On October 6, BHP Billiton and the South Australian Department for Correctional Services announced a new agreement allowing the company to employ prisoners from Port Augusta at Olympic Dam 鈥 the world鈥檚 biggest uranium mine.
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Could the government鈥檚 proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) get any worse? The unfortunate answer is yes. It can, it has already and it鈥檚 likely to get worse still before parliament ends for the year.
Justine Kamprad is a co-convenor of the Fremantle Socialist Alliance, and was the campaign director for the October 17 Fremantle City Council elections, in which socialist Sam Wainwright was elected with 33.44% of the vote.
As reported in 91自拍论坛 Weekly previously, the ALP New South Wales government has tabled new anti-graffiti laws. The proposed law will punish children caught with spray-paint cans without a 鈥渓egitimate reason鈥 with up to six months jail.
About 70% of TAFE teachers walked off the job on November 19 as part of a branch-organised wildcat strike.
For environmentalists, Indigenous rights activists, feminists, socialists and all progressive people, Latin America is a source of hope and inspiration today. The people of Venezuela, Cuba, Bolivia, Ecuador and El Salvador, among others, are showing that radical social change is possible and a better, more just society can be imagined and built.
On November 18, 200 people rallied outside the Western Australian parliament to protest against the introduction of genetically modified crops. The state government will decide next year whether to permanently lift the ban on GM crops.
Women and men have been picketing events at which Queensland Premier Anna Bligh speaks. They are protesting against Bligh鈥檚 refusal to have her attorney-general drop criminal charges against a Cairns couple for allegedly procuring an abortion.
There鈥檚 a Riot Going On: Revolutionaries, Rock Stars & the Rise and Fall of 鈥60s Counter-Culture
By Peter Doggett
Canongate, 2008
598 pages, $29.95 (pb)
Adelaide's Central Bus Station is an austere but pleasing building built recently near the middle of town. No longer merely for coach travellers, the structure is now to be Adelaide's version of the New Orleans Superdome 鈥 a place of public refuge from what threatens, in time, to be another full-scale natural catastrophe.
Were it not so outrageous, it could almost be funny. A 12-year-old Aboriginal boy was brought before a Western Australian court on a charge of receiving stolen goods. He had accepted a chocolate Freddo Frog worth 70 cents from a friend who had allegedly stolen it.
The Australian Human Rights Commission has condemned income management 鈥 a key plank of the Northern Territory intervention 鈥 as racist, in a report released on November 13.
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