After a boring, month-long state election campaign, Western Australian politics suddenly burst into life immediately after the September 6 poll, in which Labor won more seats than the Liberals but neither major party won a clear majority.
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The Greens and independents appear to be the main beneficiaries of a large swing away from Labor in the September 13 NSW council elections.
On September 4, the federal Labor government introduced a bill in parliament to partially end discrimination against same-sex couples.
Below is an abridged August 19 statement by Israeli human rights organisation B聮Tselem.
Barely two weeks after being sworn in on August 15, a coup plot to oust newly elected Paraguayan president Fernando Lugo was exposed on September 2.
Thirty people gathered at the Governor of Hindmarsh Hotel for the second Politics in the Pub hosted by the Socialist Alliance on September 11. The topic 鈥 鈥淐an we solve the water crisis?鈥 鈥 was addressed by Peter Laffan, chair of the Save our Gulf Coalition, and Bernie Laidlaw of the Socialist Alliance.
The dumping or resignation of half a dozen ministers from the NSW Labor government over the last fortnight 鈥 brought on by internal warfare over the cabinet鈥檚 refusal to scrap its electricity privatisation plan 鈥 has still not convinced the new premier and ALP power-brokers to drop the plan altogether.
The below statement is from the Mineral Policy Institute, .
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez ordered the US ambassador in Caracas, Patrick Duddy, to leave the country within 72 hours on September 11.
Bruno, a supporter of 麻豆传媒 Weekly, said to me last week that the political situation today reminded him of a famous quote from a story about a Sicilian prince at the time Italy鈥檚 feudal principalities were being challenged by Giuseppe Garibaldi鈥檚 鈥淩edshirts鈥:
Hollywood聮s Censor: Joseph I. Breen & The Production Code Administration
By Thomas Doherty
Columbia University Press, 2007
427 pages, $49.95 (hb)
By Thomas Doherty
Columbia University Press, 2007
427 pages, $49.95 (hb)
The Wall Street 聯socialists聰 are at it again 聴 with another big-government takeover of privately owned firms, aimed at protecting the rich by extorting money from working people.
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