Remember the 鈥渨ealth effect鈥? Rapidly rising housing and share prices made people feel wealthy and so they borrowed big-time and became big-time spenders, and this supposedly makes for an endless economic boom. Just about every capitalist economist was singing from that cheery song sheet 鈥 until recently.
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Refugee activists have welcomed the July 29 announcement by federal immigration minister Chris Evans to significantly dismantle Australia鈥檚 policy of mandatorily detaining refugees. They noted, however, that while the changes represent an important victory for the movement for refugee rights, the struggle is not yet over.
From the first day it appeared online, the masthead of the Climate and Capitalism blog has carried the slogan 聯Ecosocialism or Barbarism: there is no third way聰.
On September 28, the people of Ecuador will be asked to vote on a new constitution, drafted over the past eight months by an elected constituent assembly.
Howes doesn't speak for me
I am an Australian Workers Union member and totally disagree with Howes' article "Give workers a voice in climate change solutions" in the July 24 Age, where he advocates free emissions trading permits for individual
Former PM John Howard鈥檚 blandly named Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC) remains under PM Kevin Rudd. It is prosecuting Victorian vice-president of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU), Noel Washington, who faces six months鈥 jail for not answering questions about a union meeting.
While some, including US presidential hopeful Barack Obama and the Australian government of PM Kevin Rudd, attempt to present the US-led occupation of Afghanistan as a 聯good war聰 counterposed to the disastrous occupation of Iraq 聴 seen as a distraction from the 聯war on terrorism聰 聴 the bloodshed and repression in the service of the US-installed warlords in Kabul continues.
Colombia is a 鈥渘arco-state that applies and puts into practice state terrorism that affects the region鈥, insisted Nicaragua鈥檚 ambassador to the Organisation of American States (OAS), Denis Moncada, on July 24.
If you only read the mainstream media, you would think that Venezuela is run by a dictator who suppresses democracy and violates human rights. But the opposite is true.
Millions of Australian workers have faced the worst losses in their superannuation since 1992. Super funds have shown losses of on average 6.4% for the last financial year, with some showing losses as high as 15%, putting workers聮 retirement funds in jeopardy.
His hair has grown, his voice sounds a little deeper and his wounds appear to have healed somewhat. But what isn聮t clear from the first ever Guantanamo Bay interrogation video to be released for public consumption is that Omar Khadr is blind in one eye.
The truck drivers鈥 national transport shutdown came to an end on July 30, with the Transport Workers Union (TWU) failing to endorse the action and calling on frustrated drivers to instead lobby the federal government.
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