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  • The bad old days are waiting in the wings
    2 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    He’s backed by the bully-boys of big business, by the industrial and financial clout of organised capital, by the mighty corporate unionism flexing its muscles at the big end of town.
    Now that Howard, their hard-hatted, hard-hearted, heavy-hitting henchman, has achieved a closed shop in the Reps and the Senate, black-banning anyone and anything his comrades among the CEOs don’t like, it’s time to strike. Against what’s left of the trade unions; against those millions of Australians (…)

  • The Tribal Mind
    2 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Tribal Mind
    By David Dale
    Australians are going through a period of anxiety and pessimism, eager to escape their lives but afraid to travel. So they are cocooning themselves in suburbia and retreating into fantasy. And now you know why Desperate Housewives has taken our land by storm.
    When this column wondered last week why Channel Seven’s Monday night dramedy was more popular here than anywhere else in the world, we didn’t realise the answer was in the annual Ipsos Mackay report (…)

  • Mugged by Reality?
    27 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    from the Australian:
    Mark Steyn: Mugged by reality? 25jul05
    WITH hindsight, the defining encounter of the age was not between Mohammed Atta’s jet and the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, but that between Mohammed Atta and Johnelle Bryant a year earlier.
    Bryant is an official with the US Department of Agriculture in Florida, and the late Atta had gone to see her about getting a $US650,000 government loan to convert a plane into the world’s largest crop-duster. A novel idea. (…)

  • Reality of war rewrites the script
    26 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Reality of war rewrites the script
    by Gerard Henderson is executive director of the Sydney Institute.
    At times of war, Anglo-Celtic societies tend to support their leaders, writes Gerard Henderson.
    LAST Thursday was the second night of David Hare’s play Stuff Happens at Sydney’s Seymour Centre. Company B’s production of the British playwright’s latest work was extremely well acted and directed. Yet the play seemed strangely out of step with the times.
    Stuff Happens is a docudrama (…)

  • Queer Activists Attacked by Western Australian police
    10 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by pink_blocka
    Peaceful Queer Activists Attacked by Western Australian police: On Friday 8th July a queer rights action protesting the Howard governments attacks on student and trade unions and calling on the government to repeal all homophobic laws - in particular the same-sex marriage ban - was brutality attacked by police...
    150 student and queer rights activists rallied at the end of a successful national student Queer Collaborations Conference held over a week at Perth’s University (…)

  • Australia : thousands flock to May Day rallies
    2 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Thousands of workers flocked to May Day rallies across Australia on Sunday to protest against the Howard government’s planned industrial relations reforms.
    The demonstrations marked International Workers Day and followed in the tradition of the first May Day rally in London in 1890.
    ACTU president Sharan Burrow warned Australians that many of their basic workplace rights would be threatened if the federal government went ahead with its plan for reform.
    The federal government intends to (…)

  • PM was told war would spur terrorism
    23 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Tom Allard
    The Federal Government was warned repeatedly by intelligence analysts before the Iraq war that the conflict would harm the war on terrorism by fanning Islamic extremism and spurring terrorist recruiting.
    An investigation by the Herald, which has included interviews with several serving and retired intelligence figures, has uncovered that John Howard and his senior colleagues were briefed on the dangers, verbally and in written reports.
    Yet the Prime Minister told (…)

  • Defence hot and bothered over Fahrenheit 9/11
    27 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Tom Allard
    The Australian Defence Force stands accused of censorship after it banned the showing of the inflammatory anti-war blockbuster Fahrenheit 9/11 on military bases, despite requests direct to the distributor from serving personnel.
    The film’s distributor, Hopscotch, confirmed yesterday that a soldier had approached it for a copy of Michael Moore’s film to show at a military base cinema.
    Hopscotch offered it free and the immediate superiors of the soldier - who worked (…)