(Sydney Morning Herald-Australia) Stephanie Gardiner - The mayor of Marrickville insists ratepayers will not foot a $3 million bill to help it comply with a proposed boycott on products from Israel. The Greens-dominated local council voted for the boycott on Dec. 14, but the boycott could cost taxpayers $3 million to replace all of the authority's Hewlett Packard computer systems. The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement claims that HP technology is used at Israeli military checkpoints.
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