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Green Left Weekly issue #796, 27 May 2009
Write On: Letters to the Editor

LETTERS Homophobia is not funny

RESISTANCE!, AUSTRALIA After rugby league commentator and former player Matthew Johns gave an insincere and misdirected apology on The Footy Show on May 7 — preempting the ABC Four Corners program that named Johns as part of an alleged sexual assault in 2002 — Paul “Fatty” Vautin slapped him on the back and declar... » Why students should support teachers’ strikes

RESISTANCE!, AUSTRALIA Last week’s university staff strikes across Victoria were in response to decades of attacks on higher education. » Genocide in Sri Lanka while Australia looks on

OUR COMMON CAUSE, AUSTRALIA I am a Sinhalese from the majority community in Sri Lanka, not from the brutalised Tamil community. I have campaigned for five decades for the right of the Tamils to live with equality, dignity and safety in the country of their birth. » Rudd’s carbon trading — locking in disaster

AUSTRALIA Climate scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology released a disturbing new study on May 19. Without drastic action, the Earth’s surface temperature could rise by 5°C or more by 2100, they said. » Greens’ Fremantle win: Can the Greens challenge Labor?

AUSTRALIA The victory for Greens candidate Adele Carles in the May 16 by-election for the WA state seat of Fremantle is a breakthrough for the progressive movement and a testament to the Greens’ consistent efforts to raise a left alternative to Labor. » Aboriginal communities under new attack from ALP

AUSTRALIA Schools and clinics in many Aboriginal homelands and outstations are likely to close under proposed changes announced by the Northern Territory government on May 20. » Economic crisis may breed forced labour says ILO

AUSTRALIA There are still about 12.3 million people worldwide who work in some form of bonded or forced labour, according to a May 12 International Labour Organisation (ILO) report. » Health a loser in budget

AUSTRALIA Despite some new health spending on infrastructure and research, the recent budget failed to address the growing public health care crisis. » Is Rudd losing his shine?

AUSTRALIA Opinion polls in both the Fairfax and Murdoch dailies on May 18-19 show voter support for PM Kevin Rudd has fallen. Rudd, who scored a 74% approval rating in the Fairfax Nielsen poll on March 30, dropped 10 points in the May 18 poll, down to 64%. » NT intervention based on “big lie” says journalist

AUSTRALIA Prominent journalist Jeff McMullen questioned the Northern Territory intervention at a forum organised by Reconciliation for Western Sydney on May 20 in Wentworthville. » Queers fighting for marriage rights

AUSTRALIA Plans are underway for the fifth national day of action for same-sex marriage rights. Rallies are already planned in seven cities across Australia on August 1. » Tamil youth call for aid, homeland

AUSTRALIA When the United Nations describes the Sinhalese army’s attacks on the Tamil areas of Sri Lanka as a “bloodbath on the beach” you know a massacre is going on. » Unions settle West Gate Bridge dispute

AUSTRALIA A three month long industrial dispute at the West Gate Bridge strengthening project in Melbourne has ended. Unions and construction giant John Holland reached a settlement on May 15. »


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