For nearly seven years, the Sandon Point Aboriginal Tent Embassy has guarded the Kuradji man burial site, artefacts and middens at Sandon Point at the bottom of Bulli Pass, in the northern Illawarra. Planning minister Frank Sartor, using recently legislated powers, has given approval to Stockland and the Anglican Retirement Village Trust for a huge development the size of a suburb on the site.
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Three-metre high security fences, heart-stopping tasers, a bone-smashing water cannon, mobile prison buses and 鈥 perhaps most disturbing of all 鈥 the threat of automatic incarceration for randomly abducted protesters? Welcome to the growing international phenomenon of 鈥減opulation control鈥. The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum is in Sydney, and NSW security chiefs are telling you to follow orders, shut up and stay away. Prison cells are ready and waiting if you fail to heed the warning.
On August 28, 100 people met at the Newcastle Town Hall to protest against the Newcastle City Council聮s proposal to close Mayfield聮s public swimming pool.
Established in December 2001, the Victorian Institute of Teaching (VIT) was set up with the stated aim of regulating and promoting the teaching profession in Victoria.
On August 25, 500 people braved unseasonal rainstorms to participate in a Walk against Warming rally for urgent action on climate change. The event was sponsored by the Queensland Conservation Council and other environment groups.
Pig City: From the Saints to Savage Garden
By Andrew Stafford
University of Queensland Press, 2004
$32.95
By Andrew Stafford
University of Queensland Press, 2004
$32.95
The following open letter to federal ALP leader Kevin Rudd and ALP industrial relations spokesperson Julia Gillard was issue on August 29 by Michele O聮Neil, national assistant secretary of the Textile, Clothing and Footwear Union of Australia (TCFUA).
On August 28, the Palestinian Authority (PA) 聯caretaker聰 government headed by Salam Fayyad announced that it would outlaw 103 charitable societies in the Israeli occupied West Bank. Fayyad, who was appointed on June 15 as PA prime minister by PA President Mahmoud Abbas of the Fatah party after Abbas dismissed the elected government of PM Ismail Haniyeh of the Hamas party, told Palestinian media these charities, most of them are affiliated with Hamas, had committed administrative and financial irregularities.
Sixty Thousand Barrels 鈥 The residents of Sydney's Botany are attempting to fight a dire environmental threat 60,000 barrels of highly toxic waste in their midst. SBS, Friday, September 7, 2.30pm.
Robert F Kennedy: The Garish Sun 鈥 Examines
Addressing thousands of members of the battalions of the new United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), packed into the Poliedro Stadium in Caracas on August 25, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called for an 聯offensive聰 to guarantee the approval in the national referendum of his proposed constitutional reforms, which he says are necessary to guarantee the country聮s transition to socialism.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown looks set to break Labour聮s 2005 election manifesto pledge to hold a referendum before Britain signs up to a new European Union constitution. At an August 22 press conference with German leader Angela Merkel, Brown announced that there was no need to hold a referendum and that the matter would instead be decided by parliament.
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