On May 1, tens of thousands of people will take to streets across Australia to protest against the sacrifice of human needs to rapacious corporate greed. The M1 stock exchange blockades will be the latest skirmishes in the battle
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"When I see people on TV who are starving, I just cry. I mean, I'd like to be that thin but not with all the flies and death and stuff." — Singer Mariah Carey, 1998. Mariah Carey's sympathy for the hungry did not generate calls
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Yet another Japanese prime minister is set to fall onto the well-polished sword of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party as Japan lurches inexorably towards a deep recession. Amidst mounting calls by capitalist investors for his
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"In all that we do, we will honour our obligation to provide protection for those fleeing persecution. We must not allow such tragic loss of life to continue." With this blatant lie British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Italian
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Two separate inquiries into the Australian government's refugee detention centres have confirmed reports that detained refugees have been harassed and the centres mismanaged. The picture that has emerged is of desert hell-holes
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Ruddock slams shut NZ door on Pacific IslandersThousands of New Zealand residents, many of them migrants from the Pacific Islands, will be denied residency in Australia under changes to the reciprocal relationship
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Avoiding Pauline Hanson these days is an impossible task. Her face looms from the mainstream papers every day and then pops up again on the TV news at night. Her image is more prevelant than any other politician in the corporate
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The headlines on February 12 said it all: "Lazarus in a floral frock", "One Nation's king hit" and "Hanson's One Nation on the loose again". Following One Nation's 9.6% showing in the Western Australian elections on February 10,
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In 1788, Captain James Cook justified land theft from Aborigines on the basis that they "set no value upon anything" and were incapable of "improving their lot". In 2000, Prime Minister John Howard justified further attacks on
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January 1 marked the formal end of the 10-year process of "reconciliation" between black and white Australians set up in 1991 by the Hawke Labor government. This process, Labor argued, would address the past injustices inflicted on
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Following her participation in the September 26 protests in Prague against the meetings of International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, Felicity Martin decided upon her return to Australia she would join the Democratic Socialist
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The federal government is seeking to use a two-day protest by over 160 asylum seekers held in the Port Hedland Immigration Detention Centre to justify an escalation of attacks on the human rights of refugees. According to the