No-one in government cares enough about Aboriginal peoples
Gerry Georgatos
Well placed sources, including parliamentarians, in the Australian Labor Party, the Coalition, and the Greens have made surprising comments that issues afflicting Aboriginal peoples and 'Aboriginal affairs' are in the 'too hard basket' or 'best swept under the carpet'.
It is disingenous for Julia Gillard, Wayne Swan, Stephen Conroy, Bill Shorten and others to be smashing the reputation of Kevin Rudd and to dishevel the legacy of his time in the Office of the Prime Minister.
Join us for an explanation of the moratorium on logging in High Conservation Value forests and why it's needed as a first step towards peace in the forests. Join MC Vica Payley from the Wilderness Society presenting speakers including, Peter McQuillian (UTAS), Phill Pullinger (Environment Tasmania), Jenny Weber (Huon Valley Environment Centre). The evening will also include a photographic expose of the forests in question by Nature Photographers Tasmania presented by Rob Blakers.
We are asking for you to join with us at a Peoples Assembly in Canberra at the opening of Parliament on Tuesday 28 September (2010).
We will assemble on the lawns outside Parliament House to call on the new Parliament to introduce humane refugee policies and stop using refugees as political footballs. Refugee groups are asked to bring banners with the key messages of the gathering as well as their own messages.
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.
