Australia

An extraordinary meeting of Woolworths shareholders to fight problem gambling

Submitted by Diet Simon on Tue, 26/06/2012 - 6:26pm

GetUp members are embarking on a completely new kind of campaign. This posting is a little longer than usual, but please bear with us so we can explain what you need to know about this new strategy, and how you can help.

Today, for the first time, hundreds of GetUp members have come together to use their shareholder power to call an Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) of a top 20 ASX company: Woolworths Ltd. An EGM is a meeting of a company's shareholders; just like an Annual General Meeting, but held at an irregular time.

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Australia

The Wrong Method mp3

Submitted by huxwell on Mon, 25/06/2012 - 10:23am

http://www.radio4all.net/responder.php/download/61000/67957/81373/?url=h...

Collage about the environmental predicament limited by the flawed method to create money

excerpts of "Age of Stupid", "97% Owned Monetary Reform", "BP Oilspill" Clarke Dawe, Onion News, Yes Men "Post Consumer Waste Recycling Program WTO"

music: Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Marcus Miller, P.V. Ellis

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Global/International
Australia
Keywords: 
environment
economy
finance

WGAR News: Stronger Futures Petition with 43,000 signatures - audio of petition handover

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 23/06/2012 - 4:48pm

Newsletter date: 23 June 2012

Contents:
* Uncle Kevin Buzzacott returns to court to block Olympic Dam expansion
* Background to expansion of Olympic Dam mine challenge
* Stronger Futures Petition with 43,000 signatures official handover - audio
* Arena Magazine: Barbara Shaw: Shifting Fortunes: Mount Nancy
* SBS World News Video: NT Intervention: 'We desperately need housing'
* DARC: NT Aboriginal voices oppose 'Stronger Futures' law
* Arena Magazine Editorial: Jon Altman and Melinda Hinkson: Hope-Less Futures?

Geography: 
Brisbane
Darwin
Australia
Northern Territory
Sydney
South Australia
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More Stronger Futures Legislation related articles
Uncle Kevin Buzzacott returns to court to block Olympic Dam expansion
Arena Magazine - Barbara Shaw - Shifting Fortunes - Mount Nancy
SBS World News Video - NT Intervention - We desperately need housing
DARC - NT Aboriginal voices oppose Stronger Futures law
Arena Magazine Editorial - Jon Altman and Melinda Hinkson - Hope-Less Futures?
STICS - Horror statistics mark fifth anniversary of NT Intervention
Green Left - Aboriginal panel attacks Labor for 5 years of NT intervention
WGAR considers Stronger Futures legislation should face Human Rights scrutiny
Whitehouse Announce Australian Tour 2012 - 5-28 July
Arena editor John Hinkson - Western Innocence - Why the West continues to devastate Aboriginal cultures
Courier Mail - Charges against Musgrave Park tent embassy protesters dropped
12 July 2012 - Supporting Muckaty - Nuclear Waste through our port - MUA says No Way!!!

Australia is failing all of the environmental commitments it signed up to 20 years ago

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 23/06/2012 - 1:46am

By Greens Senator Larissa Waters

With the United Nations Rio+20 conference, 20 years since the Rio Declaration on Sustainable Development, we must now look back on our record of environmental protection. Sadly, our record leaves much to be desired.

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Global/International
Australia

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speaks from Ecuadorian embassy

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 22/06/2012 - 9:09pm

Reprinted from the WSWS

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange spoke out today from the Ecuadorian embassy in London about the escalating assault on his democratic rights and why he had been compelled to seek political asylum in Ecuador.

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Australia
Keywords: 
Wikileaks
Julian Assange

Government to blame for asylum seeker deaths as sea

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 22/06/2012 - 8:38pm

RAC Press release 22nd June 2012 The possible loss of lives of nearly 100 asylum seekers feared drowned at sea between Australia and Indonesia was entirely preventable. The Refugee Action Collective places the blame for these lives lost with the Australian government and demands people smuggling is decriminalised to prevent any further loss of life.

Geography: 
Melbourne
Australia
Keywords: 
asylum seekers
RAC

WGAR considers Stronger Futures legislation should face Human Rights scrutiny

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Fri, 22/06/2012 - 11:40am

Media Release of WGAR: Working Group for Aboriginal Rights, Australia - 22 June 2012

Working Group for Aboriginal Rights considers Stronger Futures legislation should face Human Rights scrutiny

The Working Group for Aboriginal Rights condemns the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention and its proposed extension for ten years and expansion into other parts of Australia, through the proposed 'Stronger Futures' legislation.

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Australia
Northern Territory
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WGAR condemns NT Intervention and its proposed extension for ten years and expansion into other parts of Australia
WGAR urges the Australian government to fully accept and respect the sovereign rights of Aboriginal Nations

Yolŋuw Makarr Dhuni (Versammlung der Yolngu Nationen)

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Fri, 22/06/2012 - 10:28am

German language articles on the Australian Federal government intervention into Northern Territory (NT) Aboriginal communities:

Contents:
* Yolŋuw Makarr Dhuni (Versammlung der Yolngu Nationen)
* Amnesty International Buchtip - „This Is What We Said“ - Dies ist was wir sagten
* Amnesty International - Our Generation - ein Film über die Aborigines

* YOLNUW MAKARR DHUNI (VERSAMMLUNG DER YOLNGU NATIONEN)

Yolŋuw Makarr Dhuni (Versammlung der Yolngu Nationen)

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Global/International
Australia
Northern Territory
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Amnesty International Buchtip - „This Is What We Said“ - Dies ist was wir sagten
Amnesty International - Our Generation - ein Film über die Aborigines
German language articles on the Australian Federal government intervention into Northern Territory (NT) Aboriginal communities

Good idea, Andrew Bolt

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 21/06/2012 - 11:05pm

Everyone is talking about Gina Rinehart's campaign to take over Fairfax Media.

In the last week she has bought huge stakes in the company. Journalists are reporting that the mining magnate is seeking three seats on the board, but has refused the company's requests to sign the Fairfax Charter of Editorial Independence. In short: editorial independence is under threat at Australia's oldest newspapers.

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Australia