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Green Left Weekly issue #770, 15 October 2008
Write On: Letters to the Editor

LETTERS Abortion law: `We won't go back to the backyards!'

RESISTANCE! The following article is based on a speech Resistance member Kimberly Yu gave to an October 4 rally in Melbourne. » Who's Australia's worst environment minister?

RESISTANCE! On September 15, Resistance kicked off our competition to determine who is Australia’s worst environment minister. Resistance members in Melbourne headed down to 50 Lonsdale Street to present Gavin Jennings, Victoria’s environment minister, with the illustrious award of Australia’s Worst Envir... » What role for socialists?

OUR COMMON CAUSE In the two years that have passed since the Socialist Alliance’s fifth national conference, the Australian political terrain has shifted a lot. » Methane study reveals serious new climate threat

Millions of tonnes of the potent greenhouse gas methane have apparently begun leaking from the seabed beneath wide areas of the Arctic Ocean, the British Independent reported on September 23. » From Clarrie O'Shea to the ABCC - the struggle for union rights

The campaign against the jailing of tramways union leader Clarrie O’Shea, in Melbourne in May 1969, for refusing to pay fines imposed under the infamous anti-union penal powers of the time is rich with lessons for today’s campaign against the Australian Building and Construction Commission’s (... » Sydney's transport crisis: build railways, not roads

There has been intense media speculation on the fate of New South Wales infrastructure plans following the “discovery” of a supposed $20 billion dollar “black hole” in the NSW budget, announced by departing treasurer Michael Costa on September 5. » Don't pay for a failed system

“Meltdown” is a word that one hears a lot on the news these days. » Banks are bastards

The Reserve Bank (RBA) of Australia announced on October 7 that they would cut the official interest rate by 1% — the largest single cut since 1992 — in response to the US financial crisis. »


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