Newswire

Charges against Musgrave Park tent embassy protesters dropped

Submitted by Diet Simon on Thu, 21/06/2012 - 12:08pm

POLICE have dropped charges against five activists arrested in the wake of a last month's fiery protest at Musgrave Park.

Prosecutor Rob Lamason told the Brisbane Magistrates Court police offered no evidence against the men - all wearing clothing emblazoned with Electrical Trades Union insignia - arrested during the protest at the Aboriginal Sovereign Embassy at West End, in Brisbane's inner-city

Background to the Ampilatwatja Anti-Intervention Walk-off, Northern Territory (NT), Australia

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Thu, 21/06/2012 - 12:02pm

Last updated: 30 December 2012

ABC The Drum Opinion: The true path to stronger Indigenous futures (18 Jun 12)
By Richard Downs, a leader of the Alyawarra nation and of the Ampilatwatja walk-off
http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/4076734.html

WGAR News: Ampilatwatja Community Leaders give their full support to Yolngu Nations Assembly (30 May 12)
http://indymedia.org.au/2012/05/30/wgar-news-ampilatwatja-community-lead...

Intervention walkoff's Blog - Videos
http://interventionwalkoff.wordpress.com/video/

Intervention walkoff's Blog

Keywords: 
Richard Downs - a leader of the Alyawarra nation and of the Ampilatwatja walk-off

Navy chief raped us said two sailors - one of many such complaints

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Wed, 20/06/2012 - 7:08pm

Two retired sailors have accused a former top navy officer of raping them aboard the ship he commanded in 1973. I know both these men and they are telling the truth. For far too long they have been denied all forms of justice and one of these men had his pension denied as the Navy Chief had gone to great lengths to silence him.

Geography: 
Perth
Global/International
Australia
Promotion: 
Feature
Keywords: 
Sexual assualt
Australian military

Dexamphetamine and ADHD cons - Mental health policies must move from medication to recovery

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Wed, 20/06/2012 - 11:15am

Gerry Georgatos
"In Western Australia, 1989, 880 people were prescribed stimulant medication (for ADHD). By the year 2000 this had increased to 20,648, with the WA Health Department estimating 18,000 prescriptions having been issued to children. By 2002 WA prescription rates were amongst the highest in the world, exceeding the US national average,” said Martin Whitely.

Geography: 
ACT
Canberra
Adelaide
Perth
Brisbane
Darwin
Hobart
Global/International
Geelong
Albury
New South Wales
Melbourne
Newcastle
Cairns
Launceston
Australia
Northern Territory
Sydney
Gold Coast
Queensland
Wollongong
Sunshine Coast
South Australia
Toowoomba
Tasmania
Townsville
Victoria
Western Australia
Promotion: 
Feature

Carbon capture and storage and the Melbourne earthquake

Submitted by takver on Wed, 20/06/2012 - 4:27am

Melbourne: Did the earth move for you last night? It did for me. Melbourne experienced one of the strongest earthquakes for many many years. Now consider what it might do if we had a couple of billion tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) geosequested beneath Southern Victoria and under Bass Strait. Because that is what Premier Ted Baillieu and Federal Resources and Energy Minister Martin Ferguson have planned.

Geography: 
Victoria
Keywords: 
coal
carbon capture
Earthquake

Ratify and implement ILO Convention 189 on Decent Work for Domestic Workers now!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 19/06/2012 - 9:05pm

Statement for International Domestic Workers Day

Today, as we commemorate the first anniversary of the adoption of ILO Convention 189 (C189) on Decent Work for Domestic Workers, we call on ILO Member States to immediately ratify and implement C189 as a demonstration of their global commitment made at the 100th Session of the International Labour Conference on 16 June 2011.

Ratifying C189 is important, urgent and a priority! Wide ratifications of C189 would benefit an estimated 100 million domestic workers around the world who for long have been unrecognized, neglected, and forgotten.

Keywords: 
protest
human rights
solidarity
International news and opinion

Larissa Waters in Rio for The Greens

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 19/06/2012 - 2:03pm

Greens Senator Larissa Waters is in Rio de Janeiro representing the Australian Greens at the UN Earth Summit.

In an email to Greens members she writes that on the first day she participated in the GLOBE legislators forum, where Parliamentarians from parliaments all over the world got together to share ideas, stories and to commit to holding governments to account: "It’s not enough to walk the walk, they have to talk the talk."

