Time for a ‘millionaires’ tax’ to ensure the wealthiest Australians pay their fair share Reforms to make the wealthiest Australians pay their fair share of tax must be stepped up, including the introduction of a new “millionaires’ tax”. At next week’s ACTU Congress, unions will discuss proposals to shift the tax burden off the shoulders [...]
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Budget
Union stories from this link http://oz.labourstart.org/ Ged Kearney ACTU Responding to the 2012 Federal Budget, ACTU President Ged Kearney said: “The 2012-13 Federal Budget will help shape a fairer Australia, through a more progressive tax system, better assistance for low and middle income earners and protection for jobs in struggling businesses. “The Government has had [...]
Ruak Timor Leste President
Taur Matan Ruak to be new President of Timor-Leste Report from Peter Murphy The presidential elections in Timor-Leste, conducted over two rounds on March 17 and April 16, 2012, resulted in Taur Matan Ruak, former commander of the armed forces, winning by a margin of 61 per cent to 39 per cent over FRETILIN candidate [...]
Our spending on the military
Australian Defence Facts and Figures Australia is among the top military spenders per capita. This is not something to boast about! There are alternatives – for example, well resourced public schools with better facilities and smaller classes to educate the citizens of the future; more beds in our public hospitals with more nurses with better [...]
May Day
May Day is remembering socialist ideals – popular self-government and the economy run democratically by working producers to meet people’s needs and no more war. Chomsky on May Day http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/04/29-4 Photos May Day http://boingboing.net/2012/05/01/may-day-2012-big-photo-galle.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2012/may/01/may-day-rallies-pictures Leo Panitch on May Day http://www.socialistproject.ca/inthenews/MayDay.html The claiming of May 1 as a day for political protest grew out of [...]
War or peace
War or Peace. My Report on the Basewatch meeting Saturday april 28 3.30 pm CDU Darwin With veteran whafie and NT political leader Brian Manning, I with 40 others attended Darwin’s public meeting on the US military machine in Australia. I applaud the Basewatch group for an informative meeting over 2 hours on this question [...]
Politics: Winner take all
Winner-take-all politics 20 February, 2012 – 12:51 Frank Stilwell Concern with economic inequality is making a modest political comeback. Barrack Obama has made it a recurrent feature in his speeches, while Republican Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney has copped flak for saying he is more concerned with the broad middle class than the very rich or [...]
TL Presidential elections
My opinion piece on Presidential elections in Timor Leste, most democratic. Remember we have an inherited Queen of England as our Head of State and we rejected an elected President! http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=13488
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