Australia

Campaign launch: Stop Ta Ann from destroying Tasmania's forests

TAKING THE ACTION ONLINE - http://taann.com.au/take-action-now/

A new campaign targeting Ta Ann Tasmania and their ongoing use of Tasmanian high conservation value (HCV) forests launches today. Taan.com.au is a partnership between Markets for Change, Huon Valley Environment Centre and The Last Stand.

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I see no riot or attack on Australia Day but police aggression, how about you?

The incident where Prime Minister Gillard was dragged away by the security forces to the car and speeded away has been portrayed by the media as an attack or riot in Australia Day.

Wilkie to supprt Abbott for PM

Andrew Wilkie has shown his true colours in this report where he has said he will vote in favour of a motion of no confidence in the Prime Minister.  Wilkie will not forgive Gillard for ditching his pokies reform bill and will now vote with the opposition to unsettle the government.  Wilkie can no longer say he is concerned about the welfare of working families, which his pokies reform was meanto to do,  Abbott will turn back the boats, tear up workchoices,

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PHOTOS - Canberra banner drops

A group of Canberra anarchists dropped 3 banners around the Civic in the nation's capital, as an autonomous action in solidarity with Aboriginal Tent Embassy's 40 years of struggle. One banner was hung on the pedestrian bridge on Alinga St reading '(AUSTRALIA - crossed out) INVASION DAY. SOVEREIGNTY NEVER CEDED". Another two were hung from a large empty building on London CCt directly opposite the Department of Public Prosecutions and an Australian Federal Police station which read "224 YEARS OF OCCUPATION, 224 YEARS OF RESISTANCE" and "STOLEN LAND".

Canberra banner drops demand sovereignty.

A group of aboriginal rights activists last night dropped a number of banners around the Civic in the nation's capital. One reading '(AUSTRALIA - crossed out) INVASION DAY. SOVEREIGNTY NEVER CEDED" was hung over the pedestrian bridge on Alinga St. Numbers 21-23 and 25 London Cct, across from the Department of Public Prosecutions, had banners which read, respectively, "224 YEARS OF OCCUPATION, 224 YEARS OF RESISTANCE" and "STOLEN LAND".

Why Wall Street Protesters will Admire Chinese Protestors

In the land of the ‘FREE’, Wall Street protestors campaigning against social injustice, inequality, unemployment, corporate powers, cost of living and hardship have constantly been arrested and evicted by authorities.

Join Abbott's Navy

“We are a humanitarian country. We don't turn people back into the sea, we don't turn unseaworthy boats which are likely to capsize and the people on them be drowned. We can't behave in that manner." – John Howard.[1]

Tony Abbott has announced that if he becomes Prime Minister, he’ll force the navy to turn back all asylum seeker boats - asking Australian Navy personnel to do the extraordinary thing of repairing unseaworthy boats while out at sea, before sending asylum seekers back on a dangerous journey.

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Turn back the boats

The Opposition under Tony Abbott if they win election have a very clear policy to Turn Back the Boats.  This goes beyond the idea of off shore processing or temporary visas, it means refugees will no longer be able to land on our shores.  If anyone thinks that there is not a clear distinction between Labour an dthe Liberal Pary on this issue read this article.  The Liberal's are turning back th eclock and entering very murky waters, they will rip up work choices, aband

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Michael Anderson condemns proposed constitutional reforms as treasonous and fraudulent

20 January 12 -- A northwest NSW Aboriginal leader, Michael Ghillar Anderson, has condemned proposals for writing Indigenous people into the constitution as a treasonous act and serious fraud against Aboriginal peoples, because it does not represent their interests across the nation.

The proposals, handed to the Gillard government by a panel, fail to deal with the central and substantive issue of sovereignty and true land rights, the leader of the Euahlayi nation writes in a media release.

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