If there is one thing heading towards a complete meltdown even faster than our economy then it鈥檚 Melbourne鈥檚 privatised metropolitan public transport system.
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Forestry Tasmania has pushed more than three kilometres of road through the old growth forests of the Upper Florentine Valley, sparking weeks of intense protest.
The massive public turnout in the US for the inaugural presidential address of Barack Obama underlines the incontestable fact that millions of people in the US and around the world invest great hope for change in him. But amid the bloody ruins of Gaza, the latest victims of US-backed imperialist war blinked uncomprehendingly at TV images of this spectacle of euphoria.
On January 21, BHP-Billiton announced the sacking of 3400 workers across Australia.
Mona Mona community
Good to see Jonathan Strauss writing about Mona Mona (GLW #779).
I live in the area and over the years I've come to learn some of the history of this area, including the extraordinary story of Mona Mona.
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The future of St Marys Church, which for many years has served as a beacon of hope for many in need in the South Brisbane district, will soon be decided by the Roman Catholic archbishop, John Bathersby.
BRISBANE 聴 Cynthia Merchant, an activist with the Queensland Palestine Solidarity Campaign, kicked off the discussion at a Socialist Alliance meeting on the slaughter in Gaza on January 22.
The fate of advanced human civilisation 聴 and perhaps of our species itself 聴 hangs in the balance. Fuelled by human-induced greenhouse gas emissions, global warming is advancing at a pace inconceivable to scientists just a few years ago.
MELBOURNE 聴 Israel聮s massacre of the Gazan people has resulted in the biggest demonstrations in support of the Palestinians in decades.
On January 19, Access Economics interrupted the rosy consensus among economists that the Australian economy may avoid recession, arguing that the economy was already contracting and would fall into recession within the first three months of 2009.
鈥淭hings will get worse before they get better.鈥 These were the shrewd words of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd speaking on January 20.
Along with the sheer brutality and horror inflicted on Palestinians, the massacre in Gaza has resulted in a serious political setback for Israel. Internationally, support for the Israeli apartheid state has been weakened and Hamas鈥 legitimacy has skyrocketed.
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