SYDNEY 鈥 Forty people gathered at the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) offices to hear a reports from unionists recently returned from the Alyawarr people鈥檚 walk-off in the Northern Territory, where they participated in building a house in protest against the NT intervention.
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Responding to pressure from media, the community and the federal ALP, NSW Labor Premier Kristina Keneally dropped the state鈥檚 unpopular 鈥淢etro to nowhere鈥 (planned to run from Barangaroo to Rozelle) on February 21.
The US authorities continue to harbour Branko Marinkovic, a leader of the Bolivian right-wing opposition accused of financing a terrorist cell to assassinate Bolivian President Evo Morales.
SYDNEY 鈥 Two thousand people successfully reclaimed local lanes in Newtown, Sydney, on February 13. 鈥淎 city is its people鈥, they publicly proclaimed. We want 鈥渓iving lanes鈥 said spokesperson David Bentley.
Steve Gumerungi Hodder, an Aboriginal broadcaster in Central Australia, has taken legal action against Google to compel them to remove links to a site promoting extreme racism in the guise of humour. On January 27, 麻豆传媒 Weekly ran an article by Edmund Parker arguing against using legal action in the fight against racist ideas. Hodder responds below.
A sub-editing error in 麻豆传媒 Weekly #827, in the article 鈥淭eacher activists elected to union council鈥, meant that the article gave the impression that the issue of performance pay leading up to the NSW Teachers鈥 Federation鈥檚 2009 annual conference was debated at the February 2010 Council.
Forty people attended a launch of the latest publication from Resistance Books, The Aboriginal Struggle and the Left on February 20.
Australian author and climate change commentator Clive Hamilton has revealed that prominent climate scientists have been targeted by a cyber-bullying campaign by climate change deniers.
Mamdouh Habib is joyous. The Australian citizen whose life was taken away from him by torture, harassment and abuse both here and overseas since being captured by US forces in 2001, has received acknowledgment his case can proceed.
Israeli murders of Palestinian resistance leaders are not normally condemned by Australian government ministers. Not even the 2002 murder of Salah Shehade in Gaza, in which the murder weapon was a one-tonne bomb from an F-16 jet, and 14 other people, nine of them children, were killed.
Staff at the National Archives of Australia (NAA) offices in Adelaide, Darwin and Hobart believe that the February 23 announcement not to close down these offices was a victory for people power.
Campaigning group Climate Action Hobart (CAH) held a 鈥楧ancing with the 鈥渃limate鈥 stars鈥 competition on February 26 to drawn attention to the climate policies of Tasmania鈥檚 big political parties.
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