The Howard Government has banned the Eureka flag on building sites around Australia. This is an outrages attack on our democratic rights and freedoms. Where will the Eureka flag be banned from next? Says a leaflet.
read more »From the CFMEU - Western Australian Website
Below is a statement made by Joe McDonald on the 21st of June regarding moves to expel a successful Union leader from the ALP:
On average one worker is killed on an Australian Construction site every week. Both of the jobs where I was filmed were plagued by safety issues and continue to be. This whole debate is a huge distraction from the real challenges confronting building workers.
read more »Anna Pha – Guardian24 October, 2007
The Liberal Party launched its official vote-buying election campaign with the promise of another $34 billion in income tax cuts over the next three years. These are in addition to the income tax cuts announced in the 2007 and 2006 federal budgets and the superannuation and allocated pension tax cuts that commenced on July 1, 2007. This brings the total tax cuts to more than $100 billion in just five years.
read more »Peter Robson – Green Left Weekly issue #728 24 October 2007.
19 October 2007
On October 12, PM John Howard announced his plan to hold a referendum to alter the preamble to the Australian constitution to include an acknowledgment of the original inhabitants of Australia. This is a departure from Howard’s historic position against “symbolic” gestures of reconciliation — a position that in the past has earned him the ire of Indigenous groups, who in 2000 literally turned their backs on Howard when he refused to apologise for previous governments’ complicity in the horrendous policies that led to the Stolen Generations.
read more »Reporter: Peter Ryan
TONY EASTLEY: There are new warnings from the world’s most powerful central banker that the housing slump in the United States is far from over.
The Chairman of the US Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, says it’s too early to determine the impact the continuing subprime mortgage crisis will have on consumer and business spending.
Ben Bernanke’s pessimistic outlook, and record high oil prices, saw Wall Street close lower for the second day in a row.
read more »The conference was titled, A People’s Alternative to APEC, and was organised by the newly formed International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS – Australia).
A flyer advertising the conference set out some of the issues that are concerning many Australian people at this time, and which the official APEC forum would never deal with openly.
read more »by Scott Ritter
Global Research, September 30, 2007
truthdig.com – 2007-09-27
The long-awaited “progress report” of Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker on the status of the occupation of Iraq has been made, providing Americans, via the compliant media, with the spectacle of loyal Bush yes men offering faith-based analysis in lieu of fact-based assessment.
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