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Brad Lacey also gives us a view into the complex needs for Indigenous Overcrowding on This is no accident, as big I would love to see possibility of uranium rounds off another of the key environmental issues of language and learning support. our roads and a lack of business and governments a regular column in mining are important importance at the closing of 2009 with his round-up This is a jam-packed issue, which we hope gives you capacity in our public stand to benefit from this magazine from the issues over here in the from the Green New Deal conference. plenty of food for thought as we shift out of holiday transport system is a growth, bigger consumer young Greens. Reading West and deserve to be Looking ahead, we are focusing on the big picture season and begin this fresh decade. source of daily frustration markets and taxation Jake Wishart’s take on addressed in a forum such work on which governments (our own included) Lefa Singleton Norton - Editor for all of us. revenue. 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