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Students, staff, and parents from Brunswick West Primary School joined FairWear campaigners and members of the Textile, Clothing and Footwear Union of Australia in an action highlighting that school's commitment to ethical uniforms, with a follow-up at the Thomastown outlet of BuxWear, where they awarded the company a 'Fail' report card for its use of sweatshop labour.

Germany's nuclear power plant operators have threatened to pull out of nuclear power generation in protest of a proposed tax. The general debate over the future of German nuclear power has heated up again.

Controversial negotiations are underway in Germany between the government and energy providers as companies threaten to shut down their nuclear power plants over a proposed tax on fuel rods and Germany's debate over its nuclear energy future reignites.

Today rallies were held around the country to pressure the major parties to change their policies on banning same sex marriage on the sixth anniversary of Federal Parliament amended the Marriage Act to exclude same sex couples . Here is some video of Melbourne Rally .

Photos from John Wilson

Picture: Najeeba with her younger brother Mahdi.

By Graham Thom

"We had to push our way onto the boat, people were screaming and pushing each other out of the way. It was so crowded we had to sit with our knees squashed against our chests for 10 whole days. No one knew how to swim. At the end of the journey, the boat got a hole and people were fighting for life jackets. We didn’t get one. If the Australian Navy hadn’t reached us, we would have died."

NZ Green Party MP Keith Locke was one of those who addressed a 500-600 strong gathering outside the Melbourne Town Hall last night at the end of a rally called by the Refugee Action Collective under the banner "Stand Up For Refugees".

This is a smoke alarm alert. You are most likely to be using the wrong type of smoke alarm which may not operate in time to alert you early enough to escape from smouldering fires.

People are dying, or thinking they are lucky to have escaped their house fire in their pyjamas, whereas their house could also have been saved if they had installed a different type of smoke alarm.

http://media.libsyn.com/media/kaputtradio/kr__164_vote_for_nuthin.mp3

collage of events around a largely meaningless election in Australia

publicly funded media, youtube vintage excerpts

Vote shoe boat people by Chaser, Will Anderson, now show excerpt, Russel Brand, Tony Abbott Perfect by glenop, The Fundamentalist Adventures Of Tony Abbott - A Musical by Toby Thornett, Paul Keating, unknown poetry and jazz

length 28:26 min 128 kbps stereo 26.1 MB

By Arkin Mackay

Dam and Blast!

Just when we thought the pressure was off the Mary Valley for a while after the scrapping of Traveston Dam, there's a new threat to the area. A proposal currently being assessed by Gympie Regional Council could see the Moy Pocket quarry in the Sunshine Coast Hinterland become the site for an explosives storage and distribution facility that would provide explosives for extractive industry operations throughout south-east Queensland.

What does this mean?

by ray jackson

whilst i am all in favour of our mobs being in both the australian constitution, along with any future bill of rights, i also see the process as being fraught with problems. problems that i see as only being solvable, in the main, by the atsi peoples initially.

whilst it cannot be argued against that south australia has the strongest and legal basis for their traditional lands, based on the historical letters patent being ignored by 'settlers' and sa governments, all the other aboriginal nations must be equal to the sa position for the return of their lands.