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Kevin Rudd has betrayed his promise to take action on climate change. Click at http://www.getup.org.au/campaign/ClimateActionNow&id=1052 to hold him to account.

"Absolute political cowardice... an absolute failure of leadership."1 That's what Kevin Rudd said just months ago about those who wanted to delay action on climate change. He was right.

Yesterday Kevin Rudd betrayed his promise to act on climate change, deferring action until 2013: six years after he called climate change the moral challenge of our age.

The CSIRO is about to build a new research solar power tower at it's National Solar Energy Centre in Newcastle that uses just the sun's energy and heated air in a Brayton turbine to produce electricity. This is innovative renewable technology - the largest of its type in the world - to combat use of fossil fuels and climate change, to be built and fully operational by March 2011.

By Jake Lynch

Incarceration rates among Australia’s indigenous people bear comparison with the jailing of blacks in minority-ruled South Africa.

Aborigines make up just 2.5% of the country’s population, but they account for nearly a quarter of all prisoners.

In the Northern Territory, the ‘outback Australia’ made famous in the Crocodile Dundee films of comedian Paul Hogan, the proportion of those held under lock and key who are Aboriginal is a staggering 83%.

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Worldly views expressed by locals

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Die Welt-Ereignisse beobachtet von 2 Australier-Deutschen

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Goodooga, northwest NSW, 26 April 10 - - Aboriginal political activist, Michael Anderson, says the New Way Task Force will host the second New Way Summit at the Sydney University on the 8th and 9th May.

“This national summit will again be broadcast live throughout the internet for all to see,” Mr Anderson said, adding that the Task Force would include any feedback or discussion people may wish to engage in during the proceedings of the summit itself.

Representatives to the International Whaling Commission from a dozen countries are meeting in Washington negotiating a compromise agreement for the limited resumption of commercial whaling with strong controls for the next ten years. Conservationists from both Sea Shepherd and Greenpeace have attacked the proposal, "At the moment, it appears that the whales are making all the concessions, not the whalers and this proposal keeps dying whaling industries alive and not the whales." said Greenpeace Japan Programme Director Junichi Sato.

By GetUp!

"It looks like two-fifths of bugger all." 1

That's how today's Sydney Morning Herald described this week's announcement by the Attorney General to ignore the majority of Australians who support enshrining our rights into a Human Rights Act.

Instead, the Attorney announced a piecemeal approach including a human rights forum, more education, and parliamentary oversight (so those who write the law can police themselves). Australia now remains the only Western democracy in the world to not have formal protection of its people's rights.

By Michael J Connolly
Munda-gutta Kulliwari

Taking its lead from the white Chief Justice of the NT white Supreme Court, white university trained Brian Martin, who judged the violent race hate white mob head kicking and head bashing assaults that led to the death of an innocent Alice Springs Aboriginal man as "manslaughter by negligence" and at "lower end of seriousness", the white evening TV news called this repeated vicious conduct of racial homicide resulting from a course of repeated head-kicking and head bashing, to be "hoon driving".