRALIA: An independent review into the Northern Territory Emergency Response (NTER), or NT intervention, has been accused of being “watered down” before its final release in order to not embarrass the federal Labor government. »

Rudd's $10.4 billion bonus for big business
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 17 October 2008
AUSTRALIA: “This strategy is designed to help pensioners, carers and families, and first home buyers”, declared Australia’s Labor Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in his October 14 address to the nation. Rudd was announcing a $10.4 billion “economic security strategy” in response to the global financial crisis. »

The Latin American alternative: a new financial system
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 17 October 2008
As stock markets crashed and a global credit squeeze threatened global economies, Latin American governments pushed ahead with plans for a new financial architecture, to replace the current bankrupt system. »

Police admit lying during Palm Island trial
AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 17 October 2008
AUSTRALIA: A police officer who is a key witness against Palm Island Aboriginal resident Lex Wotton has admitted at the trial that he lied during a previous investigation into senior sergeant Chris Hurley. »

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Other Headlines


Refounding Bolivia: struggle for the new constitution
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 17 October 2008
Bolivian President Evo Morales has called for a national referendum on the country’s new draft constitution on December 7. »

Cuban Five case exposes US hypocrisy
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 18 October 2008
The case of the Cuban Five, five Cubans who have spent the past 10 years in US jails for the undercover gathering of intelligence on terrorism against their country, provides further evidence of the hypocrisy of US rhetoric about fighting terrorism and supporting human rights. »

Abolish the ABCC: Wilcox fudges the issue
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 18 October 2008
Former federal court chief justice Murray Wilcox has been commissioned by deputy PM Julia Gillard to prepare a review of the powers of the Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC) and its integration as a specialist division into Labor’s proposed industrial relations umbrella, Fair Work Australia (FWA), in 2010. »

A tipping point for the climate action movement
AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 18 October 2008

Milk scandal: capitalism threatens babies
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 17 October 2008

NZ McDonald’s workers strike for wages, fair trade coffee
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 18 October 2008

France: New Anticapitalist Party gains momentum
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 18 October 2008

France: For a left that stops making excuses
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 18 October 2008

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