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Green Left Weekly issue #766, 10 September 2008
Write On: Letters to the editor

LETTERS, AUSTRALIA ‘We demand a reason for hope’

RESISTANCE!, AUSTRALIA The federal government’s climate adviser, Professor Ross Garnaut, told the National Press Club on September 5 that while climate change is “diabolical”, “intractable” and “daunting”, Australia is a “special case” and cannot be expected to cut greenhouse gas emissions to the same ex... » Good health care and ‘parental rights’

RESISTANCE!, AUSTRALIA The prescription of oral contraceptives to a 14-year-old without her parents’ knowledge has triggered a debate over adolescents’ access to confidential health care. The student of Bellarine Secondary College in Victoria was taken by a school nurse to a doctor, who prescribed the medication... » Venezuelan youth: `Our future depends on us'

RESISTANCE!, AUSTRALIA Young people “are the present … whether we have a future or not depends on what we as young people do or don’t do”, proclaimed student leader and minister for the presidency, Hector Rodriguez, speaking on August 22 to thousands of members of the youth organisation of the United Socialist Par... » Full decriminalisation of abortion NOW!

OUR COMMON CAUSE, AUSTRALIA Although it is one of the most commonly performed medical procedures in the world, abortion is still a crime in Victoria under the 1958 Victorian Crimes Act. Women have only been able to access abortion because in 1969 Justice Menhennitt ruled that a doctor could perform an abortion if continuing a ... » The killing business: Australia and the arms trade

AUSTRALIA On the 90th anniversary of Armistice Day this November, Adelaide was due to play host to the largest military corporations in the world, who would be displaying the most sophisticated weapons that have ever been created. The planned fair was cancelled on September 7 by the South Australian governmen... » Public education: Rudd continues Howard’s attacks

AUSTRALIA In the lead-up to last year’s federal election, the then-Labor opposition worked furiously to narrow the policy difference between itself and the Howard government. » ‘I have been fighting for my beliefs for 52 years’

AUSTRALIA Soubhi Iskander is a candidate in the September 13 Blacktown City Council elections. He is standing on a Socialist Alliance ticket, which includes fellow Sudanese activist Hassan Elnour Abaid and queer rights activist Rachel Evans. » A new democratic vision for NSW

AUSTRALIA Green Left Weekly’s Chris Williams spoke to Graham Larcombe, secretary of Wollongong Against Corruption, about the process underway in Wollongong to develop a new, democratic vision of local democracy. »


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