The Perth Magistrates Court has grouped a 16-year-old boy to stand trial on charges of people smuggling with two men he has never met and who were not even on the same boat.
The boy told WA-based human rights activist Gerry Georgatos he was born in 1995. From a poor family, he was hired to fish on a boat going from Indonesia to Australia. He said the immigration department insisted he was born in 1991 on the basis of a wrist x-ray. They had not contacted his mother.
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There are alternatives to the federal government鈥檚 NT intervention into Aboriginal communities, and some of the key ones have been brought together in a new statement that has won the support of Aboriginal community leaders and other groups and individuals.
The statement, 鈥淩ebuilding from the Ground Up: An Alternative to the NT Intervention鈥, is available on the .
New and contradictory details of the Australia-Malaysia refugee exchange have been brought to light, as the federal Labor government grows closer to sealing the fate of up to 800 asylum seekers.
It was a good thing when 14 Labor members of the Western Australian parliament and the federal member for Fremantle, Melissa Parke, publicly voiced their disgust that unaccompanied children would be sent to Malaysia as part of the Labor federal government鈥檚 refugee swap.
The claptrap used to sell this cruel and illogical farce is deservedly collapsing in on itself.
Federal Labor鈥檚 contradictory flip-flopping on this issue has been excruciating to watch. It鈥檚 not guided by any rational policy making, but political imagery.
Melbourne鈥檚 City of Yarra awarded the volunteer-run climate research group Beyond Zero Emissions its 2011 sustainability award for community action on June 2. BZE鈥檚 Melbourne group office is based in the Yarra council area. The council said: 鈥淏eyond Zero Emissions Inc. (BZE) is an independent, not-for-profit, volunteer-run organisation leading a 鈥榗an do鈥 campaign for climate solutions grounded in commercially available technologies and peer-reviewed research.
Marrickville Mayor Fiona Byrne has received a letter of support from South African anti-apartheid campaigner Archbishop Desmond Tutu. The letter appears below.
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Dear Mayor Fiona Byrne,
We in South Africa, who both suffered Apartheid and defeated it, have the moral right and responsibility to name and shame institutionalized separation, exclusion, and domination by one ethnic group over others. In my own eyes I have seen how the Palestinians are oppressed, dispossessed and exiled.
鈥 World Environment Day on June 5 was the rally called by an alliance of unions and NGOs like GetUp.
A large number of environmentalists, including the Greens party, rightly rejected the last attempt of the government to set a carbon price, the 鈥淐arbon Pollution Reduction Scheme鈥. It was shonky, riddled with loopholes big enough for a diesel-spewing truck to drive through.
Action outside state parliament called by homeless people of WA, in particular Corey Wilkinson a homeless man who has tried repeatedly to speak to Troy Buswell the housing minster, even chaining himself outside his office and Buswell is refusing to meet with him and any other homeless people.
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