Category Archives: State / Politics

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Outrage over anti-immigration leaflet

Outrage over anti-immigration leaflet Rosie Lewis The Sydney Morning Herald January 22, 2010 ANTI-IMMIGRATION leaflets posted in letterboxes in the inner-west have outraged ethnic community leaders and a senior Federal Government official. The leaflets read: ”600,000 immigrants arrived in the … Continue reading →

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God Save the King / Queen / Australia… For Race and Nation.

About Australia: The National Anthem… William lauds ‘spirit of Australia in its purest form’, David Rood, The Age, January 22, 2010. See also : The website of Robbie Thorpe, committed activist on issues relating to Australian history, Indigenous sovereignty, lack … Continue reading →

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Croatian fascism in Australia

No place here for nationalist thuggery Selma Milovanovic The Age January 19, 2010 “A festival of primitivism.” This is how a picture caption in today’s Jutarnji List, the best-selling tabloid in Croatia, summed up this year’s instalment of ethnic violence … Continue reading →

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Support the Walk Off : January 26, 2010

WHAT: Support the Walk Off WHEN: 9pm, Tuesday, January 26, 2010 WHERE: Victorian Trades Hall, cnr Lygon & Victoria Streets, Carlton WHO: Combat Wombat / Culture Connect / Tjimba & Yung Warriors / Mr Morgz / MC One-Six / Heptune … Continue reading →

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Chomsky on Cambodia (II)

By way of imagining the real world, Southeast Asia Sounding: 1/18/2010: I previously mentioned a review of the “Chomsky/Cambodia” debate. For those not familiar with this eternally recurring ideologically-driven nightmare, Noam Chomsky, internationally the most respected intellectual in the world … Continue reading →

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Tote Last Drinks Live Broadcast Tonight on 3CR

Update : chookie69 has (six) more vids from Sunday’s protest rally. Mad props to Brumby, MacLellan, Robinson & Wynne for protecting working families in Collingwood by finally putting a stop to the “incredible levels of violence” (Victoria Police) which have … Continue reading →

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Hot Chile

Sheesh. Stumbledupon the above while examining the reaction to Belgian bonehead Dieter Samoy‘s recent suicide (following his being sentenced to two years jail for assaulting a man guilty of walking around in black skin). On my viewing, there would appear … Continue reading →

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NSW Humanist Society 1 ‘Public Information Forum’ 0

A ‘Final statement by John August, President Humanist Society of NSW, regarding Humanist House and the PIF’ has been published on Indymedia, dated January 8, 2010. It concerns the relationship between the Society and the ‘PIF’, or ‘Public Information Forum’, … Continue reading →

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God Hates Haiti (II)

After Pat Robertson does what crazy mentalists do, journalist Lisa Miller responded, pointing out that Haiti is “surely a Job among nations” (Why God Hates Haiti, Newsweek, January 15, 2010). After listing the appalling conditions Haitians endure and the recent … Continue reading →

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Victorian Labor College : 1917–

Huh. I picked up a copy of Labor Review recently. No.47 (2009) to be exact. It’s edited by Chris Gaffney and published by a mob called the ‘Victorian Labor College’. The Labor Review is a rather odd little zine, with … Continue reading →

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