The Rudd government has been rejecting asylum seeker claims at an extraordinary rate. A report by the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC), released on May 4, revealed that out of 42 ministerial decisions over five weeks, 41 appeals had been rejected 鈥 a 97.6% rejection rate.
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On April 27, around 300 residents gathered at Rozelle聮s Callan Park in the second Sunday protest against the NSW ALP government聮s bid to close the psychiatric hospital and redevelop the parklands.
According to a May 7 Prensa Latina report, the Ecuadorian government has denounced Colombia following the release of evidence that the Colombian military had executed four prisoners as part of its infamous March 1 assault on a camp of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) that was within Ecuadorian territory.
The Australian speaking tour of Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) leader Jorge Schafik Handal Vega began in Sydney on May 6, with a public meeting attended by 50 activists, most from the local El Salvadorean community.
While Mount Isa welfare organisations are alarmed about not being able to provide for the large influx of Aboriginal people who have fled the federal government鈥檚 Northern Territory intervention, the government is looking to expand this racist bipartisan policy.
Cuba: How the Workers & Peasants Made the Revolution
By Chris Slee
Resistance Books, 2008
55pages, $6.00(pb)
Available from <http://www.resistancebooks.com>
By Chris Slee
Resistance Books, 2008
55pages, $6.00(pb)
Available from <http://www.resistancebooks.com>
Five unions met in Brisbane on May 6 to launch a national campaign for the abolition of the Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC).
Below is an abridged May 7 statement from the Burma Partnership Secretariat.
In presenting the state budget on May 6, Premier John Brumby announced that 鈥渄oing business in Victoria will become even easier鈥. The ALP government鈥檚 pro-corporate measures will cut almost $1.5 billion from taxes and costs for the big end of town.
鈥淲hat the hell is happening in NSW鈥, interstate callers have been asking the Socialist Alliance national office in recent days. Many are former activists in NSW left politics, and remember with bitterness the days when 鈥淪ussex Street鈥 (headquarters of Unions NSW and the ALP administration) could be relied upon to stifle any protest movement threatening the stability of NSW Labor in government.
聯How many minutes to midnight, do you reckon it is?聰, asked a 麻豆传媒 Weekly buyer at a street stall last week.
Queensland Premier Anna Bligh and state mines and energy minister Geoff Wilson were on hand in early May to celebrate Rio Tinto聮s announcement that the company would double exports of coal from Queensland in the next seven years.
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