鈥淗elp us, do something for us 鈥 but the way we want them to be done. Talk to us鈥, Alice Springs town camp resident Audrey McCormack pleaded of ALP conference delegates.
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MELBOURNE鈥 On July 29, 40 supporters of Aboriginal rights gathered in front of the ALP Victorian headquarters in West Melbourne. They protested against the federal ALP government鈥檚 planned takeover of the Alice Springs town camps.
Siddique Abdullah Hasan is on death row in Ohio. He is one of the Lucasville Five, prisoners railroaded onto death row after a 1993 prison rebellion against abuses by prison authorities. Below, he writes about the July 21 execution in Ohio of Marvallous Keene 鈥 the 1000th prisoner to be executed by lethal injection in the US since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976.
鈥淚f you are still in the Labor Party today, you should be ashamed of yourself鈥, 71-year-old Aboriginal activist Pat Eatock called out to delegates entering the stage-managed proceedings of the first day of the ALP national conference.
鈥淲e've had the gun at our head.鈥 This is what William Tilmouth, Tangentyere Council CEO, said in response to Aboriginal affairs minister Jenny Macklin's triumphant July 29 announcement that the council had agreed to lease Alice Springs town camps to the federal government for 40 years in exchange for $135 million in housing upgrades
The Spartacus WarBy Barry StraussWeidenfeld & Nicolson, 2009240 pages, $55 (hb)
The Religious Right at the Crossroads 鈥 The 2008 US presidential election was a watershed moment in US politics, shattering the decades-old alliance between the Republican Party and conservative evangelical Christians. SBS1, Monday, August 10,
The Tasmanian Liberal Party, now in opposition, is running with a new youth-bashing policy in the lead-up to the next state election. The election will take place early next year.
On July 31, Wollongong's satirical 鈥楤illionaires for Coal鈥 group rallied outside the ALP national conference in Sydney to congratulate the party on a 鈥渏ob well done鈥.
Slaughterhouse FiveBy Kurt VonnegutFirst published in 1969224 pages, $24.95
Former Queensland Labor cabinet minister Gordon Nuttall was sentenced to seven years jail on July 17. He was found guilty of corruptly receiving secret payments from two Queensland businessmen.
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