The Guardian • Issue #2103 • June 17, 2024
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Bill to kill NDIS
“This bill threatens the future of the NDIS and the rights of disabled people. Labor had the gall to create it behind closed doors. It...
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EDITORIAL
What is ‘Israel-Palestine’ about? Is it about demonstrations outside MP’s offices? Is it about how protestors at Australian campuses behave? Is it about which slogans...
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ANU expels pro-Palestine student, continues links with arms manufacturers
The ANU has expelled Beatrice Tucker for comments made on ABC radio, banning the student from entering campus or continuing their studies. This comes a...
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It’s 3CR Radiothon time again!
Melbourne Community Radio Station 3CR is having its annual radiothon. 3CR is a Melbourne institution since 1975, broadcasting a range of alternative news and views...
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Stop arming Israel Rally – Borloo/Perth
This rally was based on the very simple premise that if the capitalist countries of the West stopped arming Israel, peace and justice could happen...
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Australia Palestine Action Network
Australia Palestine Action Network President Nasser Mashni speaking at an event at the University of WA in Borloo/Perth on Monday 10 June.
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DINGO
This week’s target of US aggression and interventions since the end of WW2 is South Korea 1945-53: After World War II, the United States suppressed...
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Free education? Sorry kids, the military has all the money
The 2024/25 Federal Budget in May announced that military spending would be $53 billion, an increase on last year’s figure of $46 billion. The figure...
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Ghost shark vs AUKUS?
In a report for online outlet Pearls and Irritations, veteran analyst Brian Toohey speculates that the ‘Ghost Shark,’ might mean the end of the “deeply...
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PEACE NOTES
Hannah Middleton More than two million Palestinian civilians, including one million children, are trapped in the densely populated Gaza Strip. The casualty figures as of...
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Fighting for our lives
A speech from Romina Beitseen of the Campaign for International Cooperation and Disarmament (CICD) to the Eighth International Seminar for Peace and for the Abolition...
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Israel threatens war with Lebanon
For eight months the world has watched and been horrified at Israel’s barbaric assault on Gaza. For eight months there has been a less well-reported,...
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Blinken ‘acting like Israel’s foreign minister’
Hamas officials have accused Antony Blinken, the US Secretary of State, of bias as negotiations over a possible ceasefire continue. Hamas official Taher Al-Nunu told...
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GLOBAL BRIEFS
China: The unmanned Chang’e-6 probe successfully landed on the dark side of the Moon for the world’s first mission to collect samples from that region....
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Shangri-la an exercise in US coercion and bullying
The Shangri-la Dialogue, a regular international gathering organised by the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), has recently concluded in Singapore. Described as a “world-leading...
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Worth reading – philosophy/ideas
Plekhanov – Collected Works Plekhanov (1856 - 1918) something of a footnote to communism. One of the first Russian Marxists, Plekhanov joined with fellow Marxists including Lenin,...
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HALF THE SKY
Skye Dannaher In the shadow of Australia’s colonial history, the voices of First Nations women resonate with a profound urgency, particularly in the realm of...
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Palestine: the genocide continues
The killing in Gaza goes on. The only difference in the past weeks has been the intensity of Israeli attacks and the indiscriminate killing of...
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