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Future Shots - Sustainability Film Challenge for young Victorians

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 15/09/2010 - 11:15am

Calling all young Victorians with a vision for a sustainable future

Are you under 25 and want to win some great cash and prizes? The Future Shots Sustainability Film Challenge is now open. For the second year running, Future Shots invites all Victorians 25 and under to create a short film of under three minutes addressing the theme of sustainability.

With over $9000 in cash and prizes to be won, Future Shots encourages young Victorians to creatively explore sustainability in their world.

Entry deadline is 15 November 2010.

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New coal-fired plant for Victoria one step closer

Submitted by Flowerpower on Tue, 14/09/2010 - 7:40pm

Showing the lie of Brumby's pre-election promise that Victoria would cut its greenhouse emmissions to %20 below 2000 levels by 2020, HRL has signed a deal with a Chinese company to construct a new $750 million brown coal powered plant. The plant which still needs approval from the EPA is being sold as "clean technology" as it is "only" as polluting as black coal!!! It also puts Brumby's promise to shut a quarter of Hazelwood by 2014 in a new light too - it will just be replaced by a new brown coal plant.

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People’s Assembly in Canberra at the Opening of Parliament

Submitted by Flowerpower on Tue, 14/09/2010 - 7:25pm

Date and Time:

Tue, 28/09/2010 -

11:30am to 1:30pm

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Parliament House the grassy hill Canberra, Australia

Contact Name:

Sue Bolton

Contact Phone:

0413 377 978

Contact Email:

trconcepts@netspace.net.au

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.

FBI forwarded prisoner support postcards to Canberra Counterterrorism

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 14/09/2010 - 4:12am

This is a forwarded piece from the California central valley indybay site, which is relevant to Australia.

Read the original here: http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/09/12/18658489.php

Eric McDavid is a political prisoner, given a 20 year sentence under the new terrorism enhancement penalty added on to a 'conspiracy to commit arson' charge, near Sacramento, California.

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World Animal Day at Edgar's Mission

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 09/09/2010 - 5:08pm

Date and Time:

Sun, 03/10/2010 -

11:00am to 4:00pm

Location:

Edgar's Mission, 365 McHarg's Road, Willowmavin, Victoria 3764

Website:

www.edgarsmission.org.au

Edgar's mission are hosting a lovely Sunday afternoon event to celebrate 'World Animal day'.

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Victoria

S11 protest tenth anniversary picnic

Submitted by Flowerpower on Tue, 07/09/2010 - 9:34pm

Date and Time:

Sun, 12/09/2010 -

1:00pm to 3:00pm

Location:

Eureka Park in Ballarat (cnr Stawell & Eureka Streets, near the old Stockade Memorial).

Contact Phone:

0431 554 354

John in Ballarat is organisng a 10th anniversary BBQ picnic to celebrate the 2000 S11 protests against the World Economic Forum in Melbourne.

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Victoria

Brumby acts to neutralise climate change issue for Victorian election

Submitted by takver on Sun, 05/09/2010 - 4:25pm

The Victorian parliament tackled climate change on Friday with a climate bill passed in the Legislative Council with support of Liberals and Greens members to set a 20 percent emissions reduction based upon 2000 levels by 2020. "This is a significant Bill which has the potential to stabilise and then drive down our greenhouse emissions, while also creating certainty for investors and industry, and many new jobs across the state," said Friends of the Earth (FoE) campaigns co-ordinator Cam Walker.

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Join the “Save the Pines” community picket

Submitted by Flowerpower on Sat, 04/09/2010 - 3:18pm

For over two months members of the “Friends of The Pines Flora and Fauna Reserve” have staffed a community picket to stop the bulldozers destroying an irreplaceable piece of Heritage listed indigenous vegetation at the Westerfield property on the Mornington Peninsula.

Four people have been arrested on the 28th September as bulldozers and police started to move in. Read the story here

The property is slated for destruction to make way for the environmentally destructive and unnecessary Peninsula Link Freeway that has been rammed through without any scrutiny under the “Major Transports Projects Faciliation Act” by the authoritarian Brumby government. Community members have bravely blocked the bulldozers on this site to prevent it going the way of other indigenous vegetation remnants around Frankston that have already been destroyed to make way for another carbon spewing freeway. Please consider donating to the campaign or even better attending the Community Picket which is staffed dawn to dusk each day. For more details of how to get there, news about the picket and about the campaign itself visit http://savethepines.net or call Gillian Collins on 0414 309 960, picket organiser and coordinator Friends of The Pines Flora and Fauna Reserve

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Save the Pines

Peninsula Link Freeway

TAFE teachers losing jobs due to fee hikes

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 04/09/2010 - 2:36pm

TAFE students aren’t the only ones losing out as a result of hiked TAFE fees – teachers are falling victim to redundancies as student enrolments dwindle.

NMIT land management and conservation teacher Sebastian Buckingham was recently made redundant.

"Due to the State Government's Skill Reform, enrolments across the institute and in particular this department are well down," agriculture and animal science department head Phil Tripp is said to have told land management students. (Whittlesea Leader)

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Brown Mountain win for forests in Victorian Supreme Court

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 11/08/2010 - 7:41pm

In a landmark decision today, the Supreme Court has found that the government has a responsibility to look for and protect endangered wildlife before logging in the contentious Brown Mountain forests of East Gippsland.
“This judgment has implications for all native forests that are set to be destroyed by logging,” said EEG spokesperson Jill Redwood.
“If we hadn’t sued VicForests, Brown Mountain would have been illegally logged by now. And Brown Mountain is just one area. The government is logging publicly owned forests every day without endangered species surveys.”

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