Stop the NT Intervention – Jobs with Justice for Aboriginal workers
The NT Intervention promised to deliver ‘real jobs’ for Aboriginal communities. Instead, thousands of waged jobs have been lost and Aboriginal organisations have been crippled as Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) close down.[i]
Extreme Drought and aridity is likely to increase within decades across much of Africa, Australia, North and South America, South west Asia, and around the Mediterranean Sea according to a new study by National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) scientist Aiguo Dai.
Earlier research published in 2005 by Aiguo Dai and scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in the USA found that Global Warming is a major factor in Drought increasing globally.
Press release - 18 October 2010
On Tuesday, 19th October the Australian Parliament will debate Australian military involvement in the war and occupation of Afghanistan. Stand Fast, a group of veterans and former military personnel opposed to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, is calling on the debate to openly consider and recognise the hidden casualties of this war and the long term cost this has on communities.
Join us for a power breakfast of insights, innovation and inspiration.
fastBREAK is a monthly series of interactive talks hosted by non-profit youth organisation Vibewire Youth Inc. and the Powerhouse Museum. Each month, five sharp young entrepreneurs from various industries gather together to speak about some of society's most challenging and complicated issues. Past topics have included power, satisfaction and change. Afterwards, participants can share their ideas and converse with the speakers over a tasty breakfast. This month our speakers will be talking about FAILURE.
PLUNDER is a hard-hitting investigative film by former CNN producer Danny Schechter. He explores how the financial crisis was built on the biggest white-collar crime in history. To tell this story Schechter speaks with bankers, respected economists, insider experts, top journalists including Paul Krugman, and even a convicted white-collar criminal, Sam Antar, who blows the whistle on intentionally dishonest practices. The screening will be preceded by THE SHOCK DOCTRINE, a hard-hitting short film centring on 'disaster capitalism' and based on Naomi Klein's book of the same name.
OUR GENERATION [77mins Dir. by Sinem Saban & Damien Curtis] is a powerful journey into Australia’s indigenous relations from colonisation until the present day. It looks at Australia’s ongoing policies of paternalism and assimilation, explains the real issues underlying Indigenous disadvantage, and upholds the right of First Australians to dignity, culture and empowerment in their own country.
$5 suggested donation to keep the Black Rose Library running
A protest against AGL Energy's Coal Seam Gas activities in the Hunter Valley to be staged outside the AGL Energy Annual General Meeting at the Angel Place Recital Hall
Transport from parts of the Hunter Valley available. All Welcome! We need as many as possible - tell your friends and neighbours.
Nine years of Australian defence forces in Afghanistan was remembered by three flashmob die-ins: on the steps of Flinders street station, outside the old GPO, and at the State Library steps today in Melbourne.
Photos | Youtube video: Ninth anniversary of Afghanistan War remembered in Melbourne with a Flashmob protest
Approximately 300 climate activists have converged on Hazelwood Power Station in the Latrobe Valley in Victoria to demand its immediate shut down. The protest is one of the over 7000 thousand protests planned on the 10/10/10 to mark the annual 350.org protests. The protestors are planning to build a model of a solar power plant to symbolise how Hazelwood could be replaced to create a carbon neutral future.
For the latest photos see the Switch Off Hazelwood flickr Photostream | Takver's Replace Hazelwood Photostream | Climate Action Moreland | AYCC photostream | Youtube video: Shaun Murray on Replacing Hazelwood | Erecting the solar power tower | 'Switch off Hazelwood' Protest Rally - 10/10/10
To read updates from the day click here.
an evening of full bruce springsteen film clips, a presentation on the politics of 'the boss' and his music, delicious food, cold beverages and plenty of cheesy puns, fuck yeah!!!
SUNDAY 17th OCTOBER, from 5pm
entry $5 [all money raised goes toward keeping the space open!]
*** holy shit! pack some fresh panties, this is going to be A-MAZING! *****
