ITEC Employment and its related entity Community Enterprises Australia (CEA) are preparing a submission to the federal government that will argue 鈥渢he pendulum has swung too far in favour of the jobseeker鈥, in relation to changes to the Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) on Aboriginal communities, The Australian said on April 2.
CEA is the largest CDEP provider in Australia.
You could be forgiven for thinking that the pendulum swinging 鈥渢oo far in favour of the jobseeker鈥 meant, perhaps, that people were finding work.
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We now know what Washington鈥檚 model is for the Middle East, in its most attractive guise.
In answer to Egypt鈥檚 Tahrir Square uprising, they have smoking craters filled with the charred remains of rebels, conscript soldiers, civilians and other blameless people who must have seen the joy in Egypt and Tunisia and wished it for themselves.
In answer to the turbulent, democratic republic, with its tumult of leftist, Nasserist, Islamist and liberal currents, they offer a prolonged civil war at best, culminating in a settlement with Muammar Gaddafi鈥檚 son Saif and his sibling.
Tamil National Alliance (TNA) member of the Sri Lankan parliament M. A. Sumanthiran, addressed a meeting organised by the Australian Tamil Congress on March 26.
He said that even though Tamils in Sri Lanka are a nation with the right to self-determination, the formation of a separate state is not a realistic option because of the opposition of the 鈥渋nternational community鈥.
Article 1 of the United Nations charter speaks of the right of self-determination of peoples. However, in the 1960s the UN General Assembly put some restrictions on this right.
The Egyptian army has violently cracked down on pro-democracy protesters in Cairo鈥檚 Tahrir Square on the night of April 8, BBC.co.uk said the next day.
Medical sources said two protesters were killed and the health ministry said 71 were hurt.
Protesters were demanding greater changes from the interim government that took over after dictator Hosni Mubarak was overthrown in February, including demands that Mubarak be made to stand trial.
Protesters re-occupied Tahrir Square on April 9, BBC.co.uk said.
The Venezuelan government will begin a process of recovering 300,000 hectares of land during April that have been in the hands of an unnamed English company, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said in an interview during his trip to Uruguay.
Chavez said the process of taking back or 鈥渞ecovering鈥 land had been fundamental to the revolutionary process led by his government. He said this especially so that 鈥渨orker control鈥 could 鈥減revent companies from exploiting the land and workers, and getting rich and taking the earnings overseas鈥.
The Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu is reputed to have said: 鈥淚f you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.鈥
This sums up the problem we face from human-caused climate change.
A 鈥渃limate scoreboard鈥 published by Climateinteractive.org calculates the impact of the current commitments by the world鈥檚 governments to cut carbon emissions.
It estimates that if the promised emissions cuts are carried out in full, the earth would still warm by about 4掳C by 2100 鈥 far above the maximum warming of 1.5掳C needed to maintain a safe planet.
Nine Aboriginal people have sued Herald Sun columnist Andrew Bolt in Melbourne over four articles he wrote in 2009.
The court has heard the articles questioned the motives of 鈥渓ight鈥 or 鈥渨hite-skinned鈥 people who identified as Aboriginal.
The people taking the action under the Racial Vilification Act include activist Pat Eatock, former ATSIC chairperson Geoff Clark, artist Bindi Cole, academic Larissa Behrendt, author Anita Heiss, health worker Leeanne Enoch, native title expert Graham Atkinson, academic Wayne Atkinson and lawyer Mark McMillan.
Love Andrew Bolt or loathe him, you鈥檝e got to admit the right-wing Herald Sun columnist and radio shock jock is a master of the ambush interview.
Add in Liberal Party leader Tony Abbott鈥檚 slipperiness with any kind of truth 鈥 scientific, political or otherwise 鈥 and you have a media product so toxic it deserves to be trucked off for incineration by people in respirator suits.
Unfortunately, that鈥檚 the product that was all over the talkback airwaves and parliamentary reports for several days at the end of March.
If you change the names, the description of what is happening in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank would be a description of what is happening in South Africa. 鈥 South African anti-apartheid campaigner and Nobel Peace Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu, 1989
When Australian Football League player Nathan Lovett-Murray was growing up, his favourite record was 鈥淏lack Boy鈥 by Coloured Stone. 鈥淏lack boy,鈥 goes the song, 鈥渂lack boy/The colour of your skin is your pride and joy/Black boy/Black boy/Your life is not destroyed.鈥 Lovett-Murray still marvels at its power.
For more than a week, Rupert Murdoch鈥檚 The Australian has been on the warpath against green and left 鈥渆xtremists鈥. It began by attacking the NSW Greens for supporting the global boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israeli apartheid. The Greens are organised in independent parties in each state, but the Murdoch flagship demanded that Australian Greens leader Bob Brown bring its most left-wing branch into line.
BP has asked United States regulators for permission to resume drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, the New York Times said on April 3.
The request comes less than a year after the devastating oil spill in the gulf, caused by an explosion in BP鈥檚 Deepwater Horizon rig in which 11 workers died.
The NYT said: 鈥淏P is seeking permission to continue drilling at 10 existing deepwater production and development wells in the region in July in exchange for adhering to stricter safety and supervisory rules, said one of the officials.
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