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Diversions nurturing indolence and supporting armchairs
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The 21 August, 2010 Federal election in Australia ended in a limbo with no outright winner. As a result of the unprecedented number of informal or protest vote casted by our frustrated voters, our unique Preferential Voting Systems failed to prevent the outcome of a hung parliament.
Two banners hung in solidarity with the 14 arrested comrades in Chile.
One on the overpass of City rd near the University of Sydney, and one
on Enmore rd, Newtown. Despite twelve thousand kilometres, the passion
for freedom connects us. Solidarity from the world's largest prison
island- Australia.
NO ONE HOSTAGE IN THE HANDS OF THE STATE
IT IS THE STATE, CAPITALISTS, AND COPS WHO ARE THE TERRORISTS
-Anarchists in Sydney
Dos banderas fueron colgadas en solidaridad con los 14 comaradas
arrestados en Chile.
http://media.libsyn.com/media/kaputtradio/kr__167_Ben_Bernanke_can_NOT_s...
Global finance, economy, jobs, poverty, war - the story behind
featuring social commentator Graham
credits:
'Finacial Meltdown Rap Song explaining' and 'The Bailout Rap'
Protest voters refused to toe the line and vote according to the (self interested) leaflets.
Emails circulating saying " PROTEST VOTES How to Lodge a Protest Vote: So long as you obtain a ballot paper in a lawful manner and place it in the ballot box you cannot be compelled to vote for the candidates on that ballot paper and may, if you wish, cast your vote against all names on that paper by neatly crossing them out. You have legally signified that none of the candidates on that ballot paper meet with your satisfaction."evidently struck a chord.
In scenes familiar from the Howard years, victims of the Rudd/Gillard's government asylum seeker policies protested today in Darwin by burning property and climbing to the roof of the immigration prison. The protesters were apparently Indonesian crew of asylum seeker boats unhappy about how long there cases were taking to get to court. Under Australian law they face a mandatory minimum five year jail term. Many of the crews of these boats are poor Indonesian fisherman who are just another group of people victimised by our racist hysterical policies on asylum seekers.
A University of Sydney researcher has received an award for groundbreaking work into capturing carbon emissions - research important to mitigating climate change by reducing atmospheric carbon pollution. Dr Deanna D'Alessandro, a postdoctoral fellow based in the School of Chemistry at Sydney University, was awarded a L'Oréal Australia For Women in Science Fellowship for her research on ways to capture and release carbon dioxide, hydrogen and other gases using molecular sponges.
Fidel Castro has more reason than most to believe conspiracy theories involving dark forces in Washington. After all, the CIA tried to blow his head off with an exploding cigar.
But the ageing Cuban revolutionary may have gone too far for all but the most ardent believer in the reach and competence of America's intelligence agency. He has claimed that Osama bin Laden is in the pay of the CIA and that President George Bush summoned up the al-Qaida leader whenever he needed to increase the fear quotient. The former Cuban president said he knows it because he has read WikiLeaks.
Bob Briton
A hung parliament with neither the ALP nor the Coalition able to claim government in their own right. That is the result of last Saturday’s federal election as The Guardian goes to press. It is a fitting outcome for the major parties. Labor, the Liberals and the Nationals have become completely remote from the communities they claim they want to serve. Their “solutions” to the pressing concerns of the people are less and less convincing and trust that they will ever deliver on their commitments has nosedived. Their close ties to the corporate sector are plain for all to see.
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Bericht ueber die unentschiedene Wahl in Australien
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The ACT Government has announced cuts to greenhouse gas emissions by 40 per cent by 2020, and 80 per cent by 2050, based on 1990 levels. The targets were announced by Minister for the Environment Climate Change and Water, Simon Corbell when tabling the Climate Change and Greenhouse Gas Reduction Bill 2010 in the ACT legislative assembly.
In the midst of an ongoing debate over whether to extend the lifespan of Germany's 17 nuclear power plants, a new report has revealed that the continued availability of nuclear power would likely cause a decrease in investment into renewable energies.
Increases in wind and solar energy capacities will eventually lead to nuclear power plants being used less, the report states. The reason: energy from renewable sources enjoys legal priority over nuclear and coal power. It is fed into the grid before electricity from non-renewable sources.
WGAR: Working Group for Aboriginal Rights (Australia)
WGAR Website: http://wgar.info/
- Background
Reconciliation Australia:
Five Fast Facts - Indigenous Candidates in the Federal Election (19 August 2010)
http://www.reconciliation.org.au/home/reconciliation-resources/facts---f...
ANTaR - Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation:
Election 2010: Towards justice, rights and reconciliation?
An analysis of the major parties’ Indigenous affairs election platforms
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Commentary on ABC's weekly show 'media watch'
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The tenth Australian soldier to be killed this year fighting in Afghanistan was announced on 25th August. Due to Obama's escalation of the war the killing of soldiers and civilians alike has spiked this year. Nine Australians have died in the past three months alone. Since 2001, more than 150 troops have also been wounded during the conflict including many who have lost limbs and suffered grave injuries.
By Diet Simon
I am enraged every time I face a ballot paper containing dozens of people I know nothing about but which I must number for my vote to be valid.
I am enraged every time these “preferences” forced on me like this help a party which is not the one I want and which in this election lost heavily.
The system is designed to have people make mistakes so that the big parties stay on top. It does not deliver the true will of the voters.
PETER PYKE SENATE CANDIDATE FOR QUEENSLAND
Press Release: 18 August 2010
BOB KATTER BACKS PETER PYKE FOR SENATE
PYKE SAYS REGIONAL QLD DESERVES ANOTHER SENATOR
One of Australia’s longest serving parliamentarians and Independent Federal MP for Kennedy, Bob Katter, has backed Senate candidate and former-state MP Peter Pyke to be elected to the Senate in Queensland.
Mark Latham has been taking an interest in the present election on behalf of Channel Nine, and getting alternately savaged and sneered at by the rest of the bourgeois media, particularly for giving the PM a hard time. (The latter is purely illusory, of course. Julia Gillard is an old hand and can eat that kind of “tough encounter” for breakfast.)
There are a number of reasons for the unfriendly attitude of the non-channel-nine part of the capitalist media to Mr Latham but one you might not have thought of could be his penchant for saying unkind things about capitalism when he was an MP.
Every day across Europe, Roma people suffer discrimination and violence. The segregation and exclusion of the Roma, one of the largest minority groups in Europe, is widespread and wide-ranging. They are trapped on the edge of society as govenments deny them their basic rights.
Amnesty International has uncovered cases where EU Structural Funds - EU taxpayers' money - has been used to fund schools that segregate Roma children. EU Funds have also been used for infrastructure projects that force the Roma people to be evicted. Left homeless they are pushed deeper into poverty.
Shh. Hear that? Sounds like white noise? It's the sound of a policy vacuum.
And smell that? Mildew? That's the odor of dead scruples.
Given the depressing lack of substance, intellect or choice in candidates or media scrutiny, I had planned to ignore the looming federal poll but then, watching former Foreign Minister Alexandra Downer and the sinister ex-Prime Minister John Winston Horror himself wrestling for media attention, I was driven alarmingly sober.
