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The following article from the World Socialist Website explains how the Federal ALP is keeping the dole at $243 a week or only $35 a day to try and force people into sub-standard working conditions. To add insult to injury the minister in charge of this decision is former Union official Bill Shorten - showing once again how hostile the union bureaucracy is to ordinary people.

Australian government rejects any dole increase

By Mike Head
14 January 2012

On Jan 24th, the U.S. Congress will vote to pass internet censorship in the Senate, even though the vast majority of Americans are opposed. We need to kill the bill - PIPA in the Senate and SOPA in the House - to protect our rights to free speech, privacy, and prosperity. We need internet companies to follow Reddit's lead and stand up for the web, as we internet users are doing every day.

On Jan 18th, sites will go dark to protest the internet censorship bills. Urge the biggest sites to join the strike. Sign the Petition. Participating? Add your site to the list, and spread the word.

A colour leaflet is available advertising the 8th anniversary of 17 year old tj hickey who died as a result of a redfern police chase on st. valentine's day 2004 when he was rammed by a police vehicle that catapulted him onto a spiked fence.

on this 8th anniversary we are attempting to build our numbers to show the redfern police and the nsw government of barry o'farrell that we are not going to forget our true obligation to the memory of tj, his mother gail hickey and his sisters. as they will never forget the injustice that was done to tj on that infamous day, nor should we.

Dear Radio Friend,
The latest Shortwave Report (January 13) is up at the website http://www.outfarpress.com/shortwave.shtml in 3 forms- (new) HIGHEST QUALITY (128kb)(27MB), broadcast quality (16MB), and quickdownload or streaming form (6MB) (28:59) Links at page bottom
(If you have access to Audioport there is a highest quality version posted up there {35MB} http://www.audioport.org/index.php?op=producer-info&uid=904&nav=&)

This week's show features stories from Radio Deutsche-Welle, NHK World Radio Japan, Spanish National Radio, and Radio Havana Cuba.

Rally on and walk for justice to end Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander injustice.

It's almost three years since a police vehicle ran over Nyungar boy Rex Bellotti Junior in Albany, Western Australia and justice is yet to be served.

Rex Junior, the leading goal kicker on his Clontarf Football Academy team was not being pursued by the police, he was crossing the road when he was hit on March 10, 2009 and is now permanently impaired.

11th World Wind Energy Conference & Renewable Energy Exhibition WWEC2012

"Community Power – Citizens' Power"

Bonn, Germany, 3-5 July 2012

Call for Papers

The World Wind Energy Association WWEA and the German Wind Energy Association BWE are pleased to invite papers and presentations for the 11th World Wind Energy Conference and Exhibition WWEC2012, taking place 3-5 July 2012 in Bonn, Germany. The conference is aimed at presenting, exchanging and discussing the latest knowledge on the state of wind energy and renewable energy in general, including the state of the technology.

Some very clever climate activists have launched a National Check in with Martin Ferguson campaign on Facebook as a response to the revelations of his spying on climate activists on behalf of the coal and power multinationals - see below

Australian Taxpayers money is being spent to monitor the activities of community climate groups.

http://www.theage.com.au/environment/afp-spies-targeting-green-activists...

Three activists, by boarding the Shonan Maru 2, have highlighted to the international news media the illegal whale-slaughters by the Japanese who argue that they are doing it in the name of scientific research. Campaigners against whale slaughter argue this is not true and a ploy to circumvent a 1978 international ruling prohibiting whale poaching for commercial use, effected as a moratorium by the International Whaling Commission in 1986.

by: Paul Cleary From: The Australian January 10, 2012 12:00AM

INDIGENOUS Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin is increasingly using a burgeoning $400 million indigenous fund to pay for running costs and short-term financial fixes - actions that have attracted a warning from the Auditor-General.

The mining boom has given Ms Macklin growing financial clout as she presides over the little-known Aboriginals Benefit Account, which last year collected $155m in mining-related income and has quadrupled in size since 2004 to $412m in equity.