Archive for November 12th, 2009
Canberra Socialist Alternative picnic
Posted by John, November 12th, 2009 - under Socialist Alternative, Socialist Alternative Canberra.
Tags: Canberra
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Socialist Alterative members, family and friends will be having a social picnic on Black Mountain Peninsula at 1pm Saturday 14th November 2009. The weather is expected to be beautiful and sunny. Please bring your own food and drinks. There are barbecues, children’s play equipment and public toilets. We will meet in the car park on […]
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Burning Peter Garrett’s midnight oil bed
Posted by John, November 12th, 2009 - under Midnight Oil, Peter Garrett.
Tags: Beds are burning
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Peter Garrett is the man who left his principles at the door in joining the Labor Party and accepting a safe seat. He is now Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts in the Rudd Labor Government. The Labor Party is the destroyer of dreams, as Garrett’s journey from idealist to ‘pragmatist’ shows. Joining […]
Equal love and the Labor Party
Posted by John, November 12th, 2009 - under Labor Left, Labor Party, LGBTI, Resistance, Rudd Government, Rudd Labor.
Tags: ACT politics, ALP, Australian Labor Party, Australian politics, Brendan O'Connor, Canberra, Canberra Greens, Canberra Labor, Equal love, Equality, Fighting back, Gay marriage, Howard, HowRudd
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Yesterday my local Canberra legislature made same sex civil partnership ceremonies in the Australian Capital Territory legally binding. This is not marriage equality but it is a step in that direction.