The number of 鈥淗igh Net Worth Individuals鈥 (HNWIs) in Australia 鈥 those with more than US$1 million in investable assets, excluding the family home 鈥 soared to 173,600 last year. This, according to the latest World Wealth Report, was an increase of 34.4% on the year before.
The June 30 Sunshine Coast Daily said: 鈥淲hat's more impressive is Australia's ranking in the global population of HNWIs. Out of 71 countries, Australia has the 10th biggest population of HNWIs in the world, in front of Brazil and just behind that millionaire's paradise of Switzerland.鈥
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While G20 leaders barely made mention of the climate crisis at the June 26-27 G20 summit in Toronto, Pablo Solon, Bolivia鈥檚 United Nations ambassador, was in town to encourage action on the 鈥淐ochabamba protocols鈥.
It is no surprise that Solon, also Bolivia鈥檚 chief climate negotiator, was not on the list of special invitees to G20 meetings. In April, Solon and the Bolivian government he represents organised the World People鈥檚 Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth in Cochabamba.
The detention of about 150 asylum seekers in a disused mining camp at Leonora, near Kalgoorlie in remote Western Australia, is a return to the dark days of previous Coalition prime minister John Howard.
Under Howard, asylum seekers were detained at a disused defence department shooting range at Woomera in South Australia. Both cases involve refugees being detained at remote prison camps and only allowed out accompanied by detention centre staff.
National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) members at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) began industrial action on June 30 to pressure management to reach agreement with the union on a range of claims. They want reinstatement of job security protections for contract research staff; improved conditions for casual and fixed-term staff; Indigenous employment targets and an increase in paid parental leave from 26 to 36 weeks.
25 intrepid activists left on July 2 for Alice Springs as part of a Justice Ride to show solidarity with Aboriginal people fighting against the NT intervention. They will take part in the Defending Indigenous Rights: Land Law Culture convergence in Alice Springs from July 6 to 9.
On July 2, 100 people rallied at St Georges Terrace in response to the Western Australian Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP)鈥檚 decision not to lay criminal charges against the two guards involved in the death of Mr Ward.
The emergency action was called by the Deaths in Custody Watch Committee and was addressed by Marianne Mackay and Marc Newhouse from DICWC.
Some wore T-shirts that read: 鈥淲hat Eddie Mabo was to Native Title, let Mr Ward be to the justice system.鈥
Pip Hinman is running in the Australian federal election 2010 for the lower house seat of Grayndler.
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