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PHILIPPINES: $1-B Australian aid linked to two key issues

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 24/11/2011 - 11:58pm

During his press conference upon his return from the Apec meeting in Honolulu, President Aquino thanked Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard for the $1 billion aid provided by the Australian government to “help the recent flood and typhoon victims.”

Before we applaud the Australian government and its prime minister for their apparent generosity, let us consider Australia’s national interests that are involved in the Philippines. There are two key issues that stand out.

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AUSTRALIA: CEASE DISREGARD FOR HUMAN RIGHTS! Change Immigration Detention Policies and Practices!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 22/11/2011 - 9:40pm

AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT, Hear the detainees! Better the lives of refugees immediately! There have been multiple detainees on hungerstrikes, insisting on truth and

freedom of information. The indefinite and uninformed detainment of innocent people is unacceptable, harmful and disregarding human rights.

The situation becomes more pressing everyday. Mental health is at risk and detainees are inlficting self-harm to scream out for attention. Three detainees have sown

their lips shut to express their protest! (nov 22, 2011 Herald Sun) There have been multiple suicide attempts.

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Direct Democracy: The Case Against.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 22/11/2011 - 7:23pm

The most obvious case of direct democracy is through referenda. In a referendum every person is given the right to vote directly on a proposition, and depending on the law of the land that referendum will have either a positive or a negative outcome.

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Rainforest Logging Breach: Protesters onsite at Survey Rd

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 21/11/2011 - 8:45am

GECO Media Release Monday 21 November, 2011

Rainforest logging breach:
Protesters on site at Survey Road

This morning conservationists have again halted logging in rainforest on Survey Road in far East Gippsland. Five logging machines have been cabled off to a treesit in the forest canopy.

“As if it wasn’t enough that VicForests had sent their logging contractors into a coupe containing precious old-growth forest; conservationists have now verified that rainforest has been logged on site as well”, said spokesperson Amelia Young.

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PALEA joins Global Day of Action for Qantas workers

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 16/11/2011 - 5:57pm

The Philippine Airlines Employees’ Association (PALEA) picketed the Qantas office and Australian embassy in a show of solidarity for the embattled workers of the Australian flag carrier. “We extend the hand of solidarity to our brothers and sisters at Qantas who are for fighting for job security, decent pay and better working conditions. The struggles they are waging mirror the same demands that we are currently fighting for at PAL,” declared Gerry Rivera, PALEA president and vice chair of Partido ng Manggagawa.

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Labor backflip on uranium

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 15/11/2011 - 1:41pm

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard is pressing the Australia Labor Party to overturn a decades old ban on exporting Uranium to India. Meanwhile the high echelons of the Labor Party are pushing for Labor to expand Uranium Mining within Australia. Previously Labor has rejected exporting uranium to India because it is not a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

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What is happening with the Occupy Melbourne website?

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 12/11/2011 - 5:59pm

I was just on the Occupy Melbourne website and to my surprise found I wasn't able to leave a comment there. I found this strange as previously people were able to post comments on occupymelbourne.org. Is this an intentional change, so that people can no longer have a say on that site, or has someone made a mistake somewhere?

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Cop It Sweet - Occupy Melbourne

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 30/10/2011 - 11:27pm

Over 1000 people marched from the State Library of Victoria to Treasury Gardens on 29th October 2011 as part of the ongoing Occupy Melbourne protests.

Our boys and girls in blue were on the streets again today, dodging criticism for the use of brutal strong arm tactics against the public when evicting the Occupy Melbourne protest from City Square on the 21st of October.

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Leaflet for (re)Occupy Melbourne

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 29/10/2011 - 8:35pm

Leaflet handed out at Occupy Melbourne 2.0 on 29th October

It doesn’t make any sense!

The media, the politicians, the police, all the supporters of the old world, can’t understand and won’t understand what it is we’re up to. No leaders? No demands? No point! Perplexed and threatened, they can only lie, distort, and violently suppress us.

“You’ve made your point, now move along” is their refrain, showing that they’ve completely missed the point themselves.

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