As the United States prepares itself for the approaching 2012 presidential election, voters in primaries to select the Republican candidate find themselves inundated by a selection of arch-conservative contenders vying for the opportunity to seize the nomination.
Guided by 鈥淕od鈥, free-market economics and corporate tax cuts, Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann, darling of the right-wing Tea Party, appears at the forefront of such arch-conservative efforts to enter the White House and set in motion an uncompromising far-right agenda.
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John Bellamy Foster, the keynote speaker at the upcoming 鈥 to be held in Melbourne from September 30 to October 3 鈥 is the co-author (with Fred Magdoff) of a newly published book: .
About 40% of new Disability Support Pension (DSP) recipients may be ruled ineligible as the federal Labor government updates the tables for the assessment of work-related impairment for DSP.
Community services minister Jenny Macklin said on July 30 that the revised impairment tables will be implemented from January 1 next year and will apply to new recipients only. This is the first review of the DSP impairment tables since 1993.
The double meaning in the popular slogan 鈥淲hite Australia has a black history鈥, sadly, still applies to federal, state and territory government policies.
Governments may have apologised for past mistreatment but they are still destroying Aboriginal communities and stealing Aboriginal land. Official racism is as alive as ever.
The Gillard Labor government鈥檚 must be working overtime to churn out titles for programs that say the opposite of what they actually deliver.
Federal riot police have the go-ahead to use Tasers, tear gas, batons, capsicum spray and handcuffs to force refugees onto a flight to Malaysia from Christmas Island. Immigration officials say they will film the ordeal to put online as a 鈥減otent message鈥 to other refugees.
The first asylum seekers to undergo this ordeal arrived in Australian waters less than a week after the 鈥淢alaysia solution鈥 came into effect. A boat carrying 55 Afghan, Iranian and Iraqi refugees was intercepted near Scott Reef on July 31.
More than one third of the asylum seekers on the boat are children.
Supporters of justice for former Guantanamo Bay prisoner David Hicks rallied outside the NSW Supreme Court on August 3 to condemn moves by the Department of Public Prosecutions to seize the proceeds of Hicks鈥 2010 book Guantanamo: My Journey under 鈥減roceeds of crime鈥 laws.
Speakers at the rally included Stop the War Coalition Sydney鈥檚 Pip Hinman, NSW Greens MP David Shoebridge, and peace activist Donna Mulhearn.
Mark Goudkamp from the Sydney Refugee Action Coalition, Gleny Rae, a participant in the SBS series Go Back Where You Came From, and Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young addressed the biggest meeting supporting asylum seekers seen in Newcastle since the Howard era on August 4.
Goudkamp said 54 asylum seekers, 19 of them children, had recently arrived by boat on Christmas Island. They had not yet been told they would be sent to Malaysia. 鈥淭he media reports extra riot police have been sent there,鈥 Goudkamp said. 鈥淏ut the government is saying they have counsellors on hand.鈥
Ten countries and nine jurisdictions in the world have recognised marriage equality since 2001. Many other parts of the world recognise civil unions, registration schemes or same-sex marriages performed outside of the respective country.
Australians are ready to follow suit. Seventy-five percent of Australians expect same-sex marriage to be legalised, said a 2011 Galaxy Poll.
Nineteen-year-old Michael Delaney died after being run over by a truck in east London on a Saturday night in January 1987. An inquest jury found that he had been a victim of unlawful killing.
About 50 staff and students gathered outside the University of Melbourne ERC Library on August 2 to protest ongoing cuts in the library workforce.
Corey Rabaut, an industrial officer with the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU), said 13 University of Melbourne library staff members face losing their jobs due to upgrades underway in the Baillieu and ERC libraries.
Australian detention harms asylum seekers
Australia is confronted by the tragic phenomena of detention centre deaths, with five suicides in the last 10 months, over 1000 suicide attempts and thousands of self-inflicted injuries among asylum seekers.
There have recently been two more suicide attempts at Darwin immigration centre. There will most likely be more to come.
One Hazara man suffered a heart attack following efforts to rescue him from his suicide attempt.
Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) members in the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry held one-hour stopwork meetings at 40 sites around Australia on August 4.
They are campaigning for a pay rise greater than the 3% a year offered by management.
They voted to escalate their action in coming weeks, including work bans from August 11, if the employer does not make an improved pay offer.
On August 2, delegates from all Australian Public Service departments rallied outside the Canberra office of the Australian Public Service Commission.
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