鈥淚f you are still in the Labor Party today, you should be ashamed of yourself鈥, 71-year-old Aboriginal activist Pat Eatock called out to delegates entering the stage-managed proceedings of the first day of the ALP national conference.
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The Palestine solidarity group Students for Palestine organised a successful fundraising dinner at the Rockdale Town Hall in Sydney鈥檚 south on July 24. Indigenous activist Jenny Munro delivered a welcome to country to kick off a fabulous night of entertainment, food, culture and fundraising.
The Spartacus WarBy Barry StraussWeidenfeld & Nicolson, 2009240 pages, $55 (hb)
Construction giant John Holland was the first employer to lodge an application with Labor鈥檚 new Fair Work Australia industrial umpire. It asked FWA to rule on which union has coverage at its controversial West Gate Bridge site in Melbourne.
鈥淗elp us, do something for us 鈥 but the way we want them to be done. Talk to us鈥, Alice Springs town camp resident Audrey McCormack pleaded of ALP conference delegates.
Victoria鈥檚 record six-month dry spell has raised fears that the summer of 2009-10 will be worse than last year, when hundreds died in the Black Saturday bushfires and the record-breaking heatwave that preceded them.
The Religious Right at the Crossroads 鈥 The 2008 US presidential election was a watershed moment in US politics, shattering the decades-old alliance between the Republican Party and conservative evangelical Christians. SBS1, Monday, August 10,
Right-wing, religiously driven sex education policies introduced by the administration of president George Bush Jnr have had disastrous results for the sexual and reproductive health of US youth, a July 17 report by the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said.
鈥淲e've had the gun at our head.鈥 This is what William Tilmouth, Tangentyere Council CEO, said in response to Aboriginal affairs minister Jenny Macklin's triumphant July 29 announcement that the council had agreed to lease Alice Springs town camps to the federal government for 40 years in exchange for $135 million in housing upgrades
Environment groups are organising a 鈥減eaceful community mass civil disobedience鈥 at the Hazelwood coal-fired power station in the Latrobe Valley on September 13.
MELBOURNE鈥 Locked-out Hazelwood power station workers and supporters staged a protest outside International Power鈥檚 offices on July 31. The Latrobe Valley emergency service officers employed by contractor Diamond Protection, were locked out after taking industrial action over a claim for pay parity.
Months after the murder of prominent journalist Lasantha Wickrematunge in Sri Lanka, more journalists have been attacked as part of the Sri Lankan government鈥檚 war on free speech.
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