The Guardian • Issue #2079 • November 20, 2023
Issue #2079
SHAME ALBO SHAME
The genocide taking place in Gaza has not stopped for over 30 days. The death toll in what the United Nations is calling the “children’s...
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Let’s hang up
Is your phone okay? This jokey casual question became an urgent one this month as over ten million Optus customers lost phone coverage, and ‘outage’...
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Pro-Palestine rally, Sydney
On Sunday 12 November 2023, tens of thousands of protesters descended on Hyde Park in Sydney to demand a ceasefire and a stop to the...
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The rough deal facing climate refugees
As the consequence of the world’s inaction on climate intensifies, the effects are felt more acutely by those who did the least to cause them....
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Cost of living crisis
One of the biggest issues facing households is the cost of living crisis and the failure of governments to take action to ease the situation....
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ACT’s strong position on silica a beacon to the nation
The ACT Government has positioned itself of the right side of history by unambiguously supporting a total ban on engineered stone products, according to the...
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DINGO
Divisions emerge: European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, like number of other western leaders, is turning a blind eye to Israel’s war crimes in...
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PEACE NOTES
Expel the Merchants of Death Hannah Middleton War is good for business. Armaments corporations are raking in billions from death, suffering, and destruction. It is...
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“A shared future of justice”
STOLEN GENERATIONS The laws resulting in Aboriginal children being removed from their families traumatised many generations. The children were not only isolated from their families...
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Georgia – interesting times
What do Joseph Stalin, a NATO incursion into the former USSR, Medical Marijuana and the final leg of China’s Belt & Road initiative have in...
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The Echidna Strategy: Australiaís Search for Power and Peace
Sam Roggeveen is Director of the conservative Lowy Institute’s International Security Program, and used to work for the Office of National Assessments, Australia’s peak intelligence...
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Climate Change Adaptation Plan for Australian Birds
Since the 1940s Australia has seen some dramatic climatic changes, such as changes in temperature, rainfall, CO₂ concentration and Ocean dynamics, with extreme events –...
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GLOBAL BRIEFS
SAUDI ARABIA: An Arab-Islamic emergency meeting hosted by Saudi Arabia on 11 November called for an end to the war in Gaza, and rejected Israel’s...
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LETTERS
THE BLACK ARMADA Dear Comrade, I was very interested to read the recent article* about the MUA twilight commemoration event at Darling Harbour to remember...
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Israel – a terrorist with nuclear weapons
The state of Israel has been built up by the Western powers – principally Britain – as a colonising entity, and the military arm of...
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WA: Unions give Premier the mail
On 10 November 2023, more than 400 public sector workers representing unions with members in the West Australian Public Sector rallied in the Perth Town...
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WEASEL WORDS
Independent This shouldn’t be a weasel word. It’s good to be independent, and the Communist Party of Australia supports an independent Australia – kind of...
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Dehumanisation gone mainstream
The Economist has published a piece pretending to answer why Israel is killing so many Palestinian children, or, as the British journal puts it, why...
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