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Baillieu government funds new prisons while slashing public TAFE education

Submitted by takver on Fri, 11/05/2012 - 1:38am

Angry TAFE teachers and students attended a rally today to protest the massive cuts to TAFE vocational education and training in the Victorian Budget handed down on May 1, 2012. The implications of massive defunding is a softening up of the public TAFE institutes for privatisation. The budget cuts will mean substantial redundancies of teachers, especially in smaller regional TAFE institutes, a major increase in course fees, and loss of subsidiary student services such as study skills assistance, library services and counselling.

Flickr Photos: Takver, NTEUvic, Thomas Lim | TAFE4All Facebook Album | Tafe4all
Youtube Videos: Mary Bluett, Colin Long, Brian Boyd, student perspective

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WGAR News: Several organisations express support for the Yolngu Nations Assembly statement

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Thu, 10/05/2012 - 10:44am

Newsletter date: 10 May 2012

Contents:
* 'concerned Australians' gives its full support to the Yolngu Nations Assembly statement
* SNAICC  stands  in  solidarity  with  Yolngu  Nations  Assembly
* St Vincent de Paul Society respectfully supports Yolngu Elders
* UCA: Federal Government should heed Yolngu voices
* Mornington IAAG stands with Yolgnu Elders in their opposition to the "Stronger Futures" legislation
* ACM Melbourne: Yolngu Nations Reject "Stronger Futures Proposed Legislation"
* ACM Sydney: Yolngu Nations Reject "Stronger Futures"

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Scrap Myki! Make PT free!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 09/05/2012 - 5:59pm

Date and Time:

Fri, 25/05/2012 -

4:00pm to 5:00pm

Location:

121 Exhibition Street, Melbourne CBD

So far, more than $1.35 billion has been spent on the development of myki, paid to a consortium of private companies. Compare this to the $350 million per year (adjusted for inflation) spent on public transport before privatisation!

For more than a decade, fares have been increased well above inflation, often on the recommendation of private operators. These same operators have shown themselves incapable of running the system efficiently. Overall, privatisation has cost the public over $2 billion more than public ownership.

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Stop HRL Campaign Information Night

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 09/05/2012 - 5:17pm

Date and Time:

Mon, 21/05/2012 -

6:00pm to 7:30pm

Location:

Friends Of The Earth 312 Smith St Collingwood

Website:

https://www.facebook.com/events/322946664442938/

You've probably heard all about HRL and their dastardly plans to build new brown coal fired power station in the Latrobe Valley. Well now the Quit Coal campaign to stop that from happening is about to kick it up a notch. For the next 6 weeks, we'll be calling (in a loud voice) on the Federal Government to withdraw a $100 million dollar grant that's been keeping HRL afloat. We want that money going to renewables and to see an end to dirty coal power in this state!

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Melbourne

Court Protects Animal Exploiters, Activists Fined

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 09/05/2012 - 4:57pm

The legal system has failed the hens once again. Almost one year since ALV's rooftop protest at an Egg Production Factory in Somerville, the Somerville 12 (pictured above) faced the Frankston Magistrate Court. All 12 were found guilty of "Refusing to Leave Private Place". Although no convictions were handed down, the activists were fined $1,000 each.

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Animal Liberation VIctoria

The Australian prison system has failed; warehouses of illness & death. Bring on Bastoy for starters

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Tue, 08/05/2012 - 11:30pm

Gerry Georgatos
If you want to know the hearts and minds of a nation, of its consciousness, of its legislators, then day and night look into our prisons.

The two century old modern day prison experiment is failing, that is if we look at the spiralling incarceration rates, adult and youth, and if we look at re-offending rates, the recidivism.

My PhD research argues that people who enter the prison experience, who are incarcerated for relatively short or long terms leave the prison experience worse than they came in.

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Melbourne and Victoria Aboriginal rights events for your diary - 8 events from 12 May 2012

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 08/05/2012 - 2:45pm

Click on the links for details of the events ...

Event: Sat 12 May 2012: Melbourne City, Vic
2012 Autumn Action:
Rally: Stop Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
Remember all who have died in custody
Protest NSW police shootings
Organised by Indigenous Social Justice Association
Event details: http://www.isja-msg.com/coming_events.htm
Event details: http://www.facebook.com/events/108437109276373/
Event details: http://indymedia.org.au/stop-aboriginal-deaths-in-custody-2012-autumn-ac...
Event details: http://www.greenleft.org.au/events/50705

Event: 16 May 2012: Coburg, Melbourne, Vic

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WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 30 events from 8 May 2012

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 08/05/2012 - 1:23pm

Newsletter date: 8 May 2012

Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia
- 30 events from 8 May 2012

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Event: 8 May 2012: Parramatta, Sydney, NSW
Public Consultation:
National Anti-Racism Partnership Strategy
"Want to hear your thoughts on how racism
affects the community and what we should
be doing about it."
Event details: [scroll down page] http://www.humanrights.gov.au/about/events/index.html#may

Event: 4 May - 8 July 2012: Circular Quay, Sydney, NSW
Manuwangku, Under the Nuclear Cloud

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BZE Film Nights present "Gasland"

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 07/05/2012 - 3:01pm

Date and Time:

Tue, 22/05/2012 -

6:00pm to 9:00pm

Location:

Kindness House, 288 Brunswick St, Fitzroy, 3065

Contact Name:

Josh

Contact Phone:

0416 968 060

Contact Email:

josh.brown@beyondzeroemissions.org

Website:

http://beyondzeroemissions.org/events/vic-bze-film-nights-presents-gasland

Transport: Tram 112, stop 16 (cnr Johnston & Brunswick St)

Price: Donations welcome ($5 suggested)

Heard about fracking?

Want to know more about controversial plans to extract Coal Seam Gas (CSG) in Victoria?

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Melbourne

Control bill pushed to target Aboriginal peoples and to erode civil liberties

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sun, 06/05/2012 - 4:09pm

Gerry Georgatos
Australia-wide Aboriginal organisations, communities and rights advocates are more than just apprehensive of the consolidated push by State and Territory governments for the introduction of Criminal Association Control Bills better known as anti-association laws – in Western Australia, the Criminal Organisation Bill 2012 appears that it will be passed and within days.

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