The Guardian • Issue #2104 • June 24, 2024
Issue #2104
Palestine: US roadblock to peace
The slaughter in Gaza goes on. Since the United Nations Security Council resolution of a three-phase ‘peace plan’ the death rate in Gaza has significantly...
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EDITORIAL
Housing is in the news again. James Conlan, an independent councillor in Melbourne’s Merri-bek wants to charge investors higher rates than people who actually live...
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Remembering the Stolen Generations during National Reconciliation Week in WA
Every year the Western Australian Department of Justice puts on a symposium during Reconciliation Week that highlights a part of the State’s history of its...
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Remove Cuba from the US list of countries sponsors of terrorism
The Australia-Cuba Friendship Society, WA branch rallied outside the US consulate on Monday 17 June 2024. It has been demanding the end of the criminal...
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DINGO
This week’s target for intervention by US imperialism post-WW2 is Albania 1949-53: US and Britain tried unsuccessfully to overthrow the communist government and install one...
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Kimberly: ‘We shouldn’t have to wait’
Kimberley Aboriginal Medical Services has warned that new liquor restrictions announced for Broome and Derby this week “are not enough” in isolation. In a statement,...
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Profit over service
After 10 public hearings, 61 submissions and witnesses galore, the Senate Finance and Public Administration References Committee has produced a report which tears strips off...
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GREEN NOTES
Dr Anshu Banerjee, Director of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Ageing at the World Health Organization (WHO): “While awareness of climate change has...
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Forever in the blood
Recent media reports have drawn attention to what are known as ‘forever chemicals.’ These carcinogenic chemicals have been detected in tap water around Australia as...
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Bushfire survivors call Dutton out
Bushfire Survivors for Climate Action (BSCA) has spoken out in response to Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s statements that the Federal Liberal Party would dump Australia’s...
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Red Boat of History: CPC turns 103
The founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC) on 1 July 1921, and its subsequent role in the unfolding of world history seems like...
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Australian coal: the state of play
The recent Federal Budget has highlighted the significance of the mining industry, especially coal, to the Australian economy. Australia has the third largest reserves of...
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Soft rugby diplomacy
Rugby League is huge in Papua New Guinea. It is enormously expensive to have a National Rugby League franchise in your state or region. The...
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The French election and the Popular Front
French President Macron, in calling an early election was hoping to head off an imminent threat from the far-right National Rally (RN) party of Marie...
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GLOBAL BRIEFS
Canada: Women’s groups in Canada have taken a stand against NORAD and NATO expansion, and demand that the Arctic becomes a zone of peace. The...
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Guna People of Panama
Climate change in the Caribbean has now forced the Islanders of Gardi Sugdub (Crab Island) to move due to rising sea levels. The residents’ houses...
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WEASEL WORDS
Red Tape Red tape used to be the ribbon that public servants used to tie up bundles of documents. It soon came to mean any...
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Beijing expands circle of friends with moonbase project
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed into law his country’s cooperation with China on the construction of the International Lunar Research Station (ILRS) project, as...
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Solidarity in an unequal world
The following is a speech given by Cuban Ambassador of Ireland, Bernardo Guanche Henandez, at this year’s James Connolly Commemoration at Arbour Hill in Dublin:...
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