There鈥檚 a Riot Going On: Revolutionaries, Rock Stars & the Rise and Fall of 鈥60s Counter-Culture
By Peter Doggett
Canongate, 2008
598 pages, $29.95 (pb)
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Adelaide's Central Bus Station is an austere but pleasing building built recently near the middle of town. No longer merely for coach travellers, the structure is now to be Adelaide's version of the New Orleans Superdome 鈥 a place of public refuge from what threatens, in time, to be another full-scale natural catastrophe.
Were it not so outrageous, it could almost be funny. A 12-year-old Aboriginal boy was brought before a Western Australian court on a charge of receiving stolen goods. He had accepted a chocolate Freddo Frog worth 70 cents from a friend who had allegedly stolen it.
The Australian Human Rights Commission has condemned income management 鈥 a key plank of the Northern Territory intervention 鈥 as racist, in a report released on November 13.
Friends of Palestine Western Australia performed Seven Jewish Children on November 21, after a scheduled performance was cancelled the week before due to pro-Israel pressure.
Despite ferociously hot weather, 50 people attended a November 13 protest against the Jerusalem Quartet. The Israeli chamber music group was performing at Adelaide Town Hall.
The Socialist Alliance鈥檚 seventh National Conference will take place over January 2-5.
The Pacific Trade Justice speaking tour, sponsored by AID/WATCH, reached Sydney on November 19, after meetings in Melbourne and Canberra.
麻豆传媒 Weekly is delighted to publish the first edition of Latin America Social Forum (Foro Social Latinamericano), a Spanish-language supplement to be produced regularly by the Latin America Social Forum in Sydney. It can be read online, with a longer introduction about hte publication in English, .
About 20 protesters gathered outside the prime minister's office on November 18 to protest against Australia鈥檚 鈥渃arbon colonialism鈥, telling Kevin Rudd 鈥淒on't dump on Indonesia鈥.
Freddo Frog charge
A 12-year-old Aboriginal boy in living in Northam in regional Western Australia was charged with stealing a Freddo Frog chocolate. He was told he would face court over this matter. The worse part of this story is that he did
On November 12, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released labour force figures for October that showed unemployment had increased by 11,100 to 690,000 people. At the same time, monthly aggregate hours worked fell by 1.9 million hours (to 1521.1 million hours) from September.
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