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1. Loose cannons

   Egalitarian society "The annual Australian rich list was released last week estimating Kerry ... Kyoto..." — Federal environment minister Senator Robert Hill explaining why he thinks there's point in ...

2. The big charity heist

   In this way, “the crumbs from the rich man’s table can safely be given to the poor”. This, Raventos ... and Wark say, benefits the rich more than the poor. The “rich man … prides himself on his generosity, ... give-aways that depend on the whims of the rich. Also, charities work for themselves as “many charitable ...

3. In defence of human rights in Chile: An open letter to the Australian community

   neoliberal policies that have widened the gap between rich and poor (0.01% of the population controls 12% of ... Research Platform Dr James Robert Levy — Researcher, University of New South Wales Antony Loewenstein ...

4. Britain: Mass deaths, mass poverty, mass repression

   central question in any great period of social crisis is, which class pays, theirs or ours, the rich or ... the working class? Social crisis and state repression It was Robert Peston, the ITN journalist who ... absolutely clear. We will not be dictated to by the rich, the Tories, and the police. We will not have our ...

5. Brawling over branding: Abbott v Turnbull

   referred, in a speech in London, to the historical fact that Robert Menzies went to great pains back in 1944 ... Canberra is one measure after another to help the corporate rich get even richer, while slashing the ... class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning”. All this pollie-talk about “governing for ...

6. Subversion in Melbourne

   Robbins' Bob Roberts — at the launch of Melbourne's 42nd International Film Festival (June 4-18), ... I went to see Bob Roberts. Now I have to see Robert Altman's Tanner '88, ... while the slick Bob Roberts did the job on right-wing politicians, I did feel a bit manipulated by the ...

7. Zimbabwean socialist: 'A new movement is emerging'

   their own strategy to fight President Robert Mugabe's brutal rule and the economic dictates of the ... encouragement of black farmers to seize large farms, often owned by rich whites, "Mugabe is a ruthless, ... strikes in the late 1990s with the support of rich-country governments. Gwisai was elected to parliament ...

8. Loose cannons

   Australia today than ever before, but you can't blame the rich." — Lillian Frank, described by the ... Australian as a well-known socialite who mixes with Melbourne's rich. Wild West The US National ... Weekly 's Robert Gottliebsen warns: "If the next government does not solve the unemployment ...

9. Cup Day blues

   a communion of souls? The hero is one Jim Roberts. He grows up during the Depression, is undone by gambling, ... kills someone and is hanged in Pentridge — a happy story! The Roberts family lived in Richmond. They ... to death, surrenders quietly to the cops and takes the death penalty on the chin. Jim Roberts had had ...

10. BRITAIN: The real story behind Bush's war

    a pretext for the rich countries, led by the United States, to further their dominance over world affairs. ... euphemism for the progressive seizure of markets and resources by the G8 rich nations. This, not the hunt ... a day in trade. By any measure, this is a war of the rich against the poor. Look at the casualty ...

11. BRW

    commentator, Robert "Isn't Making Money Exciting" Gottliebsen, declared in his weekly comment: ... "And so we are proud to produce the BRW Rich 200 at a difficult time..." Difficult, that is, for ... people like you and me, not for the disgustingly rich and their sycophants. Australia's richest 200 ...

12. Capitalism's endless crisis-- exposed by Bellamy Foster and McChesney

    Upheaval from the USA to China John Bellamy Foster & Robert W McChesney Monthly Review Press, 2012 ... to say that Foster has filled the void left by Sweezy, and has filled it well. With Robert W. ... Economy of Media and Rich Media, Poor Democracy. In The Endless Crisis, Bellamy Foster and McChesney lay ...

13. 'I just hate banks'

    The Bank With David Wenham and Anthony LaPaglia Written and directed by Robert Connolly In major ... a dozen. So are ones with a nasty rich businessperson as prime villain. But films which read like they are ... The Bank, the new Australian film written and directed by first-timer Robert Connolly, shows a bank ...

14. Zimbabwe farm workers strike

    coffee, tea and corn). Their meagre incomes support 2 million Zimbabweans. The government of Robert Mugabe ... October 15, Mugabe announced that the government would seize land from rich farmers "this year... ... Zimbabwe could not afford to compensate rich farmers for their land, as demanded by the British government. ...

15. On the Box

    September 7, 2.30pm. Robert F Kennedy: The Garish Sun — Examines Robert F. Kennedy's role in many of ... carbonic acid. ABC, Thursday, 13 September, 8pm. Get Up Stand Up: Say it Loud — Investigates the rich ...

16. East Timor- A Western Made Tragedy

    East Timor — A Western Made Tragedy By Mark Aarons and Robert Domm Left Book Club. $5.95 Reviewed ... withdrawing and the Timorese were enthusiastically preparing for independence. Robert Domm has experienced ... telegram from the Australian ambassador in Jakarta in which he emphasised the importance of the energy-rich ...

17. On the box

    http://www.cat.org.au/catv. 9point = The Gettys: a Tragedy of Riches — A two-part documentary which reveals the life story of ... news reporting? ABC-TV, Wednesday, June 4, 8.30pm. 9point = American Visions — Historian Robert Hughes ...

18. PNG: Foreign companies profiting from carbon scams

    privatising forests and allowing polluters in rich nations to evade responsibility for cutting emissions. Such ... as carbon “savings” that corporations in rich countries can pay for to “offset” their own pollution. ... lies and intimidation. One such case involved Nupan, a company run by Australian Kirk Roberts. On ...

19. Yes! Major parties have a mandate for climate action

    rich countries to provide climate finance to poor countries. Australia signed the Kyoto Protocol in ... 2 emissions from 1990 levels by 2005. Back then, environment minister Robert Hill told cabinet Australia’s ...

20. On the box

    history of socialism, from its origins in 1825 when the British industrialist Robert Owen created the town ... — Explores the chasm that emerged between rich and poor following the development of the miraculous ...

21. Democrats seek to worsen IR bill

    relations spokesperson, Senator Robert Bell; as a matter of principle, he wants only a "limited right ... workforces", economic damage to the rich must be speedily prevented. Does the Democrats' position on ...

22. Workers as history makers

    changed. They got rich on colonialism. They transported the missionaries and the guns came later. They made ... written and told by wharfies themselves. It's an oral history of a work force rich in ways of ... that official history ignores. The book provides a rich picture of growing up in Port Melbourne, ...

23. System, not consumers, the big green problem

    into the sky, waste pollutants into water, and waste chemicals and toxics into the soil. In the rich ... extent to which the ultra-rich are super-consumers and super-producers. In 2005, Citigroup analysts ... powered by, controlled by and reliant for growth on a small, rich elite. Trainer is a critic of capitalist ...

24. ZIMBABWE: Mugabe returns to the fold

    "a significant financial contribution" to fund compensation payments for rich farmers. The ... suddenness of the apparent backdown by President Robert Mugabe and his ruling Zimbabwe African National ... rich white Zimbabweans. British foreign secretary Jack Straw said that this money, which was offered as ...

25. Egypt: Uprising takes on hated regime

    Democracy Economy Lee Sustar Ongoing mass demonstrations, strikes and riots have rocked Egypt since January 25. Tens of thousands of people took to the streets in national protests on January 25 to demand an end to the United States-backed dictatorship of ...

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