The Story of Cap & Trade (below) is a fast-paced, fact-filled look at the leading climate solution being discussed at the climate talks in Copenhagen. Cap and trade is also variously described as 鈥渃arbon trading'' and 鈥渆missions trading鈥. In Australia, the federal Labor government is trying to push a variation of this through the Senate called the 鈥淐arbon Pollution Reduction Scheme鈥.
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SYDNEY 鈥 Fifty people gathered outside federal government offices on November 26 to protest the Northern Territory intervention against Aboriginal communities.
FOOTSCRAY 鈥 On November 21, more than 200 inner-west Melbourne residents rallied against state government plans to build a tunnel, freeway and truck route through residential areas.
A total lockdown was imposed on the Christmas Island detention centre for three days after fighting broke out on November 21.
Grafitti is art? I would like to take issue with the recent articles (GLW #818 and #819) claiming that graffiti is "street art" and should be accorded respect. The ugly scribbling and "tagging" that pollute just about every street corner; from
A national day of action in support of same-sex marriage rights took place on November 28.
Critics of Melbourne's public transport system are preparing to party at Flinders Street Station on December 3 to farewell the much-maligned train operator Connex.
On November 25, the federal Labor government tabled legislation in parliament to allow the extension of the policy of 鈥渨elfare quarantining鈥 to unemployed people and single parents throughout the country regardless of ethnic background.
Results of the recent elections for branch council and senior officer positions in the Australian Education Union Victoria branch were released on October 29. The incumbent union leadership was challenged by the Teachers Alliance, a rank and file group of AEU members that campaigns for an active and democratic union.
The last of the 78 Tamil refugees who had protested for more than four weeks on board the Oceanic Viking walked off the Australian customs ship moored in Indonesia on November 17. For at least a month, they will be locked up in an Indonesian detention centre. They ended their protest after the Australian government promised to resettle them.
Raising My Voice: The Extraordinary Story of the Afghan Woman Who Dares to Speak Out
By Malalai Joya
Macmillan, 2009
278 pages, $34.99 (pb)
Professor Brij Lal is a Fijian historian and is part of the Division of Pacific and Asian History at the Australian National University. He was recently expelled from Fiji by the military government for speaking out against the regime鈥檚 expulsion of Australian diplomats on November 3.
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