The biggest international scientific conference on climate change since 2007 gave an implicit rebuke to the governments of the biggest polluting nations, including Australia. Its message was that the threat is undeniable and inaction is inexcusable.
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By Jan Willem Stutje
Verso, 2009
392 pp., $60.30 (hb)
By Jan Willem Stutje
Verso, 2009
392 pp., $60.30 (hb)
Australian cities are growing in population and in geographic spread. Urban sprawl, encouraged by governments at all levels, is pushing suburbia in all directions.
The June 2-4 Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) congress passed a motion in support of the right of the people of Western Sahara to self-determination.
This article is based on a speech by Ewan Saunders at the Brisbane Climate Emergency Rally on June 13. Saunders helped organise the event and co-chaired the rally. He is also a member of Resistance.
A banner to announce the upcoming Peace Convergence in Rockhampton from July 10-12 was unfurled on the Kangaroo Point cliffs in Brisbane on June 25.
When employment minister Julia Gillard declared that the onus was on young people to 聯earn or learn聰, she forgot to mention the third option open to young Australians struggling to find a job 聴 killing people.
Bosses do not provide safe and healthy workplaces for their workers out of the goodness of their hearts. Capitalism鈥檚 drive for short-term profits means workplace safety is a cost that can cut like any other.
After Labor Premier Anna Bligh announced on June 2 that Queensland would be selling off $15.4 billion of the state聮s assets, a June 17-18 Galaxy Poll conducted for the Brisbane Courier Mail found that 84% of people opposed the move.
The following article is based on a speech by John Rice to the 1500-strong June 13 Adelaide Climate Emergency Rally. Rice is a member of the Climate Emergency Action Network (CLEAN) in South Australia.
There are few words that attract negative outbursts of emotions from Melbournians as much as the mere utterance of 鈥淐onnex鈥.
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