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Headlines from GLW #781, 4 February 2009:


Welfare quarantining and NT town camps
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 4 February 2009
In December 2008, Green Left Weekly’s Emma Murphy and Peter Robson spoke to William Tilmouth about mandatory welfare quarantining — a feature of the federal government’s Northern Territory intervention — and its impacts on the Aboriginal town camps in Alice Springs. Tilmouth is the executive director of Tangentyere Council, the umbrella service delivery agency for the town camp Aboriginal housing associations. »

Traditional owner: don’t mine our land
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 4 February 2009
A multinational mining company that has been exposed for leaking uranium into Lake Ontario in North America is now exploring uranium deposits only a few kilometres from a significant Alice Springs water supply. »

Israel fails to stop Palestine’s struggle for freedom
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 30 January 2009
“What truce are they talking about. We work on the land just like farmers. We don’t have bombs. These people don’t want to make any truce”, Khalil Mohamed Breaim told Al Jazeera on January 28. »

Sri Lanka: A war on Tamils
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 30 January 2009
The “war” that is going on in Sri Lanka is a liberation struggle of the Tamil people for their right to self-determination, which would enable them to exist with equality, dignity and safety in the area of historical habitation of the Tamil people — the north and the east of Sri Lanka. »

Capitalism’s burning house
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 30 January 2009
John Bellamy Foster is editor of US socialist publication Monthly Review, professor of sociology at the University of Oregon and author of a number of books including Marx’s Ecology. This interview with him on the economic crisis is republished with permission from WIN magazine, the journal of the US-based War Resisters League (http://warresisters.org/win). »


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Other Headlines


Government deserts unemployed, poor
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 4 February 2009
On January 27, a day before heading off to the exclusive Swiss ski-resort of Davos for the World Economic Forum, deputy PM Julia Gillard met with representatives of charities and social service providers to discuss improving government support for the unemployed. »

Climate crisis, socialist solutions
OUR COMMON CAUSE, 4 February 2009
Most Australians now realise that everyone — governments, industry, workers and consumers — must work to stop the rapid increases in greenhouse gas emissions and to reduce existing levels in the atmosphere. »

International socialist conference coming to Sydney
AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 31 January 2009
International interest and participation is growing rapidly in what will be the most important gathering of activists to discuss socialist solutions to capitalism’s crisis in Australia this year. »

Bolivia: Celebrations as constitution passed
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 30 January 2009
After Bolivia’s new constitution that greatly expands rights for the indigenous majority was passed in a national referendum on January 25, thousands gathered in La Paz to celebrate. »

Nepalese Maoists gear-up to take to the streets
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 30 January 2009

Iceland: Protests bring down government
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 30 January 2009

Venezuela: Popular mobilisation for “yes” vote
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 30 January 2009

Venezuela: 10 years of change
AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 31 January 2009

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