PM John Howards new intervention policy in the Northern Territory has begun with federal and state police storming into Indigenous communities.
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I completely agree with New Zealand Maori Party MP Hone Harawira that Prime Minister John Howard, by attacking marginalised Aboriginal communities, is a racist bastard, Aboriginal leader and Socialist Alliance Indigenous spokesperson Sam Watson said in response to Harawiras July 9 comments.
Weve tried to enter Palestine by land. Weve tried to arrive by air. Now were getting serious. Were taking a ship.
I am sure readers would agree that the real swindlers were exposed in the discussion after the much-watched screening of Martin Durkins Great Global Warming Swindle on ABC TV last week.
Some 80 people packed the Resistance Centre on July 1 for a Latin America solidarity conference organised by the Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network (AVSN), Australia Solidarity with Latin America (ASLA) and the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) committee.
PM John Howard and ALP leader Kevin Rudd have both attacked Unions NSW secretary John Robertson for comments, secretly recorded and leaked to the media, made at a Bennelong Your Rights at Work meeting in late June.
Nearly five months into a security strategy that involves thousands of additional US and Iraqi troops patrolling Baghdad, the number of unidentified bodies found on the streets of the capital was 41% higher in June than in January, according to unofficial health ministry statistics, the July 4 Washington Post reported.
Money for nothing
"The 11th annual study of 71 countries by investment bank Merrill Lynch and consultancy firm, Capgemini found that buoyant economic growth across the world pushed the riches of 'high net worth individuals' (HNWI) up by a hefty
Governments will only act when they are forced to by social movements, Dr Mark Diesendorf told around 150 people at the Queensland University of Technology on June 28. In the USA and Australia, these social movements around climate change are growing, and involving a broader sector of the community.
A report by the Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission (HREOC), launched on June 22, recommends that laws discriminating against gays be removed. The report comes at a time when record numbers of Australians are in favour of gay marriage.
The June 30 election has resulted in neither of the two main contenders the ruling party Fretilin and the recently formed CNRT (National Congress for Timorese Reconctruction) gaining an outright majority for a new parliament. Fretilin secured 29% of the vote, followed by CNRT with 24%. After the result was announced by the National Election Commission on July 9, a process of wrangling ensued within the East Timorese elite over how the government shall be composed and who shall lead it.
Arumugam Rajeevan, an Australian cirizen of Sri Lankan Tamil origin, was arrested in Sydney on July 10 on terrorism charges. This follows the May 1 arrest of two Tamils in Melbourne on similar charges.
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