Melbourne

The residents of the Alice Springs town camps have fought for many decades to keep their land. The town campers' organization, the Tangentyere Council, has worked hard with a tiny budget to maintain housing and supply other basic services such as running water.

Now the Federal Indigenous Affairs Minster, Jenny Macklin, is threatening to compulsorily acquire the town camps in early August. People will pay rent to the NT Government which has a record of failing to maintain housing and of evicting Aboriginal families on trivial grounds.

RALLY AGAINST THIS RACIST LAND GRAB

Find out about climate change in the 'roof of the world' and what it means for Australia and Asia. Hear Pemba Dorje Sherpa, holder of the world record for the fastest climb of Mount Everest, talk about his experience of global warming in the Himalayas. He is joined by environmental lawyer and activist Prakash Sharma, Pro Public Nepal.

Hiroshima Day Rally

No Bombs. No Mines. No Excuses.
Sixty four years after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Australian Government is rushing headlong into a nuclear nightmare.
The recent announcement by Environment Minister Garrett of a new uranium mine in South Australia to be operated by Heathgate Resources, a subsiduary of General Atomics a major US arms company puts an end for once and for all to the rhetoric of Australian uranium being used for 'peaceful purposes'.