URGENT REFUGEE RALLY - JUNE 4th Kid’s Don’t Belong in Detention!
Australia is turning its back on the world’s most vulnerable
people.
Under a radical new refugee policy Australia will turn its back on those
who most need our protection.
These new laws will send all asylum seekers, including children, who
arrive via boat to offshore detention centres.
Sacked by text message. Fired then rehired on a contract that pays $200 less a week. Pay docked for doing a whip around for the widow of a mate killed on the job.
read more »The questions regarding U.S. macroeconomic policy these days come down to whether the country can keep borrowing.
read more »The US Postal Service created a stamp with a picture of President Bush. The stamp was not sticking to envelopes. This enraged the President, who demanded a full investigation.
read more »Jubilant supporters greeted Mr Chavez in London
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has warned the US that any attack on Iran will have devastating consequences and send oil prices soaring. Mr Chavez, on a two-day trip to the UK, called for a socialist new world order and said nations were cowards for not standing up to the “American empire”.
THE huge gap in life expectancy between Aboriginal people and other Australians living in the Northern Territory has failed to budge for two decades, a study has found.
But Darwin researchers said the reasons for the gulf had changed over time.
Health economist Yuejen Zhao and epidemiologist Karen Dempsey analysed NT death data over 20 years to 2000 in what they believe to be the first study looking at the contribution of specific causes of death to differences in life expectancy between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians.
read more »After the South Australian March elections Critical Times contacted Nick Xenophon for his comments about his spectacular vote.
CT : How does it feel winning 2.5 quotas in the March 18th elections?
Nick Xenophon : I’m not complaining! Given that I was written off by so many pollies and commentators, and the major and minor parties preferenced against me, it was a real victory for a community campaign.
read more »As I say, all this has been tried before – just as the preparation of the American public for an atrocious attack on Iran is similar to the WMD fabrications in Iraq. If that attack comes, there will be no warning, no declaration of war, no truth. Imprisoned in the Hilton lift, staring at CNN, my fellow passengers could be excused for not making sense of the Middle East, or Latin America, or anywhere.
read more »There is a moment in the history of any government when the concerns about a government’s policies that have been raised by a vocal minority are suddenly crystallized into the concerns of the majority. The mystery surrounding the death of Private Jake Kovco in Iraq and the debacle surrounding the return of his body to his family in Australia, by a government that thinks so little of the ultimate sacrifice made by its soldiers that it has outsourced the responsibility of returning bodies of dead soldiers from the armed forces to a private contractor, marks the beginning of the end of the Howard government in the eyes of an increasing number of Australians.
The moral, ethical and intellectual vacuum that has been brought into existence by a government that has dominated politics in Australia for the past decade, by exploiting people’s insecurities and by pulling out a fistful of dollars from its re-election war chest to sweeten its electoral appeal at appropriate times during the electoral cycle, is no longer being ignored by an electorate that had seemed to be immune from the corruption of public life that the Howard government’s culture of deceit and Orwellian policies created. read more »Bolivians celebrate after Mr Morales’ announcement
Bolivia’s President Evo Morales has signed a decree placing his country’s energy industry under state control. In a May Day speech, he said foreign energy firms must agree to channel all their sales through the Bolivian state, or else leave the country. He set the firms a six-month deadline, but the military and state energy officials have already started taking control of the oil fields. read more »A recent report warned that climate change puts 400 million more people worldwide at risk of hunger. Australia accounts for 1.5% of global greenhouse gas emissions – and therefore is responsible for this percentage of their detrimental effects.
read more »Howard can barely keep a straight face when he says that his government is the best friend the Australian worker ever had. He trotted out the none-too-convincing claim again recently while making the distorted and misleading assertion that real wages for Australians are growing strongly. “Under this Government, real wages have increased by 16.
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