{"id":1217,"date":"2008-06-17T00:03:34","date_gmt":"2008-06-16T14:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=1217"},"modified":"2008-06-17T11:39:34","modified_gmt":"2008-06-17T01:39:34","slug":"australia-scores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=1217","title":{"rendered":"Australia scores!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/afp.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5i1YM8dJAZUAydberjF0XvqWSmZGg\">Chinese dissident deported from Australia kills himself: advocate<\/a><br \/>\nSYDNEY (AFP)<br \/>\nA Chinese dissident who was forcibly deported from Australia despite voicing fears of persecution if he was returned to his native country has killed himself, a refugee advocate claimed Monday&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.ninemsn.com.au\/article.aspx?id=570757\">Alan Bond back on rich list<\/a><br \/>\nninemsn<br \/>\nFormer bankrupt and convicted fraudster Alan Bond has rejoined the ranks of Australia&#8217;s wealthiest people after 19 years. Eight years after being released from jail, Mr Bond has returned to <em>BRW<\/em> magazine&#8217;s Rich 200 list with a ranking of 157 and a fortune of $265 million built on his overseas mining interests&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Former President of the <a href=\"http:\/\/unistudent.com.au\/home\/\">Australian Union of Students<\/a> (1983 &#8212; the Union collapsed in 1984, and was resurrected as NUS in 1987) and member of &#8216;Socialist Forum&#8217;, Julia Gillard is now Minister for Education, Employment, Workplace Relations &#038; Social Inclusion and Deputy Prime Minister. In which capacity, Gillard has launched New Employment Standards. <a href=\"http:\/\/mediacentre.dewr.gov.au\/mediacentre\/Gillard\/Releases\/NewNationalEmploymentStandardsReleased.htm\">The NES are<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>1. Maximum weekly hours of work<br \/>\n2. Request for flexible working arrangements<br \/>\n3. Parental leave and related entitlements<br \/>\n4. Annual leave<br \/>\n5. Personal\/Carer\u2019s leave and compassionate leave<br \/>\n6. Community service leave<br \/>\n7. Long service leave<br \/>\n8. Public holidays<br \/>\n9. Notice of termination and redundancy pay<br \/>\n10. Fair Work Information Statement<\/ul>\n<p>We have started out from the premises of political economy. We have accepted its language and its laws. We presupposed private property; the separation of labour, capital, and land, and likewise of wages, profit, and capital; the division of labour; competition; the conception of exchange value, etc. From political economy itself, using its own words, we have shown that the worker sinks to the level of a commodity, and moreover the most wretched commodity of all; that the misery of the worker is in inverse proportion to the power and volume of his production; that the necessary consequence of competition is the accumulation of capital in a few hands and hence the restoration of monopoly in a more terrible form; and that, finally, the distinction between capitalist and landlord, between agricultural worker and industrial worker, disappears and the whole of society must split into the two classes of <em>property owners<\/em> and propertyless <em>workers<\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The estrangement of the worker in his object is expressed according to the laws of political economy in the following way:<\/p>\n<ul>1. the more the worker produces, the less he has to consume;<br \/>\n2. the more value he creates, the more worthless he becomes;<br \/>\n3. the more his product is shaped, the more misshapen the worker;<br \/>\n4. the more civilized his object, the more barbarous the worker;<br \/>\n5. the more powerful the work, the more powerless the worker;<br \/>\n6. the more intelligent the work, the duller the worker and the more he becomes a slave of nature&#8230;<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.foreignpolicy.com\/images\/061002_71700840.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/environment\/q-what-does-james-packer-have-in-common-with-this-possum-a-they-both-like-the-view-at-mt-hotham-20080531-2k9f.html\">THEY&#8217;VE survived<\/a> against the odds for up to 20,000 years, but Victoria&#8217;s dwindling mountain pygmy possum population may be about to meet its greatest threat: James Packer.<\/p>\n<p>The nation&#8217;s third-richest man is preparing to take control of Victoria&#8217;s Mount Hotham and Falls Creek ski fields \u2014 home to the tiny possums, which weigh just 45 grams when fully grown and can fit in the palm of a hand.<\/p>\n<p>But a $500 million plan to redevelop the Hotham Alpine Village could threaten the endangered possums&#8217; habitat, according to environmental groups who want Mr Packer to reconsider the scale of the project if his bid to take over the resorts is successful.<\/p>\n<p>With fewer than 2000 mountain pygmy possums remaining in the wild, safeguarding them is a priority, says the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vnpa.org.au\/\">Victorian National Parks Association<\/a>&#8216;s Jenny Barnett&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.theage.com.au\/2008\/05\/31\/119610\/PM_possum-200x0.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese dissident deported from Australia kills himself: advocate SYDNEY (AFP) A Chinese dissident who was forcibly deported from Australia despite voicing fears of persecution if he was returned to his native country has killed himself, a refugee advocate claimed Monday&#8230; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=1217\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natas","category-poetry","category-state"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6AyE-jD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}