People of the world, freedom is under attack! And as shocking as it might seem, this threat to liberty is emerging from within the 鈥淟and of the Free鈥 itself.
Yes, there was actually a bill put to US Congress that sought to increase the background checks on individuals seeking to buy semi-automatic rifles of the sort that Sandy Hook mass murderer Adam Lanza used to gun down 20 children in December.
964
About 50 people attended a community safety forum organised by Moreland City Council on April 24.
The forum was organised as part of the debate about how to make the streets safer following the murder of Jill Meagher last year.
The state government鈥檚 proposal to fund installation of CCTV cameras on Moreland streets was controversial. It was strongly advocated by Moreland Mayor Oscar Yildiz, and supported by federal Labor MP Kelvin Thomson and state Labor MP Jane Garrett.
Economic forecasting agency BIS Shrapnel has reported that engineering work, spurred on by the mining boom, would be about $128 billion in Australia this financial year. It may be easy to suggest that, despite the rumours, the mining boom is set to continue long into the future. However, the report was quite downbeat. ABC Online said BIS Shrapnel predicted that a "slowdown in mining investment and its related infrastructure is expected to reduce activity by 5.4% next financial year 鈥 engineering construction will be 20% below this year's peak by 2016-2017."
Rapper Caper slams the Native Title Act as a "white bible" on his latest release. The Narungga emcee has worked as a Native Title field officer in South Australia for the past 10 years.
Moreland Council is proposing to install more CCTV cameras in response to concerns about safety after the murder of Jill Meagher last year. The expansion of CCTV cameras, already a civil liberties concern, would do little to make women safer on the streets at night.
Years of campaigning and mass protest have culminated in another round of victories for the worldwide movement for equal marriage rights. In the past month, a further three countries have voted to allow people of the same sex to marry.
A vote in Uruguay鈥檚 parliament on April 11 made it the second country in Latin America to allow marriage equality, joining Argentina, which changed its law in 2010.
New Zealand鈥檚 parliament was the site of a moving scene on April 17 when galleries packed with supporters burst into song as the parliament passed the Marriage Amendment Bill.
The Darwin Asylum Seeker Support and Advocacy Network released the statement below on April 30, in response to apparent plans to move children and women to high-security detention centres in Australia鈥檚 north and north-west.
Social justice and anti-deaths in custody organisations around Australia formed a new national coalition on February 10.
The new group will allow for national actions to be organised when a death in custody occurs that requires a national response and coordinated action.
The organisations involved include the Indigenous Social Justice Association and the Deaths in Custody Watch committee.
Groups in other states and territories have expressed interest in joining the coalition.
Anyone who reads 91自拍论坛 Weekly would probably know Bernie Rosen was an inexhaustible letter writer and so it seems fitting to compose one in his honour.
Although it should be said that Bernie鈥檚 emphasis on letters later in his life was no doubt in part because his other favoured forms of political campaigning, such as door-to-door canvassing, newspaper distribution and public oration, were less and less physically possible for him. Letters were his way of engaging in the class struggle until the very end of his 88 years.
Presentation by Gaye Page-Burt to the January 31 Sustainable Transport Forum in the Fremantle Town Hall.
In an article in the on April 20, Adam Creighton asserted that: 鈥淭eachers鈥 unions in Australia and worldwide have been astonishingly successful at hoodwinking the public into thinking smaller classes matter.鈥
As a teacher with over 30 years鈥 experience and a member of the Australian Education Union, I can say articles such as that display ignorance about what it is really like to be a teacher in front of a class.
Austerity almost seems like the defining feature of politics today. Across Europe and the US, crippling cuts to education, health care and welfare budgets are driving millions further into poverty.
Even in Australia, where our economy has been spared the worst of the financial crisis, both big parties are raising taxes on ordinary people and applying cuts to welfare and education.
Last year, cuts to courses and staff at several universities, including Sydney University and La Trobe University, led to strong campaigns by staff and students to defend their education and jobs.
- Previous page
- Page 3
- Next page