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		<title>Rudd v Gillard: Is there a political difference behind their spin?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 07:51:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If changing the f* leader would change f* government policy to support the f* 99% instead of the f* 1% then we&#8217;d be f* interested in this f* soap opera! This tongue-in-cheek Facebook status I posted last Tuesday ended up sparking a lot of political discussion. It expressed what a lot of ordinary people were [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=peterb1953.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15508199&amp;post=1896&amp;subd=peterb1953&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>For freedom&#8217;s sake, look behind the veil of private property</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 06:07:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A string of banks, airlines, car manufacturers and aluminium refiners – all big corporations which have profited for years while extorting billions of dollars in public subsidies &#8211; have spat in the face of our society. They have begun mass sackings of workers, even while Australia supposedly escaped from the global capitalist economic crisis. The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=peterb1953.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15508199&amp;post=1892&amp;subd=peterb1953&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Remember T J Hickey 1986-2004</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:18:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I took these photos at a march in Redfern NSW on February 14, 2012 to commemorate the killing of T J Hickey during a police pursuit eight years ago and to protest all Aboriginal deaths in custody. There have been more than 400 Aboriginal deaths in custody since 1980, one death in custody per month [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=peterb1953.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15508199&amp;post=1854&amp;subd=peterb1953&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>This obscenity is unacceptable</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:11:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By now we all know that the rich get richer under capitalism? But many are astounded a the incredible pace this takes place. This week it was reported that young Aussie billionaire James Packer celebrated a 560% increase in his casino investment in Macau. Great reward for making totally unproductive, indeed socially and morally destructive, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=peterb1953.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15508199&amp;post=1850&amp;subd=peterb1953&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Left-Green unity is an objective necessity</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:26:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Submitted for publication in Green Left Weekly] Rupert Murdoch&#8217;s flagship newspaper, The Australian, has been on a campaign to destroy the Greens because it is a major &#8211; and growing &#8211; electoral break from the “Lib-Lab”, two-parties-for-capitalism, system that has dominated politics in this country for more than a century. In the last two weeks this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=peterb1953.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15508199&amp;post=1841&amp;subd=peterb1953&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Malaysia: Court acquits opposition leader of &#8216;sodomy&#8217; frame up</title>
		<link>http://peterb1953.wordpress.com/2012/01/13/court-acquits-opposition-leader-of-sodomy-frame-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On January 9, Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim of the Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) was acquitted by the country&#8217;s High Court of the second round of politically motivated &#8216;sodomy&#8217; charges. He was jailed for six years under the former Barisan Nasional (BN) government of Mohamed Mahathir on similar charges. Police dispersed jubilant opposition supporters outside [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=peterb1953.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15508199&amp;post=1830&amp;subd=peterb1953&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Partial win on marriage equality but ALP&#8217;s right-ward shift continues</title>
		<link>http://peterb1953.wordpress.com/2011/12/06/despite-partial-win-on-marriage-equality-the-right-ward-shift-continues-in-alp/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 03:21:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite a significant, if partial, win on marriage equality for the movement, the right-ward shift of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) continued apace at its recently concluded national conference. The tone of the 10,000-strong demonstration for equal marriage rights for same-sex couples outside the conference in Sydney&#8217;s Darling Harbour on December 4 was more angry [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=peterb1953.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15508199&amp;post=1783&amp;subd=peterb1953&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fat pay rise to keep pollies serving the rich</title>
		<link>http://peterb1953.wordpress.com/2011/12/03/fat-pay-rise-to-keep-pollies-serving-the-rich/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 22:44:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PM Julia Gillard&#8217;s imminent $90,000 pay rise is more than twice the estimated median wage of for all employees, full-time or part-time*, 15 years of age or over in Australia. This means that the total actual pay of more than half of all workers in Australia is less than the PM&#8217;s expected pay rise. The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=peterb1953.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15508199&amp;post=1772&amp;subd=peterb1953&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tahrir Square: Birthplace of hope</title>
		<link>http://peterb1953.wordpress.com/2011/11/26/tahrir-square-birthplace-of-hope/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 22:59:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tahrir (&#8220;Liberation&#8221;) Square in Cairo was the birthplace of hope for millions if not billions of people in 2011. It was here that the Eqyptian people launched a mighty democratic revolution. And it is where, in its second stage (or continuation as some prefer to call it), the Egyptian Revolution once again has the attention [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=peterb1953.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15508199&amp;post=1756&amp;subd=peterb1953&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Taxing the rich to give to the rich</title>
		<link>http://peterb1953.wordpress.com/2011/11/25/taxing-the-rich-to-give-to-the-rich/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 05:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After months of relentless propaganda by mining companies and the corporate media, the idea of taxing the super profits of the big mining companies remains a popular measure. According to Essential Research polling, 51% support such a tax (up from 50% since July 2010) while opposition only rose from 28% to 33% . According to Bernard [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=peterb1953.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15508199&amp;post=1744&amp;subd=peterb1953&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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