鈥淓PA: Extreme Pollution A-OK鈥 read a banner held up by protesters outside Victoria鈥檚 Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) as it announced on May 20 a partial approval for the HRL Dual Gas project, which will use brown coal for electricity generation.
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Riz Wakil, an Afghan refugee, arrived on Ashmore Reef in 1999 and was held in Curtin detention centre for nine months. Now a permanent Australian resident, he runs a printery.
In June 2010, GetUp! won a charity auction prize 鈥 a surfing lesson with opposition leader Tony Abbott 鈥 and donated it to Wakil. Abbott and Wakil finally met for the surf lesson on May 8.
麻豆传媒 Weekly鈥檚 Rachel Evans spoke to Wakil about the encounter and Australia鈥檚 refugee system.
What did Abbott say during the lesson?
Child beauty pageants, such as the ones featured on the reality TV show Toddlers and Tiaras, are big business in the United States. The industry is so big that it is expanding overseas. One of the biggest pageant companies, United Royalty plans to stage pageants in all states in Australia.
Parents who wish to enter their children in the pageants have to pay $295 just to enter the pageant, plus thousands of dollars on expensive dresses, hairstyles and cosmetics
Media reports suggested that US President Barack Obama's May 19 Washington DC speech on the Middle East and North Africa contained a new proposal for peace between Israel and the Palestinians. A look at the content shows this is false.
The May 20 New York Times declared: 鈥淧resident Obama, seeking to capture a moment of epochal change in the Arab world, began a new effort [in his speech] to break the stalemate in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, setting out a new starting point for negotiations on the region's most intractable problem.鈥
The proposal for a carbon tax raises the issues of tax equity and political strategy. Yet despite their inter-relatedness, we need to disentangle these issues to focus on the original question.
The richest person in Australia this year, according to the 2011 , is mining magnate Gina Rhinehart.
Her wealth, estimated at $10.3 billion, is more than twice the amount put shopping centre tycoon in the top spot in last year鈥檚 BRW Rich List.
Rhinehart鈥檚 wealth rose $5.55 billion from 2010.
Releasing the Mid Year Financial Report in February, Tasmanian Premier Lara Giddings said savings required over the next three years would be the equivalent of 2300 jobs. She said she couldn鈥檛 rule out forced redundancies in the public service or cuts to frontline services.
On May 26, Giddings released a to parliament that said: 鈥淲e have now lost a total of around $1.5 billion in expected GST revenue and state taxes.鈥
The newly-elected Barry O鈥橣arrell Coalition government in NSW has introduced a bill that gives it unprecedented power over pay and conditions for the state's 400,000 public servants 鈥攇utting the NSW Industrial Relations Commission鈥檚 (IRC) role.
Gaza flotilla needs our support
In a few weeks time, a flotilla will be going to Gaza carrying medical supplies, food and building materials to assist the Palestinian people who have suffered grievously from the Zionist policies of the Israeli government.
麻豆传媒 Weekly, since its inception, has done a splendid job supporting the Palestinians and exposing and condemning the evil that has been inflicted on them since the Balfour Declaration of 1917.
The 鈥淏ig Four鈥 record companies, already responsible for more than 80% of album sales on the planet, may be on the verge of becoming the 鈥淏ig Three鈥.
On May 6, Warner Music Group was sold to Ukrainian-American tycoon Leonard Blavatnik.
Warner is the world's third largest record company. Blavatnik 鈥 the world's 80th richest man 鈥 is also rumored to have his sights set on number four EMI.
If that sale comes to pass, it will create the largest music label in history.
With a clearly nervous David Hicks in front of a packed audience of 1000 people at the Sydney Writers' Festival on May 22, his interviewer Donna Mulhearn did a great job in breaking the ice. 鈥淚s it true that Channel 7,鈥 she said, as we were all waiting for the hard political question, 鈥渁sked you to go on 鈥楧ancing with the Stars鈥?鈥
Apparently it is true.
The axing of 82 full-time jobs from the Fairfax Media group has prompted protests by angry Fairfax employees in Sydney and Melbourne.
Sub-editors, designers and artists will be outsourced from The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald to Pagemasters.
Furious journalists and other workers from the Fairfax media organisations vented their anger at stopwork meetings in Sydney and Melbourne on May 12 and then again at public rallies on May 19.
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