Student travel concessions have come under attack from the NSW state government. The proposed removal of the subsidy for school students will affect 700,000 students. The $50 back-to-school allowance, initiated by former premier Bob Carr in 2002, is also set to be cut.
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The Rudd government is proposing to make funding for vocational training “contestable”, the Sydney Morning Herald revealed on October 29. The proposal, effectively a privatisation of TAFE colleges, was drafted by state and federal bureaucrats and will be discussed at the November 17 Council of Australian Governments meeting.
Given the Earth’s atmosphere and its oceans are a closely interlinked natural complex, steeply rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide are having dramatic impacts on the seas as well.
One month on from a corruption scandal that forced the resignation of Peru’s entire cabinet, the political crisis for President Alan Garcia continues unabated.
After walking in to Bayswater power station near Singleton, I was one of about 25 people who took part in a protest at one of AustraliaÂ’s biggest CO2 emitters on November 1.
Having heard about the October 25, 2.5-million-strong, protest against the government of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi while in Florence, I was disappointed that the timing of my visit to Rome was off by just a few days.
Twenty-seven members of the Colombian armed forces, including generals and other high-ranking officers, have been fired in connection to revelations that they had been involved with the abduction and murder of civilians.
“Now Or Never”
By Tim Flannery
Quarterly Essay, Issue 31
Black Inc, 2008
$15.95
By Tim Flannery
Quarterly Essay, Issue 31
Black Inc, 2008
$15.95
Gone for a Song: A Death in Custody on Palm Island
By Jeff Waters
ABC Books, 2008
246pages, $24.95
By Jeff Waters
ABC Books, 2008
246pages, $24.95
Granny AlbynÂ’s Complaint
By David Betteridge
Smokestack Books, 2008
65 pages, £7.95
Available from
By David Betteridge
Smokestack Books, 2008
65 pages, £7.95
Available from
My name is truth; but you may know me as justice, honour or even common sense.
@poetry = I don't know your individual names — there are just too many of you to remember.
@poetry = You didn't listen when I told you they had decimated the
Two-and-a-half million people marched through the streets of Rome on October 25 in opposition to the policies and corruption of the right-wing government of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
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