She signed the commitment to continue to push Australia to pass and enforce strong laws to protect the climate, biodiversity and our natural treasures.

Malcolm Fraser and Gough Whitlam, an alliance of views calling out to the Australian consciousness

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Tue, 19/06/2012 - 11:07am

On Jun 06, 2012 former Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser delivered the 2012 Whitlam Oration to the Whitlam Institute in Sydney. Despite the chasm of differences and political ambitions of Malcolm Fraser and Gough Whitlam they are both a far cry from the bottom of the barrel politics and personal ambitions of some our nation's contemporary crop of most prominent politicians.

Geography: 
ACT
Global/International
New South Wales
Australia
Northern Territory
Sydney
Queensland
South Australia
Tasmania
Victoria
Western Australia
Promotion: 
Feature
Keywords: 
asylum seekers

Malcolm Fraser writes Tony Abbott and Scott Morrison have nothing to be proud about in their race to the bottom of the barrel

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Tue, 19/06/2012 - 10:20am

From occasional commentator and former PM, Malcom Fraser, via http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/abbotts-evil-policy-work-20120617...

The Coalition's latest asylum seeker plan is inhumane and lacks integrity.

TONY Abbott and Scott Morrison recently stood in front of Australia and proudly presented the Coalition's plan to ''ensure integrity and restore confidence in refugee assessment''. There is not much to be proud about in this policy. The announcement was based on misinformed and misleading information that plays straight into the unfounded public fear of asylum seekers.

Geography: 
ACT
Canberra
Adelaide
Perth
Brisbane
Darwin
Hobart
Global/International
Geelong
Albury
New South Wales
Melbourne
Newcastle
Cairns
Launceston
Australia
Northern Territory
Sydney
Gold Coast
Queensland
Wollongong
Sunshine Coast
South Australia
Toowoomba
Tasmania
Townsville
Victoria
Western Australia

fbi operative admits to cyberstalking and more

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 19/06/2012 - 5:37am

fbi assassins (i.e. J. Robert Upton) show their evil intent
by geral | 06.18.2012
Journey if you will into the sick criminal minds of fbi/cia homicidal sociopaths & operatives by reading their comments and threats to this Target.For example see comments by assassin J. Robert Upton (the living dead) at the following links:

http://barbarahartwellvscia.blogspot.com/2012/03/must-prosecute-fbicia-a...

http://www.phillyimc.org/en/evidence-fundamental-corruption-usa

http://phillyimc.org/en/fbi-shill-j-robert-upton-continues-uninterrupted...

Geography: 
Global/International
Keywords: 
FBI

Occupy Melbourne Reflects

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 18/06/2012 - 8:50pm

Since the fateful eviction day of the 21st of October 2011, the diaspora of those who participated in or bore witness to Occupy Melbourne have continued to engage with the global Occupy movement in a multitude of ways. Many have remained close to those networks that were cemented in the City Square occupation, others have moved on to new activist projects, returned to old projects, or possibly dissociated themselves from the Occupy Melbourne protest altogether.

Geography: 
Melbourne
Keywords: 
protest
solidarity

The Avengers: A love letter to the War on Terror

Submitted by Sasha Brown on Mon, 18/06/2012 - 8:43pm

When you go to see a Hollywood superhero movie you should expect a little glib American patriotism, however Joss Whedon’s The Avengers is much more than this. It endorses the worst aspects of the “War on Terror” including the idea high tech surveillance and torture keep us safe, that unilateral U.S. military power will save the world and that Americans needs to unite around patriotism to defeat its enemies. Ominously The Avengers can be seen as ideologically not just glorifying existing U.S. wars but helping to prepare the country for the next World War.

Geography: 
Global/International
Australia
Keywords: 
The Avengers
U.S. militarism
Hollywood

Sprinter Peter Norman a forgotten hero, maligned by media and the pompous Australian establishment

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 17/06/2012 - 11:18pm

A FORGOTTEN HERO

By Uli Schmetzer
www.uli-schmetzer.com

When two Americans raised their fists in the Black Power salute in 1968 no one paid much attention to the third man. After all he had not raised his own fist though pinned to his chest was a button demanding equal rights for all mankind no matter what their color or creed.
The button-badge would become the cross Peter Norman carried for the rest of his life.

Geography: 
Global/International
Keywords: 
International news and opinion
more