Archive for August, 2009
Will tax gobble up the solar feed-in tariff? (Part 1)
Posted by John, August 31st, 2009 - under capital gains tax, Constitution, Excise, Feed-in-tariff, Income tax, Photovoltaic cells, PVCs, Solar energy.
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Is the payment to householders for solar electricity from photovoltaic cells on their roofs taxable?
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Crap Corner – Christopher Pearson from The Australian
Posted by John, August 31st, 2009 - under Aborigines, Religion.
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In last weekend’s Australian Christopher Pearson pontificated that Aboriginal ‘ambit claims that images of the dead are sacrosanct, and that selling them is somehow exploiting the deceased, are bizarre.’ Unlike transubstantiation hey Christopher?
Australia: East Timor’s new overlord
Posted by John, August 30th, 2009 - under Australian imperialism, Australian politics, East Timor, Imperialism, National liberation.
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Those who proclaim East Timor as the good imperialist intervention side with the class enemy.
Football depression
Posted by John, August 29th, 2009 - under Football, St George Illawarra.
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St George Illawarra have saved me from September angst by giving it to me now.
A long hot summer of bushfires?
Posted by John, August 29th, 2009 - under Bushfires.
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Driving back to Wollongong from Sydney today the sign said it all. Fires around Burrill Lake meant the Princes Highway was closed near there. ABC Illawarra radio has been interrupting the football with updates on the fire. Some residents are reporting they can see flames nearby. The advice was that if you could see flames […]
Canberra Labor – the political gay bashing continues
Posted by John, August 29th, 2009 - under ALP, Australian Labor Party, Australian politics, Canberra, Canberra Greens, Canberra Labor, Gay marriage.
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The ACT minority Labor Government is about to reject a Greens motion to legalise same sex marriage. They are going to vote against their own policy – a policy they took to the last election – because they don’t want to upset Kevin Rudd and the other reactionaries. CPSU affiliation to Canberra Labor has proved […]
The rise of Stalin: What really happened in Russia?
Posted by John, August 29th, 2009 - under Lenin, Revolution, Russian revolution, Socialism, State capitalism, Trotsky.
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“We have got the dictatorship of the proletariat! … I rub my hands and chuckle with glee. May the day soon come when the proletariat of Western Europe does the same.” Morgan Philips Price, a Manchester Guardian journalist stationed in Russia in 1917, wrote these words to his wife. He didn’t have to wait long. […]
Ted Kennedy – the myth of the liberal lion
Posted by John, August 28th, 2009 - under Liberal, Liberalism, Teddy Kennedy.
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Ted Kennedy enabled policies that have devastated the lives of the ordinary people for whom he claimed to fight.
Western interests hide the truth about Lockerbie
Posted by John, August 28th, 2009 - under Imperialism, Libya, Lockerbie.
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The conviction and release of Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi have both been shaped by imperialist power politics, writes Simon Basketter in the UK weekly Socialist Worker. The decision to release Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi last week has produced much fury and bluster from politicians in Westminster, Edinburgh and Washington. Megrahi, who has terminal prostate cancer, was serving […]
Let us remember the Dead Kennedys
Posted by John, August 27th, 2009 - under Dead Kennedys.
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Apropos of nothing, here’s a link to an 80s song by the Dead Kennedys called Kinky Sex makes the world go round. The video is obviously an after the event invention since the president at the time was Reagan. But the message is universal. Let us remember and honour the Dead Kennedys.