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Green Left Weekly issue #800, 29 June 2009
Write on — letters to the editor

LETTERS, AUSTRALIA Militant unions save workers’ lives

EDITORIAL, AUSTRALIA Bosses do not provide safe and healthy workplaces for their workers out of the goodness of their hearts. Capitalism’s drive for short-term profits means workplace safety is a cost that can cut like any other. » 'We put this government on notice'

RESISTANCE!, AUSTRALIA This article is based on a speech by Ewan Saunders at the Brisbane Climate Emergency Rally on June 13. Saunders helped organise the event and co-chaired the rally. He is also a member of Resistance. » Earn, learn … or kill: a new policy for Australia’s youth

RESISTANCE!, AUSTRALIA When employment minister Julia Gillard declared that the onus was on young people to “earn or learn”, she forgot to mention the third option open to young Australians struggling to find a job — killing people. » The utes of politics

OUR COMMON CAUSE, AUSTRALIA Utes, the exchange and discussion thereof, could not be more Australian. Any Woza, Bluey or Macca will tell you that simply anything to do with utility vehicles is real men’s business. » Confronting the crisis: ’Yes we can!’

The following article is based on a speech by John Rice to the 1500-strong June 13 Adelaide Climate Emergency Rally. Rice is a member of the Climate Emergency Action Network (CLEAN) in South Australia. » A pig of a health-care system

AUSTRALIA The first person to die after testing positive to swine flu in Australia was a 26-year-old Aboriginal man from a remote desert community. Health workers have said it is evidence of the significant gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous health, and warn more deaths are likely. » Cuba’s green revolution

AUSTRALIA The ecological achievements of Cuba in the last two decades have been well documented. The collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s was the trigger for ending the unsustainable, industrial agriculture that Cuba had practised for decades. » Cities drowning in cars: what’s the alternative?

AUSTRALIA Australian cities are growing in population and in geographic spread. Urban sprawl, encouraged by governments at all levels, is pushing suburbia in all directions. » Carbon trading must die, so the planet can live

AUSTRALIA In his 2006 bestseller about climate change, Heat, British writer George Monbiot said his biggest worry was not that people would stop talking about climate change. His fear was that they’d talk us to kingdom come. » Connex bites the dust

AUSTRALIA There are few words that attract negative outbursts of emotions from Melbournians as much as the mere utterance of “Connex”. » Greens defeat league tables legislation

AUSTRALIA The threat of the publication of damaging school league tables in New South Wales has been averted for the moment. » Mulrunji inquest to re-open

AUSTRALIA The inquest into the death in custody of Palm Island man Mulrunji Doomadgee in November, 2004 will be reopened. In 2006, deputy state coroner Christine Clements found senior sergeant Chris Hurley was responsible for Doomadgee’s death. » Privatisation: state-wide campaign heats up

AUSTRALIA After Labor Premier Anna Bligh announced on June 2 that Queensland would be selling off $15.4 billion of the state’s assets, a June 17-18 Galaxy Poll conducted for the Brisbane Courier Mail found that 84% of people opposed the move. »


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