The problem of homelessness, high rentals and unlicensed boarding houses in Sydney鈥檚 inner west 鈥 often though of as one of the wealthier areas of Sydney 鈥 is growing, said Paul Adabie, acting director of the Newtown Neighbourhood Centre (NNC).
Adabie told 91自拍论坛 Weekly these acute housing problems faced by the most disadvantaged and vulnerable.
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The Transform Drug Policy Foundation recently informed me of , a new online research tool developed to educate people on the need for drug law reform.
Having taken her share in Fairfax Media to nearly 20%, Gina Rinehart has demanded a greater say in the workings of Fairfax, including editorial matters at its major papers The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.
Fairfax鈥檚 board has so far rejected Rinehart鈥檚 manoeuvres, saying she must first commit to signing the 鈥淔airfax Media Charter of Editorial Independence鈥, which is based on the 鈥渇undamental and longstanding principle of editorial independence鈥.
A June 27 speakout in the Bourke Street Mall called for the freeing of political prisoners in Pakistan and condemned the Pakistani state鈥檚 use of the Western-sponsored 鈥渨ar on terror鈥 as a pretext for cracking down on community activists and trade unionists. The speakout was use to collect signatures names on an international open letter.
The prosecution of two activists dubbed the 鈥淐hristmas Carol Criminals鈥 collapsed when a Perth magistrate dismissed all charges on June 29. Alex Bainbridge and Miranda Wood from the group Friends of Palestine WA (FOPWA) had been charged with trespassing during a December protest outside Israeli cosmetics company Seacret. Seacret benefits from the illegal occupation of Palestine by stealing minerals and resources from the Dead Sea to use in its products.
June 29 was dubbed "Black Friday" for Queensland public servants as up to 3000 temporary and contract workers faced the sack from the Liberal-National Party government.
Contracts for many staff in "non-frontline" jobs expired and will not be renewed under a job freeze ordered by Premier Campbell Newman, the June 29 Courier-Mail said.
Newman has also appointed a razor gang, following the interim report of the Costello Commission of Audit into state debt, to find more cuts, including jobs of permanent staff.
鈥淲hether I look at manufacturing, or I look at the climate emergency, it鈥檚 our generations, the ones alive now, that have a responsibility," said Dave Kerin, a founder of the Earthworker Cooperative, explaining the driving force behind the group鈥檚 key project.
Since the deaths of asylum seekers when two boats headed to Australia capsized, parliament has been locked in a debate about how to 鈥渟ave lives鈥. But the 鈥渄ebate鈥 is framed in such a way to ensure that more lives will be lost and more refugees victimised. ALP and Coalition MPs are pushing a policy of refugee 鈥渄eterrence鈥 designed to simply move refugees somewhere else.
On June 22, a boat carrying about 200 refugees capsized on its way to Christmas Island. Another vessel capsized on June 28. So far, reports say at least 91 refugees have drowned and others are still missing.
The Steve Irwin Reserve on far north Queensland鈥檚 rugged Cape York faces the threat of mining, under new moves to water down the previous Bligh Labor government鈥檚 Wild Rivers law.
Liberal National Party state environment minister , which is expected to replace Wild Rivers laws on at least four far-north wilderness rivers.
Stop CSG campaigners in the Illawarra are celebrating the NSW government鈥檚 confirmation that coal seam gas drilling cannot take place in the Illawarra at this time. spokesperson Jess Moore told WIN TV News on June 25: 鈥淭his is huge news and shows the power the Illawarra community has to affect change.鈥
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A team of three experienced Socialist Alliance activists will stand in Marrickville Council鈥檚 north ward at the upcoming elections.
Socialist Alliance, which is contesting the elections on a platform of Power to the People, is a social justice and ecological party.
鈥淐ouncils should be extensions of the community鈥, said lead candidate Pip Hinman.
About 200 people met on June 28 on the steps of Parliament House in Victoria to oppose new coal projects in the state.
Speakers spoke out against expanding the brown coal export industry, which would triple Victoria's contribution to greenhouse gas pollution.
The star of the event was 鈥渂illionaire鈥 Twiggy Palmcock, representing 鈥渢he forgotten voices of mining magnates鈥.
He said all coal is good coal, and offered to dig coal mines in a bowl shape for the 鈥淕reenie farmers from Bacchus Marsh鈥.
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