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Farmers return home from Qld gasfield tour

Lock the Gate released this statement on July 29. *** A group of 20 residents living near the proposed Santos Narrabri Gas Project in northwest NSW have returned home in a state of shock after a tour of coal seam gas developments in Queensland. The group took a flight over extensive gasfields south of Chinchilla, spent six hours driving through Santos' 鈥淔airview鈥 gasfields northeast of Roma and have returned determined to prevent a similar invasion in northwest NSW.

NSW Labor ignores calls to democratise party

Before the 2007 federal election, former Labor minister and ex-party president Barry Jones made a striking analogy between the ALP鈥檚 factionalism and its predilection for selling public assets. He said: 鈥淭he ALP has been privatised and factions are majority and minority stakeholders, run by professional managers, some now in the third generation.鈥 Less than 18 months later, Queensland Labor Premier Anna Bligh won a state election on a platform that made no mention of privatisation.

Appeal: Help Gaza recover

On the recommendation of Shamikh Badra from the Palestinian People's Party in Gaza, the Socialist Alliance in Australia is launching a special appeal for funds to help the Palestinian people recover from Israel's latest genocidal war. All funds collected will be divided between and the Palestinian Agricultural and Development Association (PARC).

麻豆传媒 Weekly: your weekly dose of truth-telling

"Is that the truth, or did you read it in the Murdoch press?" is a well-known slogan in social media these days. Public confidence in the mainstream media generally is at an all-time low. Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Foreign Minister Julie Bishop have been reborn as international statespeople over the shooting down of the Malaysian airliner in eastern Ukraine, if you can believe the coverage in the Australian mainstream media. Only in 麻豆传媒 Weekly will you read the truth that the government have been exploiting the tragedy to deflect attention from an unpopular budget.

Australian unions condemn Israel鈥檚 assault on Palestine

These two resolutions were passed on July 25. *** Australian Education Union The Australian Education Union (AEU) Victoria Branch condemns Israel鈥檚 latest horrific assault on the people of Palestine, which has resulted in over 750 deaths in the past three weeks 鈥 the overwhelming majority of the dead being civilians, and many of them children. The AEU supports the peaceful community protests called in solidarity with the people of Palestine, to be held on August 1 at 5pm, outside the State Library in Swanston Street, Melbourne.