This is an extract from a zine written by . You can pick up a copy from a Resistance stall on campus during Orientation week.
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Like any other day, a female student is on her way to campus. As she rides her bike down the main road, a head pops out a moving car window and yells out to her: 鈥淣ice legs!鈥 Later that day she receives a text from one of the men in her group assessment task who she barely knows: 鈥淗ey beautiful we should definitely have a beer sometime ;)鈥.
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The Gillard government鈥檚 mining tax has raised just $126 million in its first six months, a tiny amount compared to the $2 billion it was expected to generate.
Out of this only $88 million will actually benefit the federal budget, as companies who pay the mining tax pay less company tax.
To put this in context, the government recently cut $700 million from welfare that was paid to single parents.
鈥淓nough is enough,鈥 warned taken out by the Mineral Council of Australia in the February 13 Australian, 鈥渋n relation to the obsession with increasing taxes on mining in Australia."
It was like an exasperated parent pushed too far by a naughty child. 鈥淓nough! Go back to playing with your toys. What about the welfare recipients? You love kicking them! Go on, leave us adults alone!鈥
Federal environment minister Tony Burke has rejected National Heritage listing for the Tarkine wilderness.
On February 8, Burke announced 10 new mines proposed over the next five years for the Tarkine wilderness area. Nine of these 10 mines will be open cut leaving scars of devastation in an area of north-western Tasmania.
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My memories of Bill Gluyas are mostly from Union Solidarity picket lines. It did not matter how early a picket line started or how far away it was, Bill was always there.
What many people who supported those picket lines didn鈥檛 know is that Bill funded much of the Union Solidarity infrastructure 鈥 the picket line BBQ and the PA system. Bill didn鈥檛 like the limelight and didn鈥檛 want thanks. He just wanted to know that he was helping workers fight for their rights.
Northern Territory Chief Minister Terry Mills announced a deal on February 8 to secure power for the Nhulunbuy bauxite mine and alumina refinery. The deal was hailed as saving the community through protecting the industry that provides it with half its jobs.
But the decision has disastrous environmental impacts and shows the lack of choices available to remote communities under the logic of the mining market. To survive, communities are asked to provide public funds to private companies to perform environmentally damaging activity.
Searching for Sugarman Directed by Malik Bendjelloul Starring Rodriguez, Malik Bendjelloul Music by Rodriguez Now showing at selected cinemas Director Mike Malik Bendjelloul鈥檚 film Searching for Sugarman, which has been nominated for best documentary film at this year鈥檚 Oscars and the British Film and Television Awards, traces the efforts of two South African fans to find out what happened to the mysterious Mexican-American folksinger known as Rodriguez.
Last December, I stood with supporters of WikiLeaks and Julian Assange in the bitter cold outside the Ecuadorean embassy in London. Candles were lit; the faces were young and old and from all over the world.
They were there to demonstrate their human solidarity with someone whose guts they admired. They were in no doubt about the importance of what Assange had revealed and achieved, and the grave dangers he now faced. Absent entirely were the lies, spite, jealousy, opportunism and pathetic animus of a few who claim the right to guard the limits of informed public debate.
In mid 2012 the Australian government deported Sri Lankan asylum seeker Dayan Anthony back to Colombo despite the wider community, lawyers and refugee advocates mounting a compelling case to show that his claims of torture in Sri Lanka were justified. Anthony became the first Tamil deported back to Sri Lanka where it is claimed he now lives in fear and under virtual house arrest.
More than 500 unionists, mainly Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) and Builders Labourers Federation (BLF) members, rallied outside the Brisbane Magistrates Court on February 11 in support of long-term union and community activist, Bob Carnegie.
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In a published on February 13, South African Nobel Peace Prize laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu challenged the hypocrisy of the US and its citizens for accepting a killer drone program when it pertains to foreign suspects while demanding judicial review when those targets are American citizens.
About 400 people rallied outside NT parliament聽on February 12, the first sitting day for 2013, to protest the Country Liberal Party's (CLP) service cuts, job losses and price hikes.
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The CLP came to power in August, promising to decrease the deficit but pledging 聽"Your job is safe" to concerned public servants. By December, when the government's mini-budget was released, that promise was broken and it was revealed that 600 jobs would be scrapped.
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