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Editorial
Less than a year ago, it was widely held among mainstream economists that the world economy was doing fine, and that, in the face of any eventual problems, Australia would be secure.
Nothing like the inferno that swept across Victoria last weekend has ever occurred in Australia before.
As the traumatised people of Gaza mourn their dead and nurse their injured following Israel’s horrendous three-week massacre, another brutal genocide has unfolded in Sri Lanka.
The scientific evidence is conclusive. The delicate ecological balance of the planet is being destroyed.
The January 15 bombing with white phosphorous of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency that housed hundreds of refugees and humanitarian aid was not an isolated incident.
“An entire refugee family in one fell swoop was killed this morning as they took cover in their home, which took a direct hit from Israeli shells”, according to a diary direct from Palestine written by Laila El-Haddad and published on January 4 on Electronic Intifada.
There is no room for any doubt that Australia is suffering from an epidemic of domestic violence.
The first 12 months of Kevin Rudd’s federal Labor government have proved to be a continuation of the conservative, pro-war and anti-environmental politics of the Howard years.
After midnight on November 9, Imam Samudra, Amrozi Nurhasyim and Mukhlas Nurhasyim were executed by firing squad on the Indonesian prison island of Nusakambangan.
On May 1, International Workers Day, workers and unionists need to reflect on the greatest challenge facing humanity: global warming.
In a June 25 joint statement issued with his Australians All co-patron and former Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) chairperson Lowitja ODonoghue, former Coalition PM Malcolm Fraser attacked the Howard governments June 21 announcement that it was taking control of 60 Aboriginal communities in remote areas of the Northern Territory as a throwback to past paternalism.
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