The public wants meaningful action to address climate change. The 2010 annual Lowy poll found that 86% of Australians support climate action. Forty-six percent said they supported strong action and a further 40% supported gradual steps.
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The Refugee Art Project鈥檚 Fear+Hope exhibition鈥檚 opened at Sydney鈥檚 Mori Gallery on June 20, during International Refugee Week. The exhibition showcased 20 refugee artists from Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Iraq, and Iran, the Kurdish regions of the Middle East, Pakistan, Nigeria and Indonesia.
All of the artists produced their art locked up in Australia鈥檚 detention centres. Only three of the artists were released to be at their exhibition opening.
Feeling the heat from opposition leader Tony Abbott鈥檚 scare campaign against the government鈥檚 planned carbon price, that she 鈥渘ever meant to mislead anybody during the last election campaign about carbon pricing鈥.
This was a reference to her promise 鈥 made days before the 2010 election 鈥 that a Labor government would not set up a carbon tax.
More than 100,000 people have been displaced and countless numbers killed in the north Sudanese government鈥檚 latest offensive in the region bordering south Sudan.
South Sudan is set to formalise its secession on July 9 after a near-unanimous vote for independence in the January referendum.
US man robs store to get health care in prison
鈥淎 North Carolina man robbed a local store for a dollar just so he could get health care in prison, he said.
鈥淛ames Verone, 59, handed the teller a note demanding $1 and claimed he had a gun 鈥 He then walked away and sat down, waiting for police.
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鈥淸He said:] 'I wanted to make it known that this wasn't for monetary reasons, but for medical reasons.'
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More than 1,000 people gathered on June 19 to protest mandatory detention and the Gillard government鈥檚 highly contentious asylum seeker swap deal with Malaysia 鈥撯 under which Australia would exchange 4,000 processed and confirmed refugees from Malaysia for 800 unconfirmed asylum seekers from Australia.
The crowd gathered at the Royal Exhibition Buildings in Carlton Gardens to hear speakers before marching to join the Emerge Festival at Fitzroy Town Hall. Speakers included Greens MP Adam Bandt, Julian Burnside QC, and several refugees.
On June 22, the federal government announced a six-week consulting period before creating new laws to continue the Northern Territory intervention. Prime Minister Julia Gillard 鈥渓eft no doubt that abolishing the intervention was not on the agenda鈥, said the June 23 Australian.
The statement below, titled Rebuilding From the Ground Up 鈥 an Alternative to the Northern Territory Intervention, was officially launched at the Prescribed Area People鈥檚 Alliance conference in Darwin on June 21.
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The NT intervention has been a disaster for Aboriginal communities.
I am a Rohingya Burmese refugee asylum seeker in Australia and I left Burma since the end of 1999 for certain circumstances based on race, political and systematic oppression.
The message below was sent on June 20 鈥 World Refugee Day 鈥 from an asylum seeker named Jaffer. Jaffer is held in Curtin detention centre in Western Australia.
In the biggest refugee rights demonstration in Australia in years, more than a thousand people marched through the Sydney CBD on June 19 to mark World Refugee Day and to demand that the Gillard Labor government end mandatory detention of refugees arriving by boat and abandon its plan to deport refugees to Malaysia and other offshore refugee processing centres.
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