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The Stringer weekly newsletter - May 4

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sat, 04/05/2013 - 2:29pm

The Stringer went live February 20 - NEWS update: More contributors and writers have joined The Stringer as we continue to extend our reach nationally and internationally. We are also keen to share with you that in the 73 days we have been bringing to you The Stringer we have been reaching an audience in such high numbers that it was beyond our expectations. We are establishing a healthy national reach but also an international social reach.

The Prime Minister believes she will win September 14

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sat, 04/05/2013 - 1:00pm

Every poll nationwide portrays either a decisive or catastrophic defeat for the Australian Labor Party come September. But the Office of the Prime Minister has gone heavy into campaign strategies since late last year according to our source. These include not just make overs for the Prime Minister but the commissioning of their own polls and surveys.

Read the whole story here: http://thestringer.com.au/prime-minister-believes-she-will-win/#.UYR3A7W...

Australia’s Aboriginal children detained at the world’s highest rates

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Thu, 02/05/2013 - 4:31pm

By Gerry Georgatos - courtesy of The Stringer - http://thestringer.com.au/

In the United States, the Annie Casey Foundation’s report ‘No Place for Kids: The Case for Reducing Juvenile Incarceration,’ has an assembly of juvenile crime statistics that evidence why locking up children does not work. The United States has the highest documented incarceration rates of adults and children than any other nation.

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WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 47 events from 2 May 2013

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 01/05/2013 - 5:58pm

Newsletter date: 2 May 2013

Click on the links for details of the events ...

Event: Thu 2 May 2013: Brunswick, Melbourne, Vic
Next Meeting:
Indigenous Social Justice Association - Melbourne:
http://www.isja-msg.com/index.htm
"During 2013, ISJA will meet the
first Thursday of every month."
Event details: http://www.isja-msg.com/coming_events.htm

Event: Fri 3 May 2013: Grovedale, Geelong, Vic
Book Launch: A Decision to Discriminate
Aboriginal Disempowerment in the Northern Territory
Speakers:
Auntie Betty Pike, Elder from the Aboriginal Catholic Ministry, Victoria

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NSW proposed biofuel heartland

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 01/05/2013 - 2:05pm

Oil Tree Lagoon is a part of NSW that is slowly becoming the biofuel heartland of NSW, a variety of biofuel crops are being grown & their is hope that more people will be attracted to the area to cultivate biofuel crops, this gives people a alternative job than to work in a onshore or offshore oil rig.

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New South Wales

Raelians celebrate the end of labour on May 1st -

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 30/04/2013 - 11:44pm

Date and Time:

Wed, 01/05/2013 -

2:00pm to 5:30pm

Location:

Byron Bay Main Beach Park

Contact Name:

Tara Blackman

Contact Phone:

02 80114977

Contact Email:

tara@rael.org

Website:

http://paradism.org/news.php?item.25.5

Raelians celebrate the end of labour on May 1st

April 30TH - The Paradism movement (www.paradism.org) has declared May 1st International Day of paradism
to celebrate the advent of a new society without work and money.

While many countries around the world recognise “International Labour Day” on May 1st, the Paradism movement will herald the coming of the “end of the labour”.

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WGAR News: Sisters Inside - Debbie Kilroy on [Aboriginal] women in prison: The Stringer

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 29/04/2013 - 11:19am

Newsletter date: 30 April 2013

Contents:

* Debbie Kilroy, The Stringer: Sisters Inside - Debbie Kilroy on the over-representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women in prison
* SBS Radionews Audio: Call for crime prevention focus to cut Indigenous jail rates
* The Stringer: KALACC lends its weight to Justice Reinvestment
* Priscilla Collins, Aboriginal Peak Organisations NT: Mandatory rehabilitation bill must be released for public consultation
* Ray Jackson, Green Left: Stop police self investigation
* Background to Aboriginal imprisonment and Deaths in Custody

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Western Australia

The Stringer weekly newsletter - April 27

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sat, 27/04/2013 - 10:16am

Welcome to The Stringer’s weekly newsletter - http://thestringer.com.au/

Get retailers to sign the Bangladesh fire and building safety agreement

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 27/04/2013 - 9:08am

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Carbon price funding solar PV for Adelaide factory puts Tony Abbott on ice

Submitted by takver on Sat, 27/04/2013 - 1:31am

Opposition Leader Tony Abbott made a frosty mistake in visiting the Adelaide Ice Service factory today, arguing the business was a victim of the carbon tax. At the same time Climate Change Minister Greg Combet and local Labor MP Mark Butler announced a grant of nearly $90,000 to the company from the carbon price funded Clean Technology Food and Foundries Program to install a 87.5 kilowatt photovoltaic solar system at its ice manufacturing plant in Regency Park.

The visit continues Abbott's attempt to beat up the carbon price as a negative, but it shows just how shallow and loose with the truth his own campaign is, especially regarding climate change policy. The carbon price hasn't brought economic ruin. Indeed, there are strong arguments by Environment Victoria that the compensation package to carbon intense energy providers is overly generous. Victoria's brown coal generators are being subsidised to continue polluting to maintain healthy profits.

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