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Green Left Weekly issue #776, 26 November 2008
Write On: Letters to the editor

LETTERS Editorial: Rudd’s first year — style over substance

EDITORIAL The first 12 months of Kevin Rudd’s federal Labor government have proved to be a continuation of the conservative, pro-war and anti-environmental politics of the Howard years. » Defend our public transport system!

RESISTANCE! The following article is based on a talk given by Felix Donovan, a Year 10 Bulli High School student and Resistance member in Wollongong. Donovan was speaking at a November 15 rally outside transport minister David Campbell’s office, organised by Wollongong Public Transport Coalition. The rally... » The student housing crisis

RESISTANCE! Isn’t it great to be young? Isn’t it great to be a university student? » Redesigning child care: their public sector and ours

OUR COMMON CAUSE In periods of capitalist economic implosion, increased public spending and an enlarged role for the public sector becomes unavoidable, even for the most one-eyed of free marketeers. » Indigenous activist speaks: Outback communities and the nuclear industry

Jillian Marsh is a member of the Adnyamathanha community in the Flinders Ranges and active in the Australian Nuclear-Free Alliance. She recently traveled to Germany to receive the 2008 Nuclear-Free Future award, and is writing a thesis entitled A look at the approval of Beverley Mine and the ways th... » Noel Washington: Defend unions, abolish the ABCC

Noel Washington is a senior vice-president of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) in Victoria. He has been a union organiser for 27 years. On December 2, simply for doing his job well, he faces a possible jail sentence under laws supported by the federal Labor government. » Climate change movement: Involve, educate, empower

Leigh Hughes, an activist in the socialist youth organisation Resistance and the Socialist Alliance, as well a member of the Australian Student Environment Network, recently won the ACT Conservation Council’s “Leading Light” award for the most outstanding environmental effort of an individual ... » Labor, Liberal candidates unite against Greens

The Greens are fielding almost 100 candidates across Victoria in local council elections on November 29. There will be Greens candidates in almost every ward. » Oil giants talk tax to kill environment

Evidence is mounting of a coordinated global oil industry effort to seize upon the international economic crisis as an opportunity to “rebel” against ecological controls and bludgeon concessions out of governments. » Public sector workers debate fightback

Postal balloting for national elections in the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) began on November 19 and will continue until December 10. » SKA TV turns 20

SKA TV has been around for 20 years as an alternative voice to mainstream television. We started off running guerrilla transmissions before there was such a thing as community television and along the way we created, along with four other guerrilla TV transmitter groups, Channel 31. » The coal industry's latest greenwashing campaign

The Australian Coal Association (ACA) has launched a new website () and advertising campaign aimed at convincing us that coal producers are not filthy carbon merchants profiting from the most emissions-intensive fossil fuel available, but can be modernised and cleaned up using “low-emissions co... »


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