Resistance members set up an Israeli military checkpoint outside Flinders Street train station to call on the state government to not renew Connexs contract to run Melbournes train system.
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As the world economy spirals down into its deepest crisis since the great depression, the writings of Karl Marx have made a return to the top seller lists in bookstores. In his native Germany, the sales of Marx’s works have trebled.
The key United Nations report used as the basis for climate change policies in many countries, including Australia, seriously underestimated the dangers of global warming, one of its leading compilers has warned.
The Last Albatross
By Ian Irvine
Simon & Schuster, 2008
383pages, $29.95
By Ian Irvine
Simon & Schuster, 2008
383pages, $29.95
Warrick Jordan is a member of the Huon Valley Environment Centre in Tasmania and is one of the Triabunna 13 (13 forest activists being sued by logging giant Gunns' Ltd). Jordan spoke to Green Left Weekly’s Susan Austin about his activities and the relationship between forests and climate change.
On February 13, Australian troops killed five children and injured at least two other adult civilians in a night-time “operation” in Afghanistan’s southern Oruzgan province.
Five children were shot dead by Australian troops on February 12, near the village of Sarmorghab in Oruzgan province.
Federal Labor’s proposed internet filtering policy is an attack on freedom of speech and needs to be stopped.
Looking back at the growth of the climate movement, it is clear we have made significant progress.
The health of Zimbabwean human rights activist Jestina Mukoko has deteriorated as she enters her third month in jail.
The National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission (NHHRC) was set up a year ago to review the Australian health system. Prime Minister Kevin Rudds pre-election promise to end the blame game between Canberra and the states when it comes to health and hospitals merely registered the obvious fact that the hospital system is in crisis.
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