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Green Left Weekly issue #764, 27 August 2008
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LETTERS, AUSTRALIA Neither Labor nor Liberal deserve to run WA

OUR COMMON CAUSE, AUSTRALIA The following is based on the Socialist Alliance’s campaign leaflet for the September 6 Western Australian election. » The vampire bleeding Australian cities

The social impact of increasing petrol prices and mortgage costs, and persistent inflation, continues to deepen. The financial pressure on lower-income households across Australia has massively increased, according to Jago Dodson and Neil Sipe in their study Unsettling Suburbia: The New Landscape of... » A younger, greener council for Newcastle

AUSTRALIA When you see the line-up of candidates running for Newcastle council in the September 13 elections, you notice the average demographic is seriously out of whack with that of the region. » Public transport: make it frequent, make it free

AUSTRALIA On July 28, the Sydney Morning Herald revealed internal state government documents stating that even if prices for petrol, parking and road tolls increased massively, Sydney’s car use would still climb beyond NSW government targets by 2016. » Bonded labour? Pacific `guest worker’ scheme

AUSTRALIA This month the federal Labor government announced a pilot seasonal worker scheme in the horticulture industry. Under the trial, up to 2500 visas will be available over three years for workers from Kiribati, Tonga, Vanuatu and Papua New Guinea to work in Australia for up to seven out of any 12 months... » Abortion debate heats up in Victoria

The act of a doctor performing an abortion in Victoria has been listed as a crime in the Crimes Act since 1958. » Issy Wyner, 1916-2008

AUSTRALIA When a teacher at Fort Street High School recommended that students read the economist John Maynard Keynes, the school boy Isadore Wyner suggested Karl Marx. Young Issy was reprimanded. This did not stop him from engaging with the world for another eight decades. » NSW community housing tenants pay for cuts

AUSTRALIA Low-income tenants in community housing will face greater hardship following a recent NSW government policy decision that means tenants will lose their rent assistance. » Remembrance Day to be marked by arms fair

AUSTRALIA November 11 is Remembrance Day, marked each year to commemorate those who have died in war. »


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