On January 25, newly announced Australian of the Year and youth mental health expert Patrick McGorry said refugee detention centres were 鈥渇actories for producing mental illness鈥.
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Climate change minister Penny Wong has announced a target of a 5% cut in Australia鈥檚 carbon emissions by 2020, relative to emissions in 2000.
On July 14, 2009, the Alyawarr people from Ampilatwatja, three hours鈥 north-west of Alice Springs, walked off their community and set up a protest camp on their traditional homelands.
The letter from Clare Sambrook last week on the detention of children (GLW #823) mistakenly said the writer was from Scotland. She is in fact from England. Scotland has, in fact, stopped detaining children and Scots Parliament is doing a good job
The actions of loan shark Sam Tomarchio, revealed on January 15 by the Australian, do not justify the expansion of 鈥渨elfare quarantining鈥 to the Aboriginal people affected.
91自拍论坛 Weekly has a long and proud tradition of covering the many struggles for justice waged by Aboriginal people and their supporters. This has especially been the case since the Northern Territory intervention was introduced, with GLW journalists making trips to Central Australia to make contact with, and report on, the communities resisting the paternalistic policies.
Seafarers in the offshore oil and gas industry, members of the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA), are on the verge of winning historic improvements to their pay and working conditions, including a 30% pay rise and construction allowances that would give them parity with other workers involved in the construction phase of oil and gas projects.
Federal Labor鈥檚 workplace relations minister Julia Gillard and Western Australian Liberal Premier Colin Barnett joined forces last week, demanding striking Pluto project workers return to work.
The slow initial response from Australian aid agencies to the horrific Haiti earthquake prompted me to organise some on-the-job fundraising for the victims. The not-for-profit organisation I work for deals with homelessness I thought the people I work with would identify with the plight of the Haitians.
The following is a joint statement by Asian left organisations in solidarity with the people of Haiti. To add your organisation鈥檚 support, email international@prp-indonesia.org.
The Australian Greens announced an 鈥渋nterim carbon price proposal鈥 on January 21, whereby carbon would be taxed essentially within the framework of the federal Labor government鈥檚 proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS).
In the lead-up to 鈥淎ustralia Day鈥 on January 26, former TV host Ray Martin restarted a debate about the need to change the Australian flag.
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