The Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts was in town to deliver a speech on energy saving, but environmentalists staged a welcome designed to remind him of speeches he delivered before he joined the ALP, in the days when he vigourously and vocally opposed policies he now defends ...
50 kilometres south east of Melbourne, a local bee keeper is concerned that genetically modified crops could affect his honey production. “I believe that at this stage we know very little about these products,” said Chris, who lives three miles from a property that is growing GM canola. He worries about the effects of GM crops on both the bees and the humans living in his local area.
Is it hot enough for you yet in Melbourne? We are in the midst of a heatwave of Several days of highly unseasonal 30+ temperatures in early November. At 4 days of heat in excess of 30 degree so far... it is the longest spell of heat in Melbourne in November since 1925. The record of six days over 30 degrees in November, which occurred in 1896, might very well be broken this week.
A story is unfolding in Melbourne's Western suburbs that, unlike the happy ending in that seminal Australian movie "The Castle", where an Australian "battler" was able to use the Australian constitution to stop his home being forcibly acquired by the local council, 162 families in Rockbank in the West face the very real prospect of being forcibly evicted from their homes.
During October '09, Ampilatwatja's spokesperson, Richard Downs, conducted a speaking-tour along the east coast of Australia, talking at Universities, Workers' Unions, Indigenous communities and at public rallies in Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Brisbane, raising awareness of the walk-off against the NT Intervention and appealing for funds to help the walkoff camp to remain self-sufficient. A new video by Juice Media of this tour has been made.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nJKEl9asqQ
Human Rights Protest Dinner
Saturday 21st November at 7:30 pm at Maya, 11 Rossmoyne Street, Thornbury (Melbourne Melway Map 30 G4 - Tram 86)
public rally to remember victims of family violence homicide - union sponsored
Each year in Australia, at least 60 women and 20 children will die as a result of family violence.
To raise awareness about family violence and to remember all those women and children who have been killed, we are holding a public event at:
Federation Square, Melbourne on Friday, November 27, from 6.30pm.
Refugee advocates and the Australian Union Movement have called on the Rudd Government to take the 78 Sri Lankans on the Oceanic Viking to Christmas Island where their claims as refugees and asylum seekers can be processed. Many of them have languished in Indonesian Immigration Detention for several years and already have been determined as refugees. They are refusing to leave the Australian Customs ship Oceanic Viking to go to the Tanjung Pinang Detention Centre resulting in a standoff between the Australian Government and the Indonesian Government.
See also: Australia's refugee resettlement program from Indonesia grossly inadequate | Tell Kevin Rudd: respect refugees’ rights
http://www.bicyclefilmfestival.com/?p=melbourne
BFF Melbourne November 26 - 29
Thursday 12 November
7:00 PM | Sweet Ride BFF Art Show opening
Thousand £ Bend - 361 Little Lonsdale St
Friday 13 November
6:00 PM | Local Bike Shorts
Human Powered Cycles - 562 High St Thornbury FREE
Saturday 14 November
6:00 PM | Local Bike Shorts
Human Powered Cycles - 562 High St Thornbury FREE
Saturday 21 November
1:00 PM | Ring of Fire Party - Pony Bikes - 87 Capel St West Melbourne
Thursday 26 November
Screenings at Kino Cinema - 45 Collins St Melbourne
Http://www.nukefreeaus.org
