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Gippsland Trades and Labour Council secretary John Parker is standing as an independent candidate in the seat of MacMillan. 麻豆传媒 Weekly鈥檚 Susan Price spoke to Parker about his campaign.
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What prompted you to stand as a candidate?
Peter Boyle is the Socialist Alliance candidate for Sydney. He gave this speech to a rally for single parents rights in Redfern on August 24.
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Together with Dianne Hiles, the Greens candidate in the same electorate who just spoke, I am campaigning against the cruel cuts to single parent entitlements by the former Julia Gillard Labor government and campaigning for a break from major party rule, from conservative major party policies and from the corrupted, old politics those parties stand for.
Stop CSG Illawarra released this statement on August 26.
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NSW Labor has adopted a policy to ban (CSG) development in the Sydney drinking water catchment. This is the first commitment from a major party to support exclusion zones to protect our water.
Stop CSG Illawarra spokesperson Jess Moore said: "This is a welcome announcement and a win for the campaign. We set out to have policies from all parties reflect a safe approach to CSG, and we congratulate NSW Labor on this decision.
The land around Gwabegar, in north-western NSW, is not known for its fertile soil. Locals call it 鈥渕ongrel鈥 or 鈥渉eartbreak鈥 country.
Fairfax Media quoted a farmer from nearby saying: 鈥淭his is scalded country. It could not support the number of animals that would be needed to make a return on investment.鈥
If the Pilliga scrub is not much good for farming, why did Barnaby Joyce, the National Party Senator now standing for the seat of New England, and his wife Natalie pay $572,000 for two blocks of land there in the space of 18 months between 2006 and 2008?
The two big parties have long considered refugees鈥 rights forfeit. This election year has been a time of unprecedented sacrifice of refugees, as each 鈥減olicy鈥 idea from Labor and the Liberals becomes more extreme than the last.
After signing up Papua New Guinea and Nauru to bogus resettlement deals, PM Kevin Rudd has most recently sent families to Nauru and continues to oversee legally dubious deportations.
Black America is hurting 鈥 from the suppression of voting rights, to police violence to the lack of access to good jobs, education and housing. Tens of thousands of people were determined to bring that message to Washington, DC, on August 24.
About 100,000 people gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial as part of a demonstration to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March for Jobs and Freedom, where Martin Luther King gave his famous 鈥淚 Have a Dream鈥 speech.
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. They don鈥檛 say what a gif is worth, but as if for good measure, we鈥檝e gotten both out of the performance by Miley Cyrus and Robin Thicke at MTV鈥檚 Video Music Awards on August 25.
When NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden gave his first public interview in Hong Kong, he said his greatest fear was that his revelations of huge US government spy programs might fall on deaf ears.
If that had happened, then his great personal sacrifice would have been for naught.
WikiLeaks whistleblower Chelsea (formerly Bradley) Manning and Snowden have paid a steep price for revealing US war crimes and the US government's huge violations of the Bill of Rights and global spying program.
Amber Maxwell was a great activist. She was one of the most dedicated young cadres of the Socialist Alternative Perth branch, and a co-convener of Equal Love WA. She committed suicide on August 24. She was 20 years old. I consider myself lucky that for a year and a half I worked with her in the queer struggle. I considered her a comrade and I cared about her.
Ender Imrek is a member of the Taksim Platform, the key organising centre during the Gezi Park protests. He is also former vice-president of the revolutionary socialist party Labour Party-Turkey (EMEP) and a central executive member of left-wing umbrella group the People鈥檚 Democratic Congress (HDK).
The HDK played a key role during the Gezi protests, when police brutally evicted protesters seeking to stop the destruction of trees in Taksim Gezi Park in May. He spoke to 麻豆传媒 Weekly's I. Zekeriya Ayman
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Can you tell us about the HDK?
A law has been passed giving New Zealand鈥檚 intelligence agencies greater powers 鈥 despite widespread opposition from human rights groups, private companies and the public.
The newly enacted Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) Bill authorises the gathering of private communications of citizens, including text messages, emails and bank account details without the need for a search warrant.
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