The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) could have been a flagship policy that restored dignity to people with disabilities. Instead, ALP timidity and Coalition intransigence have left Australia with a woefully inadequate policy.
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On July evenings, most people in Toronto are just trying to find ways to escape the heat and humidity. On July 30, more 150 people filled the room for a meeting on Contested Futures: Tar Sands and Environmental Justice.
Many had to sit on tables or stand to hear from two indigenous leaders of environmental justice actions in Ontario and two delegates to the People鈥檚 Summit Rio +20.
The meeting was initiated by the Greater Toronto Workers Assembly (International Solidarity Committee) and Toronto Bolivia Solidarity; a further 20 groups endorsed and helped build the event.
The University of Sydney Student Representative Council (SRC) has condemned university management鈥檚 plans to 鈥渄ismantle鈥 the Koori Centre, which has supported Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students at the university since 1989.
The Koori Centre also coordinates the teaching of Indigenous Studies.
The university says the Koori Centre鈥檚 functions will be incorporated into a broader 鈥淐entre for Cultural Competencies鈥. Management has assured staff no jobs will be lost in the process, but many students and staff feel that have been inadequately consulted about the changes.
As a child, David Cromwell got an invaluable insight into the way the corporate media skews the news. Scattered around his family's Scottish home were "mainstream" newspapers like the Daily Record and Glasgow Herald.
Deported Tamil Dayan Anthony's recanted claims of torture at a Sri Lankan press conference, the day after his July 25 deportation, did not assuage the fears of Australian refugee advocates that Tamils face severe danger if returned.
A whopping 22 million passengers went through Sydney Domestic Airport last year 鈥 close to the total population of Australia.
Almost 8 million of those were heading to Victoria, and close to 4.5 million to Brisbane. Just over 2 million were off to the Gold Coast, and just under that figure to WA.
In the debate over the environmental and human impact of a second airport in NSW and the push to expand Mascot, it is important to weigh these facts.
In the space of a decade, Australia鈥檚 mining sector has come to dominate the country鈥檚 economic life. In June, Reserve Bank governor to 鈥渂e about as large as business investment in the rest of the private economy combined鈥 by mid 2014.
Workers on Bovis Lend Lease building sites across the country have won site allowances and improved pay and conditions. Union and community action forced the company to complete negotiations on a new enterprise bargaining agreement (EBA) with unions on July 31.
Strikes and protest action across 22 Lend Lease sites were launched on July 25, after the company failed to reach agreement with unions on conditions including restored site allowances, improved job security, improved pay and conditions for subcontractors, and union right of entry.
As semester two begins at the University of Sydney, it鈥檚 worth reflecting on what student activists have learned so far in our campaigns this year.
We've learned that our university is being managed in line with the profits-first agenda of the 1% that run the government and the economy. We've learned that under Vice-Chancellor Michael Spence, corporate research partners and 鈥済ood economic management鈥 take priority over students, staff and society.
Queensland鈥檚 Liberal National Party government axed 2000 state transport jobs and more than 300 QBuild jobs on July 31, in another day of mass sackings in the state.
Premier Campbell Newman boasted that 4400 full-time positions have been cut out of the 6000 jobs lost so far. Up to 20,000 public servants are in the firing line.
The latest cuts amount to 1 in 5 transport workers, with Labor transport spokesperson Jackie Trad warning such cuts would 鈥渂ring the public transport network in Brisbane and in every region to its knees鈥.
Student activists at La Trobe University have begun a campaign against a proposal to slash funding to the Humanities and Social Sciences faculty.
About 150 students and staff protested at the university鈥檚 Bundoora campus in Melbourne鈥檚 northern suburbs on July 31. Students marched to the administration building where security guards wrestled with a protester and locked the students out.
Undeterred, students marched to the office of Humanities and Social Science dean Tim Murray where they were also locked out but occupied the corridor outside the office.
Security forces killed 12 anti-government protesters 鈥 mostly teenagers 鈥 and injured more than 80 on July 31 in Nyala, the capital of South Darfur. The protests, which began the previous day, were launched by hundreds of primary and secondary school students in opposition to price rises for basic goods. Numbers swelled as more and more people took to the streets to join the students, calling for the downfall of the regime.
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