on August 24.
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The Refugee Action Coalition has welcomed the government鈥檚 announcement to immediately increase Australia鈥檚 refugee intake to 20,000. But the government could and should have increased the intake without re-opening Nauru.
鈥淭he bitter pill of violating refugee rights on Nauru is not going to be sweetened by increasing Australia鈥檚 overall intake,鈥 said Ian Rintoul, spokesperson for the Refugee Action Coalition.
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Regional communities are furious at . Last year,
Local councils say the 126 job cuts in Townsville and 116 job cuts at Lismore will devastate communities there.
Five words sum up federal opposition leader Tony Abbott's response to some sharp questions put to him by journalist Leigh Sales in the August 22 episode of ABC TV's 7.30: Liar, liar, pants on fire!
If you need a good example of a person with a chronic disposition to lie, this is it. Read the , then imagine the same interview 鈥 except conducted after Abbott was given a dose of truth serum.
Perhaps it would go something like this.
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The independent Gonski review, commissioned by the federal government into school funding, was released in February. It concluded that Australia is investing far too little in education and that in our wealthy country there are many schools that are underprivileged.
It also concluded that our education system is not fair 鈥 that our school system is stacked against the disadvantaged, while it gives the most privileged the most advantages.
In response to attacks on jobs and services by the Barry O鈥橣arrell Coalition NSW government, Unions NSW is launching Local Union and Community Councils (LUCCs) across the state. Many of these groups are based upon networks established during the Your Rights At Work campaign in 2007.
LUCCs have been set up in more than a dozen regional and metropolitan locations, and several groups are having their inaugural meetings over the coming weeks (see below
for details).
The campaign against the Liberal National Party Queensland government鈥檚 public sector cuts and suppression of alternative views is gathering momentum in the state鈥檚 Far North region.
Sydney City Greens councillor Irene Doutney is a fighter. She鈥檚 a public housing tenant and knows a thing or two about the dispossessed and disadvantaged. She is part of a rich council that sprawls from Millers鈥 Point in the north and Annandale in the West to Moore Park in the east to St Peters in the south. It also includes the much poorer neighbourhoods of Woolloomooloo, Redfern, Zetland and Rosebery.
The attacks on tertiary education around Australia continue to escalate. The University of Wollongong has announced it would reduce the current 11 faculties into five 鈥渟uper-faculties鈥 aimed at putting the university in the 鈥渢op 1%鈥 of global institutions.
and released the statement below on August 24.
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While it is a vindication of the community鈥檚 concerns about the harmful impacts of coal seam gas mining, today鈥檚 announcement by the Baillieu Government of a moratorium on coal seam gas fracking is inadequate to protect Victoria from the negative impacts of coal seam gas development.
brings together feminists from different backgrounds. It holds regular meetings and forums on issues relating to women in Australia today. The collective held a forum on reproductive rights last month, which focussed on the current legislation concerning abortion in South Australia. Abortion is still on the criminal code in South Australia.
Has the internet turned activists into "slacktivists"? It's just one of the questions posed on Smokey鈥檚 Haunt, the new album by the persistently provocative Urthboy.
The personal saga of WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange has been used to overshadow the ground-breaking journalism of WikiLeaks in exposing the secrets of governments and corporations around the world.
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