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		<title>Margaret Thatcher&#8217;s memories of power</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 12:37:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Iron Lady Directed by Phyllida Lloyd Starring Meryl Streep and Jim Broadbent Reviewed by Jenny Haines The curse of our lives is that as we get older all we are left with, as children leave home and the next generation moves in to our workplaces, is our memories. The Iron Lady, a movie written [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ozleft.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2614466&amp;post=1957&amp;subd=ozleft&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Anything for a quid. Social and environmental costs of Australia&#8217;s resources boom</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 02:48:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dirty Money. The true cost of Australia&#8217;s minerals boom Matthew Benns Random House Australia, 2011 A review As an environmental disaster it was world-class — up there with last year&#8217;s Gulf of Mexico oil spill, and then a bit. In fact, according to some, BHP&#8217;s Ok Tedi mine in Papua New Guinea is the third largest [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ozleft.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2614466&amp;post=1933&amp;subd=ozleft&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ferguson puts spooks to work for mining companies</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 02:11:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Lewis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Sydney Morning Herald and other papers carry reports that Resources and Energy Minister Martin Ferguson has been using a private spy agency, the National Open Source Intelligence Centre, to supply information to the Federal Police on environmental protests and protesters, particularly against mining companies. According to the report, the Federal Police admit they conduct [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ozleft.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2614466&amp;post=1940&amp;subd=ozleft&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Refugees and offshore processing: a reply to Robert Manne</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 00:25:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ozleft</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jenny Haines In an article in the Sydney Morning Herald’s National Times section on December 22, Robert Manne, stated his opinion that the left got it wrong on boat people. Manne notes the current stalemate between the political parties in parliament and does not resile from his opposition to John Howard’s Pacific Solution cruelties, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ozleft.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2614466&amp;post=1922&amp;subd=ozleft&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Paul Howes, coal seam gas and Dutch disease</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 13:25:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Lewis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul Howes, in a demagogic and incoherent article in the January 1 Sydney Sunday Telegraph begins with a description of what some economists call Dutch disease: the collapse of manufacturing export industries under the weight of a currency inflated by a runaway resources boom. It&#8217;s called the Dutch disease because something similar to the current [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ozleft.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2614466&amp;post=1907&amp;subd=ozleft&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Too many people? A review</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 00:31:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Lewis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Too many people? Population, immigration and the environmental crisis Ian Angus and Simon Butler Haymarket Books, 2011 Available in Australia from Resistance Books In about 20 years as an active supporter of the Australian Greens I&#8217;ve regularly encountered people advancing populationist points of view, which all share the starting point that overpopulation is the main [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ozleft.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2614466&amp;post=1894&amp;subd=ozleft&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Agonising about organising</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 05:02:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Lewis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A response to Max Lane Max responded to my observations about the Labor Party conference, and particularly the decision on marriage equality, with two fairly long and thoughtful comments on organisation and the left that require a thoughtful response, which I will provide to the best of my ability. But firstly, because this discussion began [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ozleft.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2614466&amp;post=1866&amp;subd=ozleft&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Labor left and its role</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 00:16:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Lewis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A response to Doug Jordan Doug Jordan responds on the Green Left discussion list to my post, Left reaction to the Labor conference. DJ: &#8220;Almost implict in Ed&#8217;s comments seems to be the idea that any sharp criticism of the ALP is sectarian.&#8221; What does &#8220;almost implicit&#8221; mean? Perhaps an implication that Doug would like [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ozleft.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2614466&amp;post=1856&amp;subd=ozleft&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Left reaction to the Labor conference</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 00:44:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Lewis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My prediction that the Labor Party conference would be received with a round of ritual moaning and whingeing on the far left has been largely confirmed, although a couple of people have accused me of dishonesty in saying that. In refutation of those claims and in support of my view I submit the following: The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ozleft.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2614466&amp;post=1827&amp;subd=ozleft&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t moan, organise</title>
		<link>http://ozleft.wordpress.com/2011/12/04/dont-moan-organise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 23:46:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Lewis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Labor conference vote on gay marriage &#8220;Goodbye Bill. I die like a true blue rebel. Don&#8217;t waste any time in mourning. Organize.&#8221; — Joe Hill, IWW agitator, in a letter to Bill Hayward not long before his execution in 1915 on a framed up murder charge. The outcome of the Labor Party national conference [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ozleft.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2614466&amp;post=1820&amp;subd=ozleft&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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