聯There needs to be action in this country. People like yourselves can make it happen聰, Palm Island Aboriginal leader Lex Wotton, who is facing a jail sentence of 10 years, told a public meeting at the Queensland University of Technology on September 10.
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Speaking at the inaugural Ted Wheelwright Memorial Lecture for the Sydney University Department of Political Economy on September 1, Filipino anti-globalisation activist and academic Walden Bello, founding director of Focus on the Global South, contrasted the recent Beijing Olympics with the US Democrats national convention.
People in Australia are being urged to pressure the federal parliament to pass a resolution calling on the Japanese government to apologise and provide compensation to the 鈥渃omfort women鈥 of World War Two.
While 鈥淏lue Glue鈥 may sound like a new party drug, it鈥檚 in fact much more sinister and less fun. According to the company of the same name, Blue Glue is a marvel of innovation, 鈥渉elping clients create secure environments, manage information and deploy global solutions鈥, says the Defence Materiel Organisation鈥檚 website.
Tibet: A precious Human Life
By Damon Annison
Distributed by Brumby Books, $35 (pb)
By Damon Annison
Distributed by Brumby Books, $35 (pb)
More than 100 people marched through the streets on September 13 to demand their right to participate in local council elections. The action, organised by Wollongong Against Corruption, was addressed by Vicki Curran, Paul Matters and Graham Larcombe from WAC, Peter Moran from the Greens, Jess Moore from the Socialist Alliance, plus others.
Less than a week after declaring that 鈥渢he soap opera is over鈥 in New South Wales politics, new Premier Nathan Rees had to sack his police minister of three days, Matt Brown, for allegedly drunkenly 鈥渕ounting the chest鈥 of Wollongong MP Noreen Hay in a 鈥渄irty dancing鈥 party in Parliament House during the June budget session of parliament.
鈥淲e knew we had to have the support of migrant women, of the union, and of the community or we couldn鈥檛 win鈥, Robynne Murphy, from the Jobs for Women campaign (JFWC), told a September 11 forum organised by 麻豆传媒 Weekly and the Socialist Alliance.
While the violent intensity and geographical spread of the recent attacks on immigrants across South Africa certainly surprised most of us, we should not have been surprised that such attacks happened 鈥 or at the state鈥檚 response.
Below is an abridged September 5 statement by the Australia Western Sahara Association, visit .
The Stop the Eastern Terminal Substation (SETS) Action Group, in the Perth Hills area, is an outstanding example of what can be achieved by community-based action groups.
Workplace 'restructures'
In my workplace we have been suffering restructuring for the whole time I have been there, which is three years now. We have had the closing down of sites, redundancies, increased workloads, unfair rosters and restrictions
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