As part of the former Howard governments Northern Territory intervention, the Community Development Employment Program (CDEP) was abolished. The Howard government had planned to abolish it across other states on July 1 this year.
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Global warming, General Motors vice-chairperson of global product development Robert A. Lutz told reporters in a closed-door meeting in January, is a total crock of shit. Within hours the remark was reported on the internet, and spread, as Lutz subsequently lamented, like ragweed.
Message Stick: Talking Stick — Filmmakers discuss the Indigenous Unit at the Australian Film Commission. ABC, Friday April 4, 6pm.
Muddy Waters: Life and Death on the Great Barrier Reef — By 2030, half of the Great Barrier Reef may be gone.
Federal parliament passed the Workplace Relations Amendment (Transition to Forward with Fairness Bill) on March 19. The bill which the corporate media falsely claims has brought an end to Australian Workplace Agreements (AWAs) became law on March 28.
Channel Seven boss Kerry Stokess HRL Ltd and Chinas Harbin Power Engineering Company are to build a $750 million clean coal power station in the Latrobe Valley that, when operational from the end of 2009, will add significantly to Victorias greenhouse gas emissions.
In December 2006, when Kevin Rudd was elected leader of the federal Labor Party, he held a press conference about his personal values where he stated the obvious: I am not a socialist. I have never been a socialist and I never will be a socialist. His argument against socialism was basic it is a 19th-century arcane view.
Sickly and malnourished, Kirana Kapito began his working life on a large commercial tobacco estate in Malawi’s northern region. Such farms sell their produce on the country’s auction floors directly to international corporations, including Limbe Leaf Tobacco (majority-owned by the Swiss-registered Continental Tobacco Company), and US-based Alliance One Tobacco.
Cold Tea for Brandy A Tale of Protest, Painting & Politics
By Joan Coxsedge
Vulcan Press, 2007
$39.95 or $30 + postage from the author, (03) 9857 9249
By Joan Coxsedge
Vulcan Press, 2007
$39.95 or $30 + postage from the author, (03) 9857 9249
The European Commission is increasingly annoyed by its inability to foist unwanted, unnecessary and unsafe genetically modified crops onto European consumers and some member-state governments.
Percy Schmeisers decade-long legal odyssey has finally come to an end and hes got a cheque for [C]$660 to prove it, the March 20 Toronto Globe and Mail reported.
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