Australia

Bushfires strike with extreme heatwave blanketing most of Australia

Jan 8: Climate Change: Records tumble in extreme heatwave as temperature scale adjusted upwards

Jan 8: Julia Gillard links intensity of bushfires with climate change as NSW survives catastrophic fire conditions

Jan 5: Tasmanian Bushfires catastrophic but no confirmed loss of life

Jan 4: Hobart recorded it's highest recorded minimum temperature Thursday night and highest recorded daytime temperature on Friday. Bushfires are currently raging in Tasmania destroying houses and forcing evacuations (see below).

Jan 3: Elevated temperatures in an extreme heatwave are occuring across a brought sweep of Australia, with the heatwave expected to last at least a week. It is very unusual that a heat wave covers such a large area of the continent at one time, according to Karl Braganza, manager of climate monitoring at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology. Australia's weather has switched to hot and dry after one of the wettest two year periods in Australia's history influenced by an extremely strong La Nina event.

Related: Scientists outline health limits of heat stress with Climate Change (May 2010) | Flooding rains now burning plains - Bushfire risk and climate change (Oct 2011) | Logging of Victorian mountain ash forests increases bushfire risk (Oct 2011) | Intact native Forests mitigate bushfire in a warming climate (Nov 2011) | CSIRO - Climate change impacts on fire weather

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WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 38 events from 5 January 2013

Newsletter date: 5 January 2013

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Event: 10am Sat 5 January 2013: Post Office Square, Brisbane, Qld
Dundalli Remembrance
Resistance leader for his land, people and culture - executed 1855
All welcome!
Facebook: Brisbane Aboriginal Sovereign Embassy
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Event: 10 December 2012 to 10 January 2013: Online
Our Generation film
Film released free online
"To mark the International Day for Human Rights
(10 Dec), we have uploaded the original version

WGAR News: "I could live on $6321 a week" John Passant [Minister Macklin is paid $6321 a week]

Newsletter date: 4 January 2013

Contents:

Income
* NITV News Video: Living Allowance Row
* Bianca Hall, The Age: ACOSS calls on Macklin to 'please do your job'
* Greens Acting Leader, Adam Bandt: Join me on the dole, Minister
* Senator Rachel Siewert: Greens urge Minister Macklin to live on Newstart
* Greens MPs Petition: Could you really live on $35 a day, Minister?
* John Passant, En Passant: I could live on $6321 a week
* Background to 'Stronger Futures' new NT Intervention laws
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention

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RAC media release - "people disappear in Sri Lanka"

REFUGEE GROUPS CALL FOR SRI LANKA CRICKET BOYCOTT AND AN END TO DEPORTATIONS

Refugee supporters will join Tamil groups to protest outside
tomorrow’s SCG cricket match to call for a sporting boycott of the Sri
Lankan cricket team, and for Australia to welcome refugees fleeing
that country’s repressive regime.

Protesters will gather at 9.30am, Thursday 3 January, on Driver
Avenue, outside the main gates into the Sydney Cricket Ground.

Almost years after the end of the country’s civil war, when government
forces massacred over 40,000 Tamils, the regime of President Mahinda

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