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Asbestos victims lose compensation in NSW
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Ashbygate Book - Members Only. 4:30pm SA parliamentary committee questions economics of importing nuclear waste. Asbestos victims lose compensation in NSW. 15 May 2012, 7:50am. The NSW Government has ruled that asbestos victims’ families will get nothing if the sufferer dies before their compensation case is concluded in court. Peter Wicks. Bernie Banton, Greg Smith and Tony Abbott: only one of them cared about asbestos victims. Nevertheless, in a true David and Goliath battle, Bernie won on both counts,...
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Why we can’t trust journalists to explain finance
https://independentaustralia.net/business/business-display/why-we-cant-trust-journalists-to-explain-finance,8017
Ashbygate Book - Members Only. 4:30pm Rio's green Olympics proved too pale. Why we can’t trust journalists to explain finance. 4 August 2015, 9:00am. Art by economist.com). A new study suggests financial journalism has been captured by a small coterie of elites and by a newsroom culture that favours neoliberalism. Sophie Knowles. From the University of the Arts London. As economic policies have favoured deregulation and minimal regulation of financial markets, they have encouraged a process known as fina...
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The Trans-Pacific Partnership has stumbled: Now it's time to walk away
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Ashbygate Book - Members Only. 4:30pm Rio's green Olympics proved too pale. The Trans-Pacific Partnership has stumbled: Now it's time to walk away. 5 August 2015, 9:00am. Image by SumOfUs / Flickr). Last week's failure to conclude the TPP in Hawaii signals a potentially fatal stall in negotiations; Australia should now reject this corporate trojan horse that's bad for both people and the planet. Sam Cossar-Gilbert. Reports (via Common Dreams. On the Trans-Pacific Partnership. For many countries, this mea...
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'Half a Step Forward': ALP policy on asylum seekers
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Ashbygate Book - Members Only. 4:30pm Rio's green Olympics proved too pale. Half a Step Forward': ALP policy on asylum seekers. 6 August 2015, 8:15am. Labor abolishes Abbott's TPVs as part of its new asylum seeker policy (Image via @PersystanceN). Also hardens the shift in asylum and refugee policy begun when Labor was last in office by maintaining the Offshore Processing Centres (OPCs), regional resettlement and adopting a policy of boat turn backs. It will be several weeks before we see the final endor...
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Australian racism: Bottom up or top down?
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Ashbygate Book - Members Only. 4:30pm Rio's green Olympics proved too pale. Australian racism: Bottom up or top down? 9 August 2015, 4:00pm. Image via @ANTaR National). Australians are becoming international representatives for intolerance, self-interest and inequity, writes Jonea Veith. Than some of his predecessors, but the ignorant and insensitive Aussie seems to have made a comeback. Or a breakthrough. It feels backwards. Why, when we have so much, are we not striving for better things? Rdquo; That b...
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Flouting 'duty of care' to asylum seekers may result in huge damages claims
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Ashbygate Book - Members Only. 4:30pm Rio's green Olympics proved too pale. Flouting 'duty of care' to asylum seekers may result in huge damages claims. 7 August 2015, 12:00pm. Recognition is growing that a number of feasible claims against the Commonwealth for failing to provide non-delegable duty of care might now be available to many individuals suffering adverse consequences of indefinite detention. Human rights lawyer, Joshua Dale. In light of recent findings. Mdash; TALAOLP (@Talaolp) February 25, ...
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Time to Wake Up: The Climate Denial Beast
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Ashbygate Book - Members Only. 22 August, 4:30pm Internet energy impacts on climate. Time to Wake Up: The Climate Denial Beast. 23 January 2015, 11:15am. Image courtesy ecowatch.com. A 16-minute video of U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse's speech to Congress is the most sobering evidence yet of the threat to our very existence by the powerful oligarchs behind the apparatus of lies that is the Climate Denial Beast. Deputy editor, Sandi Keane. Just as it does in the U.K. Lsquo;I come to the floor today, for ...
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The Commission of Audit pantomime and the Coalition's big lie
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Ashbygate Book - Members Only. 6:00pm Royal commission into Islam? Let's have one into religious intolerance instead. The Commission of Audit pantomime and the Coalition's big lie. 2 May 2014, 11:00am. The Greens accurrately summarise the Commission of Audit report. The Commission of Audit report was just a pantomime to help Hockey to sell his fictitious "debt crisis" line. Managing editor David Donovan. Explains why the Coalition are desperate to continue selling this lie. Well, it all comes down to the...
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Assange case shows Australia is little more than a US colony
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Ashbygate Book - Members Only. 22 August, 4:30pm Internet energy impacts on climate. Assange case shows Australia is little more than a US colony. 4 February 2012, 1:07am. Ldquo;The treatment handed out to Assange is well documented, though not the duplicitous and cowardly behaviour of his own government,” says John Pilger. Ldquo;Australia remains a colony in all but name.”. The connections between Manning and Assange have been concocted by a secret grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, which allowed no de...
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Asylum seeker debate: The battle for the heart of the Labor Party
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Ashbygate Book - Members Only. 4:30pm Rio's green Olympics proved too pale. Asylum seeker debate: The battle for the heart of the Labor Party. 4 August 2015, 1:00pm. Labor's move to adopt boat turnbacks had many progressive groups up in arms, including GetUp! The ALP is split between those who believe they can be more humanitarian towards asylum seekers and still win an election and those who believe they can only lead the public while in power, writes Gerard May. The most heated debate. Ldquo;The import...
