Momentum is building in solidarity with a couple from Cairns who have been charged under Queensland鈥檚 anti-abortion laws (see article on page 12). The couple is to face court in Cairns on October 12, and the Pro-Choice Action collective, Women鈥檚 Abortion Action Campaign, and Radical Women have issued a call for a National Day of Action to be held on Saturday October 9. The rallies will demand the dropping of the charges, repealing of the anti-abortion laws and free, safe, accessible abortion on demand.
Kamala Emanuel
The Socialist Ideas Conference, organised by the Socialist Alliance in Perth, is shaping up to be the biggest and most interesting socialist event in Perth for some time.
Alongside international guests such as Malaysian socialist parliamentarian Jeyakumar Devaraj and 麻豆传媒 Weekly Caracas bureau journalist Kiraz Janicke, a number of respected speakers have confirmed their attendance in recent weeks.
"Say no to Roe!", chanted more than 100 people at a rally outside state parliament on April 22.
The rally was organised to oppose a five-kilometre freeway extension (Roe stage 8) between the Kwinana Freeway and Stock Road in Melville, south of Perth.
Speakers said the proposed extension was expensive, unnecessary and environmentally destructive. It would desecrate Noongar sacred sites and threaten the endangered species.
鈥淭here are two messages we want to get across as part of our campaign in the federal elections鈥, Socialist Alliance candidate Alex Bainbridge told 麻豆传媒 Weekly.
A speak-out against the Labor-Liberal dirty deal on the proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) was held in Perth on November 26. The action was organised by the Coalition for a Safe Climate.
Family First Senator Steve Fielding returned from a US international climate deniers' conference in June, armed with a shonky graph and some dodgy questions.
PERTH 鈥 Twenty 鈥渂illionaires for coal鈥 and their supporters held a mock rally on the steps of Woodside Plaza on August 11, as parliament resumed for the session that was to vote on the Rudd government's proposed emissions trading scheme.
Greens candidate Adele Carles is set to win a historic victory at the May 16 by-election 鈥 the first time the Greens have won a lower house seat in Western Australia. Carles polled 44% of primary votes and 54% of two-party preferred votes at the close of counting on election night.
The Australian Greens鈥 March 21-22 national council meeting in Perth discussed the party鈥檚 climate change policy. The council called on the Rudd government to adopt stronger emissions reduction targets.
Climate activists have been campaigning against the government聮s so-called Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) long before the exposure legislation was tabled in parliament on March 10.
The only hope for stopping climate change is the political movement fostered by the recent Climate Action Summit and the groups forming all over the country, according to author Clive Hamilton at a February 25 meeting at the University of Western Australia.
Inspired by the January 31-February 3 national Climate Action Summit in Canberra, on February 21 WA activists formed the Coalition for a Safe Climate.
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