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Australia subsidises US assault operations

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 04/08/2010 - 9:56pm

The Stop the War Coalition (StWC) condemns the latest Australian government’s purchase of 18 drones (Shadow 200) and training packages worth $175 m.

Ms Marlene Obeid, spokesperson for the anti-war group, said “the drones are part of an offensive weapons system that, almost certainly, will be linked to US systems in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

“In other words, Australia will be subsidising US assault operations, which are more than likely to result in the death of more Afghan women and children.

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Zero Carbon Australia Stationary Energy Plan Sydney Launch

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 02/08/2010 - 11:09pm

Date and Time:

Thu, 12/08/2010 -

6:00pm to 8:00pm

Location:

Sydney Town Hall 483 George St Sydney, Australia

Contact Name:

Beyond Zero Emissions

Website:

http://beyondzeroemissions.org/

Featuring:

Bob Carr, Former Premier NSW
Malcolm Turnbull, Federal MP
Matthew Wright, Executive Director Beyond Zero Emissions
...Allan Jones, City of Sydney

MC - Quentin Dempster, ABC TV

Free Entry

You are invited to attend the Sydney launch of the Zero Carbon Australia Stationary Energy Plan.

This cutting-edge plan, the culmination of over 12 months and thousands of hours of pro bono work by engineers, scientists and postgraduate students, is a collaboration between the climate solutions think tank Beyond Zero Emissions, and the University of Melbourne Energy Institute.

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Support the Sydney Cycleway Network Rally

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 02/08/2010 - 9:30pm

Date and Time:

Tue, 03/08/2010 -

6:00pm to 7:00pm

Location:

Sydney Town Hall George St Sydney, Australia

Contact Name:

BikeSydney

Website:

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=130529973656477

Head to town hall 6pm Tuesday to show our support for future plans to introduce a people friendly cycleway network.

It also coincides with an Alan jones inspired protest that is planned for the same time.

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Combat Breathing: Bodies and State Violence

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 02/08/2010 - 7:46am

Date and Time:

Sat, 14/08/2010 -

9:30am to 6:30pm

Location:

Macquarie University THEATRE 1 (T1) Y3A

Contact Name:

Joseph Pugliese and Suvendrini Perera

Contact Email:

Joseph.Pugliese@mq.edu.au; S.Perera@curtn.edu.au

"There is not occupation of territory, on the one hand, and independence of persons on the other. It is the country as a whole, its history, its daily pulsation that are contested, disfigured … under these conditions, the individual’s breathing is an observed breathing. It is a combat breathing".
Frantz Fanon

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Melbourne launch of Nuclear Freeways 2010 - 30 July

Submitted by peter on Fri, 30/07/2010 - 6:48pm

Dave Sweeney, Nuclear Free campaigner with the Australian Conservation Foundation, was one of the speakers at the launch of Friends of the Earth Nuclear Freeways 2010.

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Northern Territory Intervention

Ferguson

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nuclear waste dump. Muckaty

Lucas Heights

Pioneering solar photovoltaic centre of excellence loses research funding

Submitted by takver on Fri, 30/07/2010 - 3:23am

Why is a ground breaking solar research facility losing research funding at such a crucial time for transitioning from coal fired power stations to renewable energy? On Monday 26 July Greens staffer Tim Hollo revealed on Twitter that research funding had not been renewed for the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Advanced Silicon Photovoltaics and Photonics based at the University of NSW.

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Wikileaks reveals war crimes in Afghanistan

Submitted by Flowerpower on Wed, 28/07/2010 - 7:03pm

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Environmentalists: Fuel emission reduction policy well behind world's best practice

Submitted by takver on Sun, 25/07/2010 - 1:34pm

Policy Plans released by Julia Gillard and her Climate Change Minister Penny Wong for mandatory fuel efficiency standards and a $2000 rebate for trading in pre-1995 cars for new fuel efficient vehicles, were cautiously welcomed by environmentalists while being criticised for not going far enough and being funded by cuts to other climate change action programs such as Carbon Capture and Storage and solar energy. "Under this plan, Australia's fuel efficiency standards for new vehicles will be about a quarter of a century behind China's when they are eventually law. We must make our cars cleaner quicker." said Don Henry, Australian Conservation Foundation executive director.

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Sub-metro community radio stations face an uncertain future

Submitted by 2SER on Sun, 25/07/2010 - 12:47am

Sydney community radio is unique for its non-profit structure and for providing a voice for groups that would otherwise not get access to the mainstream media. But smaller stations in this sector seem to have been completely overlooked as part of Australia’s move to go digital.

With one hundred thousand digital radios being sold in last six months Australians appear to be more keen than those in the US and the UK to take up this new technology.

But with no digital band-width being allocated for the Sydney sub-metro community stations, how secure is their future?

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community radio

Walk Against Warming 2010

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 25/07/2010 - 12:04am

Date and Time:

Sun, 15/08/2010 -

11:00am to 3:00pm

Location:

Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Hobart, Launceston, Adelaide Perth, Darwin and many regional towns

Website:

http://www.walkagainstwarming.org/

We’re doing our bit on climate change. It's time to make our political leaders do theirs. This election join a Walk near you and help us convince our political leaders to: Walk with the people. Not the Big Polluters.

While our political leaders have been squabbling, the rest of us have been getting on with the business of dealing with climate change.

We're going green and clean. We're reducing our greenhouse pollution and recycling our waste. We're saving water and energy, and buying greenpower. And we're forming climate action groups - all across the country.

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