A bill attacking the rights of NSW public sector workers pushed by the O鈥橣arrell Coalition government are set to pass through the upper house on June 14, with the support of Fred Nile鈥檚 Christian Democrats and the Shooters Party.
It can then be put through the Liberal dominated lower house on June 15.
The anti-union bill is a draconian measure. If passed, it will give the state government the power to unilaterally set the wages and conditions of public sector workers.
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Melbourne's largest feminist conference in more than a decade, the Feminist Futures Conference, took place over May 28-29.
The conference was organised by the newly-formed Melbourne Feminist Collective (MFC), a group of mainly young activists who were inspired by a similar conference they attended in Sydney last year.
In the lead-up to the conference, a debate between the radical feminist supporters of Melbourne lecturer Sheila Jeffreys and the sex worker supporters of Elena Jeffreys broke out on the conference blogsite.
More than 500 community services workers rallied in Nundah Memorial Park near the electorate office of federal Treasurer Wayne Swan on June 8. It was part of a national day of action calling for full government funding for fair wages for community Services workers.
"Since May 15, tens of thousands of young Spaniards calling themselves los indignados (the indignant) have been camping out in at least 80 city centres and towns, and are protesting daily," Socialist Alliance activist Liam Flenady told a June 7 91自拍论坛 Weekly forum.
鈥淭he movement goes under various names: 隆Democracia Real Ya! (Real Democracy Now!), 15-M and even The Spanish Revolution, and its initial call was: 鈥楻eal democracy now. We are not merchandise in the hands of the politicians and bankers!鈥."
The Victorian government has proposed a new law that will allow police to give on-the-spot fines for 鈥渋ndecent, offensive or disorderly language鈥.
In response, a protest has been organised at 2pm, June 25 at Melbourne鈥檚 Flinders St Station. By June 11, more than 10,000 people had said on that they would attend the 鈥淔uckwalk鈥.
Below, protest organisers explain the politics behind Fuckwalk.
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About 5000 people walked across Canberra鈥檚 Commonwealth Bridge and rallied in front of Parliament House on June 5, calling for real action on climate change now. Up to 45,000 people rallied nationwide.
Speakers at the Canberra rally included former Liberals Leader John Hewson, Richard Denniss from the Australia Institute, 2010 Greens Senate candidate Lin Hatfield Dodds and Bishop Pat Power.
Hewson said we needed to respond to climate change with a greater sense of urgency and in a way that recognised the magnitude of the problem.
Under the guidance of the NSW Coal and Coal Seam Gas Strategy, the CSG industry is set to grow. Economic growth and the move towards a low-carbon economy are suggested as a just cause for its expansion.
In spite of this, a swell of media reports, documentaries and scientific studies have revealed that CSG鈥檚 growth will come with substantial socio-economic and environmental costs.
The recent figures on CO2 emissions are sobering. Despite the fact that the world has suffered a terrible recession, emissions are still rising.
In essence, all the efforts to tackle climate change have simply slowed the rise a little rather than reverse it.
The problem is that the solutions to climate change put forward at international conferences like Copenhagen and Cancun dare not deal with the real root cause of climate change 鈥 our current economic system.
The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) organised a 鈥渟ave solar鈥 rally in Newcastle on June 6. The rally was at the office of Liberal MLA Tim Owen and was the latest in a string of protests calling for planned retrospective cuts to NSW鈥檚 solar bonus scheme to be abandoned.
The rally attracted about 250 people and included many solar industry workers.
SEIA representative Chanti Richardson chaired the rally and introduced Solar Newcastle (SN) director Adam Dalby.
Australian climate scientists and researchers are subject to a rising level of hate mail, abuse and death threats from climate change deniers.
More than 30 the June 4 Canberra Times 鈥渢hey are receiving a stream of abusive emails threatening violence, sexual assault, public smear campaigns and attacks on family members鈥.
Since March 2009, it has been unclear whether promising footballer Rex Bellotti Junior will need to have his leg amputated after he was run over by a police four wheel drive in Albany, Western Australia.
The Indigenous boy, then 15, was leaving a wake when the police vehicle, driving on the wrong side of the road, struck him with sufficient force to drag him under the van, breaking his right femur and inflicting lacerations to his legs.
Ten years of Western military occupation and war in Afghanistan has killed hundreds of thousands of people (mostly Afghan civilians), created millions of refugees and paid of 鈥渁id鈥 into the hands of brutal warlords who serve as a puppet regime for the occupiers.
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