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The Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance (MEAA) is considering rule changes that would see the abolition of all elected fulltime union officials. This is a radical idea and one that has hardly received any media coverage.

Can appointed staffers and a CEO really do a better job than people elected by the unions’ membership?

The health damages of the nuclear radiation in Fukushima are becoming ever clearer. Many people there complain of typical symptoms that appear as a result of irradiation.

Nose bleeding, extreme tiredness and pain in the bones are common. Ever more children are showing conspicuous changes in their thyroid gland.

The government denies any connection with the Fukushima nuclear disaster and most organized doctors play along with that.

That has left the victims to fend for themselves by trying to build their own health centre. They need financial help.

VENICE FILMFEST 2012: AN AMERICAN GRAFFITI

By Uli Schmetzer

Venice, September 8, 2012 – American films, largely absent in recent years, made a startling comeback to the 69th Venice Film Festival this month with a vivisection of an American society whose moral restraints have become as elastic as a worn rubber band, a malaise which, like American culture, has infected many parts of the world.

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

Event: 13 September 2012: various locations internationally
Fifth anniversary of the
United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Event details: http://social.un.org/index/IndigenousPeoples/DeclarationontheRightsofInd...

Event: Thu 13 September 2012: Sydney, NSW
Panel Discussion:
Does Constitutional Reform Negate Aboriginal Sovereignty
"Are Constitutional reform and Aboriginal Sovereignty
mutually exclusive?"
Led by: Professor Megan Davis,
Director of the Indigenous Law Centre,

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Event: 20 August to 14 September 2012: Yeelirrie-Leonora, WA
Walkatjurra Walkabout – Walking for Country
A one month walk from Yeelirrie to Leonora
" ... is a celebration of Wangkatja country, a testament to
the strength of the community who have fought to stop
uranium mining at Yeelirrie for over forty years, and a
chance to come together to continue share our commitment to
a sustainable future without nuclear. It is a chance to
reconnect with the land, and to revive the tradition of
walking for country."

-- Have you seen the coal seam gas (CSG) industry's latest advertising campaign? The CSIRO's slammed it for misusing their research to claim CSG is safe for Australia's precious water and aquifers. Send the CSG spin doctors a message now demanding they publicly commit to ending their campaign of lies: http://www.getup.org.au/stop-csg-lies --

Source items and links for these notes can be found at www.antinuclear.net and at www.nuclear-news.net

AUSTRALIA. It has been a seemingly quiet week in Australian nuclear news. But then, in the Australian media, it's always a quiet nuclear week. I have got a bit of a shock, in studying the media as a theme for September, that in fact - the norm for Australia is just to not know anything about nuclear issues. That's how the nuclear lobby, government and mainstream media like it.