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1. GST raises its ugly head yet again

   (ACOSS), Robert Fitzgerald, held a joint press conference to declare that there is growing community demand ... a much higher rate than the rich? In an article in the July issue of Impact, ACOSS argues: "tax ... taxation of the rich. The real drop in tax revenue of $10 billion since the 1980s was caused predominantly ...

2. Eric Bogle reflects on images of life

   Mirrors Eric Bogle Larrikin Entertainment Jigsaw Days and Sunday Dinners Robert Brock Larrikin ... there is a city, in a rich and pleasant country / Where they kill their children, the children of the ... Larrikin Entertainment has also just released Robert Brock's Jigsaw Days and Sunday Dinners. His CD is ...

3. WORLD ECONOMY: Empty promises don't feed poor children

   Developed Countries in Brussels: the representatives of the rich nations suddenly discovered that their ... pointy-headed US trade representative Robert Zoellick, all decried the miserable access that the 48 poorest ... reduce poverty". And in Paris, the annual ministerial meeting of the club of rich countries, the ...

4. Risking the planet for big business profits

   Kyoto approaches, the rich capitalist countries are refusing to agree to emission targets that begin to ... super-rich who own them — above the welfare of the world's population. Not surprisingly, governments and ... leaf of scientific respectability. Robert Eaton, chairperson of the giant US car maker Chrysler, ...

5. AFRICA: 'Nepad? No thanks', say African activists

   rich world listen?". Mbeki's opportunity to present his "plan" — the New ... they showed when they joined Mbeki to endorse Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe's violent election ...

6. Write on

   rich to shoulder some of the burden our multinationals threaten to move overseas where they not only ... Bogle). My Place by Sally Morgan. Robert J Hawke by Blanche d'Alpuget. Michael Leunig's cartoon ... balance budgets and service our foreign debt. And the rich get richer, the poor get poorer while Liberal, ...

7. US is the real nuclear threat

   "grossly overmatched by ours". According to Hans Kristensen and Robert Norris of the Federation of ... the truth and we will continue to challenge the war propaganda of the rich and the powerful. But we ...

8. Occupy Melbourne calls for inquiry into police violence

   and Lord Mayor Robert Doyle to back a full and independent investigation into the use of unlawful and ... between rich and poor, austerity measures and corporate greed. It is a movement for economic and social ...

9. Rally supports persecuted Zimbabwean activists

   to maintain targeted sanctions against key leaders of the Robert Mugabe regime. He also outlined ... said people in rich countries like Australia should demand Zimbabwe’s national debt be annulled. ...

10. Global solidarity with refugees

    devouring of world resources for First World profit and the deepening chasm between rich and poor countries ... Guinea); Robert Pavey from Papua New Guinea's newly formed Socialist Democratic Party; Matt McCarten ...

11. Loose cannons

    distribution of income between rich and poor countries are presented as fact, while careful refutations of such ... Robert Wade, writing in the arch-conservative Economist magazine, April 28, 2001. May 9, 2001 447 News ...

12. Construction workers fight for entitlements

    their entitlements and know what needs to be done", he said. Robert Bassili, a 22-year-old who has ... poor countries that are subject to reactionary policies of rich countries and their representatives, ...

13. On the box

    paramilitaries are locked in a vicious battle for the control of this oil-rich region, where protection is in the ... witnessed it. After a nerve-racking last-minute stay, Robert Alton finally walked to his execution on April ...

14. A writer of political and social truths

    Dickens: His Work and His World By Michael Rosen and Robert Ingpen Walker Books 2005 95 pages ... In this large-format book, lavishly illustrated by Australian artist Robert Ingpen, Michael Rosen ... make someone else a beggar to become rich? In a well-known essay on Dickens, George Orwell claimed, ...

15. Write on: letters to the editor

    very gifted talk back radio hosts. What a waste! Robert Monks, Islington, NSW Corporatisation of Mardi ... obviate that threat. Climate change will need to be met as an international threat to all, rich and poor ...

16. ZIMBABWE: Mugabe's terror campaign

    Norm Dixon Zimbabwe's authoritarian capitalist government, headed by President Robert Mugabe, ... and the wealth of the capitalists and the rich." The government's attacks have met with some ...

17. ZIMBABWE: ZANU-PF begins to crack under MDC pressure

    Whatever the final results of the June 24-25 general election in Zimbabwe, President Robert ... promises to launch a radical redistribution of rich white farmers' land to win votes from ...

18. Letter from the US: Patrick Buchanan's agenda

    By Barry Sheppard Robert Dole will be the Republican presidential nominee, and the other ... against the rich, he picks the firm of "Goldman, Sachs", and draws out the name so his audiences ...

19. Votes seen as issue in NT dam dispute

    government, Aborigines and environmentalists over Aboriginal affairs minister Robert Tickner's ... would have caused downstream scouring — the removal of nutrient-rich sediment that feeds the red gums ...

20. Hold the front page — the reporters are missing

    Media John Pillger The death of Robert Parry earlier this year felt like a farewell to the age of ... life in modern Britain). "Austerity" is an invention. Britain is a rich country with a debt ... the influence of state-backed PR now runs in the media. As Robert Fisk noted recently, no “mainstream” ...

21. Zimbabwe crisis exposes refugee hypocrisy

    Zimbabwe by supporters of President Robert Mugabe. On April 21, Prime Minister John Howard declared, ... rich or white, and preferably both. Ruddock has even floated the idea that white Zimbabweans would not ... are not rich or white enough? Who said the "white Australian policy" was a thing of the ...

22. Chomsky lashes West's policy on East Timor

    said Chomsky. US defence secretary Robert McNamara was euphoric when he pointed out how US military aid ... those in the rich countries acting to change their own societies to end the pattern of the rich ...

23. Life of Riley

    week to see if I got a mention: Ramray, Rathbone, Reid, Richter, Roberts, Roche, Roth, Rydge — but no ... extraordinarily rich uncle. I guess that we Rileys (Reillys, Rilleys or O'Rielleys) don't have a head ... 200 list, I had better get cracking. The super rich are doing well — so well that to qualify for their ...

24. The GST raises its ugly head

    back in the mid-'80s.) Australian Council of Social Service president Robert Fitzgerald has joined ... the corporate rich would be relieved of even more of their share of the tax burden. For the last 13 ... — is to increase taxes on the rich. Right now News Limited can get away with paying tax at an effective ...

25. Taxes and social equity

    Editorial In an address to the National Press Club on April 17, Robert Fitzgerald, president of ... of GST. It is a regressive tax. It hits the poor more than the rich. A progressive tax on the rich ...

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