On March 18, the federal government managed to pass its new youth allowance scheme through the Senate. The government鈥檚 main aim was to tighten eligibility requirements for students getting youth allowance, so that young people now have to work an average of 30 hours a week for 18 months before qualifying for the benefit.
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搁别蝉颈蝉迟补苍肠别鈥檚 Zane Alcorn spoke to Matthew Wright, a climate and energy campaigner from Beyond Zero Emissions. Wright is speaking at the Resistance 2010: the World can鈥檛 Wait! national conference, which will be held in Wollongong from April 24-26.
Indigenous and trade union activist Chicka 鈥淭he Fox鈥 Dixon (1928-2010), was farewelled by more than 1000 people in a state funeral in Sydney Town Hall on March 31.
Albert Einstein defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. It has taken capitalism about 250 years to generate enough waste and pollution to press dangerously against nature鈥檚 limits. With such a damning record, there should be no grounds to expect a different outcome in the future.
This Is What We Said: Australian Aboriginal People Give Their Views on the Northern Territory Intervention.
Compiled & published by 鈥榗oncerned Australians鈥
71 pages, hard cover with Aboriginal cover design, $15
Outraged by the six Aboriginal deaths in custody this year, the Indigenous Social Justice Association (ISJA) organised a public meeting at the Redfern Community Centre on April 9 to tell the stories and call for justice.
On Saturday April 3, a fully laden bulk carrier ran aground on Douglas Shoal off Rockhampton, Queensland, producing an oil spill threatening the Great Barrier Reef. The Shen Neng 1, carrying about 65,000 tonnes of coal to China, leaked about two tonnes of oil onto the reef before being contained.
The following was released on April 10 by the Socialist Party of Malaysia (PSM), Working People's Association (PRP) of Indonesia, People鈥檚 Democratic Party (PRD) of Indonesia, Turn Left Thailand, Partido Lakas ng Masa (PLM) of the Philippines, Socialist Alliance of Australia
The federal Labor government announced a moratorium on processing claims for asylum for people coming from Sri Lanka or Afghanistan on April 9.
As the Liberal-National Coalition strives to make 鈥渂order control鈥 a vote-changing issue and the Rudd-ALP government continues to claim its approach is best at keeping the 鈥減eople smugglers鈥 and the 鈥渜ueue-jumpers鈥 under control, do we face the dark prospect of another refugee-bashing federal election?
鈥淗ow long must we stay like this, don鈥檛 they realise our hardship?鈥, a Tamil detainee in the Christmas Island detention centre asked when he called 91自拍论坛 Weekly on April 8.
The following is abridged from an April 7 press release on behalf of Alyawarr walk-off spokesperson Richard Downs and senior Pitjantjatjara elder Murray George.
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