Australia

An extraordinary meeting of Woolworths shareholders to fight problem gambling

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.

Geography: 

The Wrong Method mp3

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

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

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?

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

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.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speaks from Ecuadorian embassy

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.

Geography: 

Government to blame for asylum seeker deaths as sea

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: 

WGAR considers Stronger Futures legislation should face Human Rights scrutiny

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.

Yolŋuw Makarr Dhuni (Versammlung der Yolngu Nationen)

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)

Good idea, Andrew Bolt

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.

Geography: