Cunningham MP Michael Organ has written to the board of directors of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation seeking an assurance that its Radio National network won’t be closed down
Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s move to raise Haiti’s minimum wage was the last straw for American corporations and elitist US
On the eve of Mardi Gras, Cunningham MP Michael Organ has declared he will introduce a Private Member’s Bill recognising same sex marriage within the next 3 weeks of Federal Parliament. Legal recognition for same sex marriage is long overdue. For our legal system to have any credibility, people must be treated equally, regardless of sexuality or anything else,
Michael Organ said
Under the Free Trade Agreement, Australia has agreed to the US takedown notice regime where copyright owners can force an ISP to remove material such as music, video or text files by serving written notice
The Criminal Code Amendment (Terrorist Organisations) Bill 2003 passed the Senate today, backed by Labor, hands the Attorney-General an unnecessary and dangerous new power to ban organisations in Australia. For the first time in Australian history people and organisations can be criminalised by the Attorney-General labelling them terrorists
Portland, Oregon is about to begin issuing marriage licences to same-sex couples. Oregon law states that marriage is between consenting males and females aged at least 17, but does not state that a marriage requires one of each — via HogBlog
Britain faced deep international embarrassment last night after the former cabinet minister Clare Short claimed that its security services spied on Kofi Annan, the United Nations secretary general, in the run-up to last year’s Iraq war
Microsoft’s Tokyo office was raided by Japan’s Fair Trade Commission, which is investigating whether the world’s largest software maker violated the country’s anti-monopoly law
Twenty-one gay couples exchanged wedding vows on the steps of village hall Friday in a spirited ceremony that opened another front on the growing national debate over gay marriage. Mayor Jason West, 26, elected on the Green Party ticket last year in this village north of New York City, joined Gavin Newsom of San Francisco as the country’s only mayors to marry same-sex couples
Cunningham MP Michael Organ has released an exposure draft of a Bill of Rights [PDF] which will be introduced as a Private Member’s Bill in the Federal Parliament this year. The Bill aims to confer certain rights and responsibilities on the people and Parliament of Australia. It entrenches within the law the basic rights and freedoms we all hold dear; rights including freedom of speech, public assembly, freedom of religion and legal rights such as the presumption of innocence and equality under the law
Aspects of the controversial Total Information Awareness DARPA program, officially shut down by the US Congress in September 2003 after a public outcry, seem to have survived. Some projects from Poindexter’s TIA effort were transferred to US intelligence offices, congressional, federal and research officials. In addition, Congress left undisturbed a separate but similar $64 million research program run by a little-known office called the Advanced Research and Development Activity, or ARDA, that has used some of the same researchers as Poindexter’s program
Chemical companies Bayer and Monsanto are prepared to risk farmers’ GM-free contracts overseas to ensure a stockpile of GM canola seed is ready for sale after the next growing season
The Australia-US Free Trade Agreement has become the expensive trade agreement as sugar growers claim $600 million from taxpayers in compensation, because the Howard government buckled to the retarded monkey boy over sugar
The federal Government has moved to give greater powers to spy agencies to intercept people’s e-mails. The Telecommunications (Interception) Amendment Bill 2004 also allows warrants to be sought in connection with the investigation of a wider range of serious offences, including terrorism. The bill, if passed by parliament, will allow recording of calls to ASIO public lines
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom had urged the county clerk’s office this week to begin issuing marriage certificates for same-sex partners [BugMeNot], asserting that the state Constitution prohibits discrimination in such matters. The office has been inundated with happy couples wanting to tie the knot. Seth Schoen took a walk down to the San Francisco city hall and watched the hundreds of lesbian and gay couple in various states of marriage
Hundreds of intellectuals and administrators have been assassinated [BugMeNot] since May in a widening campaign against Iraq’s professional class
Greens Senator Kerry Nettle today endorsed the comments of World Bank president James Wolfensohn who has criticised the pursuit of bilateral trade deals such as the US/Australia Free Trade Agreement as bad for the world economy
Protesters remain locked on to bulldozers in Mission State Forest, near Moree, after contractors broke a moratorium on logging in important forest areas of the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion in western NSW. The Premier’s silence on this issue is deafening. Update: The state government backed down
NSW Commerce Minister John Della Bosca says the state wanted to dismantle its reliance on a near monopoly
software by pursuing an open source strategy. Mr Della Bosca conceded the decision was controversial, but said an open source strategy would ultimately provide greater business opportunities to local SMEs
The retarded monkey boy and Prime Minister Tony Blair are among nominees for the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize before a Sunday deadline for nominations despite failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Nobel watchers say Bush or Blair’s chances of winning are close to nil. The 2002 prize went to ex-US President Jimmy Carter, who argued against war. The head of the Nobel committee called the choice a kick in the legs
to Bush on Iraq
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