Headlines from GLW #802, 15 July 2009:

Refugee policy risks more lives

COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 11 July 2009

AUSTRALIA: A boat carrying 74 asylum seekers disappeared en route to Australia near the Komodo island in Indonesia last week. The boat was believed to have women and children on board and had vanished — feared to have sunk — when the Australian Federal Police was notified by a refugee rights advocate, Ian Rintoul, on July 7. »

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Democracy for Honduras — restore Zelaya!

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 11 July 2009

Glued to the television, myself and my partner watched the entire July 5 showdown in the Central American nation Honduras play out from Caracas. »

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Leaked documents reveal Macklin’s deceit

COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 11 July 2009

AUSTRALIA: Indigenous Affairs minister Jenny Macklin was advised by her department against formally consulting with Aboriginal people over the compulsory acquisition of their land because it would be too expensive, tie up too many resources, and was unlikely to get the outcome the government wanted, leaked documents reveal. »

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Iranian eyewitness: ‘The people are angry’

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 11 July 2009

Nazy (a pseudonym) is an activist with the Voice of Freedom and Democracy in Iran, which organised a protest outside the Iranian Embassy on July 9. She came to Australia on July 6 after attending the pro-democracy protests in Tehran that were organised in response to the Iranian regime’s repression of the mass demonstrations alleging vote-rigging in the June 12 presidential elections. »

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Coal workers, public ownership and a just transition

COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 11 July 2009

AUSTRALIA: >Graham Brown is a retired coalminer and climate change activist. He’s also a member of the Upper Hunter Greens in NSW, and is helping build a union and community alliance aimed at creating a “just transition” to a carbon-neutral economy. Such a transition would ensure workers in the coal industry move into alternative employment. Green Left Weekly’s Zane Alcorn spoke to Brown, and this is the first of three parts of the interview. »

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WIN’s win means job losses

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School closures by stealth

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