The global financial crisis is, again, showing up the savagery of the unfettered rule of the market. Governments are responding by increasing financial regulation, nationalising parts of the economy, and spending big on public infrastructure programs to pump-prime a stagnating capitalist economy. Not in NSW.
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Gone are the days when the local council dropped you a note in the mailbox, advising of its twice-yearly, free hard-rubbish collection.
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The NSW mini-budget on November 11 is a full-on assault on public services and the public ownership of major assets in NSW.
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We are all working harder through recycling to try to reduce the amount of garbage going wastefully to landfill.
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Beats are a toilet or park where men gather to have consensual, casual sex.
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Last week, Green Left Weekly published an article arguing that population reduction schemes provide no answers to the threat of climate change.
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The future of childcare services in Australia has been brought into question by the financial collapse of ABC Learning, the largest childcare provider in the country.
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Racism The recent sentencing of a man for inciting a riot on Palm Island to seven years imprisonment is in stark contrast to the acquitting of the arresting officer in the original case — in which the arrested man died — and the awarding of
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The following letter was sent to the ACT Greens from the Socialist Alliance on November 13.
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Green Left Weeklys Chris Williams interviewed Tim Dobson from the Wollongong Public Transport Coalition (WPTC).
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SYDNEY On November 10, a Sydney City Council ban on bill postering came into effect and was immediately defied.
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More than 200 people, including local residents, packed a community hall in Footscray on November 6 to protest vice-chancellor (VC) Liz Harman’s announcement that 270 Victoria University (VU) staff will face the chop, most before Christmas.