More than 200 people rallied on October 11, supporting former employees of liquidating company Solar Systems and calling on the federal and state governments to rescue the company鈥檚 solar power plant project in Mildura. Solar Systems went into administration after failing to find enough investors to continue the project.
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NEWCASTLE 鈥 Climate change campaigners have ridiculed the Australian Coal Association鈥檚 鈥渃ut emissions, not jobs鈥 ad campaign, announcing their own campaign 鈥渢o cut emissions, create 箩辞产蝉鈥.
An open letter to the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) and Labor MP Kelvin Thomson
The Greens released a set of 22 amendments to the Rudd Labor government鈥檚 proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) on October 12.
The following demands have been supported by a majority of the former Solar Systems employees:
SYDNEY鈥 In the early hours of October 9, the Latin American Community Centre (Casa Latina), in the Addison Road Community Centre in Marrickville, burned to the ground. All contents were destroyed. NSW police are investigating the fire but are yet to determine a cause.
South Australian Attorney General Michael Atkinson has come under fire from Indigenous leaders over his October 11 statement that a 鈥渉ard core group of repeat offenders鈥 were 鈥減ure evil鈥 and could not be rehabilitated.
The NSW town of Helensburgh, an hour south of Sydney, is now gripped by a discussion about coal and green jobs after the NSW Climate Camp held over October 9-11.
Wake up Australia. Do not trivialise the racist attitudes coming from various sectors of our society.
Capitalism: A Love StoryWritten, directed & produced by Michael MooreIn cinemas November 5
MELBOURNE 鈥 鈥淭he government wants the land because there鈥檚 uranium underneath it!鈥 Aboriginal activist Robbie Thorpe told a vibrant October 16 rally protesting against the NT intervention. He was referring to the compulsory acquisition of Aboriginal land, one of the intervention鈥檚 policies. 鈥淩acism has reared its ugly red face.鈥
91自拍论坛 Weekly is highly valued by its many international readers. Every week, Farooq Tariq and his comrades in the Labour Party Pakistan 鈥渆agerly await鈥 the arrival of this particular newspaper from far-off Australia. Pakistan is now a 鈥渉ot-spot鈥 in the US-led war against Afghanistan.
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