Australia

Budget for billionaires

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 13/05/2011 - 6:28pm

The following is a critique of the 2011 Fedreal budget from Peter Boyle from his blog Peter's Notepad The mining and banking companies creaming billions in super profits from the Asian industrialisation-driven mining boom in Australia – the biggest ever mining boom in this country’s history – have done very well from the federal Budget delivered by the Gillard Labor government on May 10.

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Australia
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Federal Budget 2011

How NAPLAN and data is being used to trash public education and teachers rights.

Submitted by Flowerpower on Tue, 10/05/2011 - 7:00pm

The World Socialist Website has published a very compelling article on how NAPLAN is being used undermine public education and attack teachers working conditions. It also outlines how the AEU is complicit in these attacks. I agree completely with the article's contention that parents and teachers should work together outside the AEU to start a real campaign against NAPLAN before public education completely goes the why of the U.S. system.

Read the article on the website here

Geography: 
Australia
Keywords: 
NAPLAN
public education

Sign RISE online petition against the Malaysian Solution

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 10/05/2011 - 6:18pm

The refugee advocacy group RISE has created an online petition for people to sign against the Malaysian solution. Sign the petition here

Below is the text of the petition:

TO THE HONORABLE SPEAKER AND MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

This petition is from Australian citizens and residents.

We draw the attention of the House to the Australian and Malaysian Refugee Trade:

Geography: 
Australia
Keywords: 
RISE
Malaysian Solution

Refugee groups oppose Gillard’s offshore ‘solutions’ in Malaysia and PNG

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 08/05/2011 - 12:44pm

Refugee Action Coalition media release detailing immediate concerns with MALAYSIAN SOLUTION.

Also on this issue.

Julia Gillard's announcement of a deal to send asylum seekers attempting to arrive in Australia by boat to Malaysia is just the latest chapter in Australia's attempts to dodge its international obligations as a signatory to the UN Convention on Refugees, according to the Refugee Action Coalition.

Geography: 
Global/International
Australia
Keywords: 
Malaysia
asylum seeker
refugee
PNG
Manus Island

WGAR News: Interviews with Barb Shaw and Michael Anderson; speeches by Pat Anderson and Les Malezer

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 07/05/2011 - 1:39pm

Newsletter date: 7 May 2011

Contents:
* Speech by Pat Anderson, co-author of the "Little Children are Sacred" report, on the NT Intervention
* Interview with Barbara Shaw, of the Intervention Rollback Action Group, on the NT Intervention
* Justice for Aboriginal workers in the NT - Petition to be presented to Parliament next week
* Interview with Michael Anderson on the New Way Sovereignty Summit, now concluded
* Background to New Way Sovereignty Summit, last updated 6 May 11
* Speech by Les Malezer, Co-chair of the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples

Geography: 
Australia
Northern Territory
Keywords: 
NT intervention
indigenous
aboriginal
Northern Territory Intervention
New Way Summit
National Congress of Australia's First Peoples (NCAFP)
New Way Aboriginal Summit
Jobs with Justice
Tracker Magazine
New Way Sovereignty Summit
Little Children are Sacred
Intervention Rollback Action Group IRAG
Koori Mail

Sydney remembers Al Nakba

Submitted by Palestine on Tue, 03/05/2011 - 10:02pm

The 63rd year of the Palestinian Nakba, which saw two-thirds of the Palestinian population become refugees following the 1948 War and the establishment of the State of Israel, will take place on 15th May, 2011. Many in the Australian community now recognise the enormous significance of the Nakba for the Palestinian people, millions of whom remain refugees unable to return to their homes, while others live under Israel’s harsh military occupation of East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza.

Geography: 
Australia
Keywords: 
indigenous
occupation
aboriginal
palestine
Israel
Boycott
Divestment
Sanctions
Sydney Australia

WGAR News: Indigenous Languages Forum - 8 May 2011, Mparntwe / Alice Springs

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 03/05/2011 - 12:03pm

Newsletter date: 3 May 2011

Contents:
* Indigenous Languages Forum - 8 May 2011, Mparntwe / Alice Springs
* Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
* Travelling exhibition tracing the fight for Indigenous civil rights from 1920 to 1970
* Aboriginal Deaths in Custody and Aboriginal incarceration rates
* Other Aboriginal Articles

INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES FORUM - 8 MAY 2011, MPARNTWE / ALICE SPRINGS

- Forum

Bilingual Education in the Northern Territory:
Indigenous languages - politics, policy, protection and practice

Geography: 
New South Wales
Australia
Northern Territory
Queensland
Western Australia
Keywords: 
NT intervention
indigenous
aboriginal
Northern Territory Intervention
Jobs with Justice
Aboriginal deaths in custody
Indigenous Languages Forum
National Museum of Australia
From Little Things Big Things Grow
ABC’s 7:30 Report

Green illusions and the carbon tax: article by Tim Anderson

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 01/05/2011 - 5:38pm

Below is a very interesting article that Tim Anderson, an academic from Sydney Uni published on his Facebook page. It includes in my opinion a very cogent critique of the embrace by the Greens and the environment movement of "market solutions" to Climate Change such as the Carbon Tax and Cap and Trade schemes. He highlights the foolishness of believeing that anything other than direct investment in renewables, regulation and removal of subsidies to fossil fuel will bring our emmissions down.

Green Illusions and the Carbon Tax: By Tim Anderson

Geography: 
Australia
Keywords: 
climate change
Greens