The opening session of the new parliament in Canberra next month will be met by a national convergence of refugee rights activists and campaigners.
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How could a former agent of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet鈥檚 notorious secret police, who is facing charges of kidnapping and forced disappearances and whose bail conditions prohibited them from leaving Chile, now be living in Australia?
This is the question many have asked after the recent broadcast on SBS Radio of an interview with former National Intelligence Directorate (DINA) agent Adriana Rivas.
In the interview, Rivas says she began working at DINA in 1974.
New regulations restrict coal seam gas (CSG) companies from residential housing areas in NSW, but do little to protect the rural landscape.
With Tony Abbott ruling the roost in Canberra, it is important for the climate movement in Australia to take stock and have a discussion about where to go next.
It is easy to be discouraged by the election of Abbott. However, it should not be forgotten that the election was more than just a 鈥渞eferendum on the carbon tax鈥, it was also an electoral snapshot of a country that has been subjected to an exceptionally strong barrage of brainwashing for the past few years. The ideas spread through the media are powerful, but they are not invincible.
A student general meeting was held at the Bankstown campus of the University of Western Sydney on October 8, as part of the student campaign against the federal government鈥檚 $2.7 billion funding cuts to universities across Australia.
The Peruvian government has renewed its commitment to several controversial mining mega-projects. The projects have provoked huge regional protests against the environmentally destructive expansion plans of foreign mining corporations.
Speaking at a mining industry conference held in the southern city of Arequipa on September 16, Minister of Energy and Mines Jorge Merino indicated that Conga (in Cajamarca), Tia Maria (in Arequipa) and Corani (in Puno) will be developed with the backing of President Ollanta Humala's administration.
Sydney鈥檚 Refugee Action Coalition released the statement below on October 12.
Bolivia's President Evo Morales issued a government decree on October 7 that allows workers to establish 鈥渟ocial enterprises鈥 in businesses that are bankrupt, winding up, unjustifiably closed or abandoned.
These enterprises, while private, will be operated by the workers and qualify for government assistance.
A socialist educational conference, 鈥淗ow to make a revolution鈥, is being held in Brisbane over December 13 to 15. This conference is being organised by Resistance Socialist Youth and the Socialist Alliance, and aims to be an event that gives young people the skills and perspectives to radically change the world.
鈥淲e'll pretend we've stopped the boats and the conditions under which we pretend they've stopped,鈥 seems to be the motto of Prime Minister Tony Abbott's government.
When the global financial crisis (GFC) unfolded in 2008, the unemployment rate for 15 to 19-year-olds looking for full-time work in Australia increased from 15% to 25%. It has remained at this level ever since.
In July, it stood at 25.5%. However, in the 10 areas listed by the Department of Human Services as the most disadvantaged in the country, the youth unemployment rate is more than 40%.
The proposed the East West tunnel in Melbourne鈥檚 inner north will be environmentally, socially and economically disastrous. It is not a solution to the problem of congestion on Melbourne鈥檚 Eastern freeway.
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