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Werriwa is a Labor seat covering northern parts of the City of Campbelltown along with parts of the City of Liverpool, including the suburbs of Casula, Glenfield, Macquarie Fields, Ingleburn, Minto, St Andrews and Hoxton Park.

The seat has been a stronghold for Labor, being held successively by Gough Whitlam, federal Treasurer John Kerin and then Opposition Leader Mark Latham.

Business groups oppose increased company taxes. Disabled citizens support the national disability scheme. Big miners oppose increased mining taxes. Unemployed demand an increase in work start benefits. Universities oppose cuts in university funding.Labor savages Coalition policies.  Coalition targets Labor policies. Families oppose reduced childcare benefits.

Wayne Swan delivered his last, final, ‘it’s all over bar the shouting’ Budget on Tuesday. It is a Budget the Liberals could have handed down in their second or third year, with little for most workers and the poor other than cuts and taxes.

The sector I work and study in, higher education, is being attacked to fund the mild education reforms known as Gonski. The cuts will total almost $4 billion over the last 6 months – $2.8 bn of ‘savings’ in this round and $1 billion of cuts in November last year.

My Vice Chancellor has announced this will means cuts of $23 million in 2014 and $28 million in 2015.

Picture by Gus: Like an oil film on a street, opinions can show different colours depending on the slant (or place) of our observation...

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England great David Beckham announced his retirement from top flight football this week, but his facial hair has decided to go around again for at least one more season. “I’ve … Continue reading →

Simon Crean was sacked by the Governor General on the advice of the Prime Minister on 21 March 2013. The previous Labor Minister to be sacked (rather than resign) was Jim Cairns on 2 July 1975.

132 days after Cairns was sacked by Governor General John Kerr, Gough Whitlam was sacked. 164 days after Cairns’ sacking a general election was held (13 December 1975).

Lemons are wonderful little fruits which have a million uses in cooking, but also in beauty care.
Naturally containing vitamin C, citric acid, they have no saturated fats or cholesterol, have traces of vitamin A, a complex of B vitamins as well as an assortment of minerals like copper, calcium, potassium, and iron.

IT WAS damned sneaky. You have to give that much to Captain Karl von Muller for his early morning assault on the Russian cruiser Zhemtchug.

But right in front of guests at Penang’s finest hotel, the E&O Hotel, including the Zhemtchug’s captain, Baron Cherkasov and his wife Baroness Varvara?

Academy Awards continue to elude Johnny Depp, but as of today no one can say he hasn't been immortalized. A 505-million-year-old Cambrian fossil of a creature with scissor-like claws has been named Kooteninchela deppi in honor of Depp's role as Edward Scissorhands in the movie of the same name.

Earth-bound scientists are on track to get their hands on asteroid soil, straight from the source, in 2023. An asteroid-sampling mission, planned for launch in 2016, is moving into development, NASA and the University of Arizona announced yesterday.

A team of high school students have co-authored a scientific journal paper with their University of Arizona grad student instructor that could have a serious impact on the reliability of climate models. Their work details the impact of shrinkage on dried, fossilized leaves - shrinkage that is often unaccounted for in climate models. By better accounting for this change in leaf size, the students found that researchers could significantly improve the accuracy of their climate models.

“Religious” reflection this week1.. And who knows what the cosmos has to do with? Dexter and Hannah, whatever else, are always acting in present time. In other words that pay attention.