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Refugee Advocacy Network Press Release Mandatory detention is an inhumane policy that victimises vulnerable people who have committed no crime. It is time to end this unjust policy. In the name of protecting Australian borders, innocent individuals have been deprived of their right to freedom, separated from their families and endured severe mental distress.

Newsletter date: 18 June 2011

Contents:
* NT nuclear waste dump protest and debate in Senate
* Central Land Council critical of Muckaty proposal
* Background to Muckaty nuclear waste dump
* Native Title
* Northern Territory (NT) Intervention articles
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
* Other Aboriginal articles

NT NUCLEAR WASTE DUMP PROTEST AND DEBATE IN SENATE:

- Speeches

Greens: Scott Ludlam: The debate on the Radioactive Waste Management Act
http://scott-ludlam.greensmps.org.au/content/debate-radioactive-waste-ma...

Although the Superannuation Guarantee (SG) is mandated by the Federal Government, it isn't classified as a tax because it isn't paid to the Government...

In all other respects, however, Australia's federally mandated, employer-funded 9% superannuation contribution is equivalent to a federally-FUNDED 9% contribution (whereby the highest-paid workers get the biggest subsidies to their saving), financed by a 9% federal payroll tax (which is regressive and inefficient...)...

To the factionistas and thuggerists, we’re taking it back. We want a Prime Minister made of skin and bone, not wood. We want to know our leader is smarter than us, or at the very least smarter than the NSW right. Bring Kev back before it’s too late. Before Tony Abbott and Andrew Bolt lead the country back into the dark ages.

http://www.redbubble.com/people/realism/t-shirts/6986139-kevin-11-paybac...

Charges were dismissed against 49 climate activists under a section 10 ruling by an East Maitland Court magistrate yesterday. The protesters had committed non-violent civil disobedience at a climate camp against a new coal fired power station being built in the Hunter Valley in December 2010. The section 10 ruling means they have no conviction recorded, no criminal record and their fines dropped.

8 June was a National Day of Action, with rallies across Australia demanding pay equity for workers in the community and health sector. The rally in Melbourne was held in wet and wintry conditions, but as one speaker said, these did not dampen workers’ resolve to pursue the pay increases that Fair Work Australia had just announced they were entitled to. Several thousand gathered outside Trades Hall to hear speakers before marching through the CBD to Parliament House to make their voices heard there.

Labours – people's party or criminals? Open letter

Crime against society

Adelaide 31/5/11

Is it possible to represent and fulfil everybody's wish and desire?

Don't labours claim that they represent all of us? Don't labours take all of our money in taxes and other charges? Don't labour make rules affecting all of us?

What are the duties and responsibilities of the labour rulers?

A group of students gathered outside of one of Max Brenner's franchise cafes in Sydney in protest at its support for the Israeli army. The protest is part of the global Boycott Divestment and Sanctions, or BDS campaign, which was called from a broad cross-section of Palestinian civil society organisations in 2005.

Max Brenner is a chocolate retailer owned by the Strauss Group, which is the second largest Israeli food and beverage company and is largely touted as one of the greatest successes of Israeli industry.

Australia could be landed with a dependent NZ if we become part of Australia. In my view, we will be like 'an anchor around your neck'. Our collectivist bill of rights, Australia is also seriously considering a bill of rights, is reducing the population to a state of dependency. I consider, if we join with Australia it should be a matter of mutual choice and not out of our desperation by our being reduced to 'third world status' and the 'begging bowl'. But I do think God is defending New Zealand.

Fear of Freedom: collectivist bill of rights reducing New Zealanders to dependency.