Thirty five people attended a forum on June 25 entitled 鈥100% Equality鈥 hosted by WA Greens MLC and spokesperson for diversity, gender and sexuality, Lynn Maclaren.
The forum discussed the campaign for marriage equality and other issues facing the lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex community.
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Three Tamil asylum seekers from Sri Lanka detained in Maribyrnong detention centre have agreed to share their experiences with 麻豆传媒 Weekly. They are terrified that talking to journalists may cause their applications for refugee status to be impeded or denied. Due to this fear, these three men have agreed to share their experiences on the condition of anonymity.
If you are reading this column, then 麻豆传媒 Weekly has successfully completed its move to its new home in Sydney.
In the process, we have missed only a week of publication thanks to the volunteers who joined the ant army that carried all we needed down those flights of stairs in our old home, loaded the hire truck and emptied it into the new office 鈥 over and over again.
Our sparkling new premises is wheelchair friendly and accessible through a lift. So moving in was a lot easier than moving out 鈥 and the latter is far from over.
The NSW Roads and Traffic Authority (RTA) is continuing to build the Bulahdelah bypass, north of Newcastle, despite a community campaign to halt the project.
The bypass road was first proposed in 2000. Three main routes were canvassed: one to the west of the town, passing through several flat paddocks; another to the east, cutting through the foot of the Alum mountain; and an option that involved widening the existing road.
The safer, more geologically stable and slightly western route was ditched in favour of the mountain route.
A prepared for the Australian Coal Association titled Impact of Proposed Carbon Tax on Black Coal mining claims that the government鈥檚 proposed carbon tax is going to cause eight coal mines to close prematurely and will cost thousands of jobs between now and 2021.
The report claimed 4700 jobs would be lost from existing coalmines due to the carbon price
Plans to give refugees deported from Australia a 鈥渟pecial barcode鈥 when they arrive in Malaysia were revealed by the June 29 Daily Telegraph. A final refugee swap deal between Australia and Malaysia is likely to be announced this month.
More than 340 refugees have arrived since Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced the plan on May 7 to 鈥渟wap鈥 800 asylum seekers in Australia for 4000 鈥減rocessed refugees鈥 in Malaysia. The refugees affected by the deal are being held in various stages of isolation on Christmas Island.
About 50 people attended a forum on July 8 titled "Rebuilding from the Ground Up: alternatives to the failed NT Intervention".
The meeting heard from Valerie Martin, a Yuendumu resident in the Northern Territory, which is one of the "hub towns" under the government鈥檚 Northern Territory Intervention.
She took part in the Prescribed Area People's Alliance conference in Darwin in June, which launched the 鈥淩ebuilding from the Ground Up鈥 document.
Joint international solidarity statement to free the PSM detainees.
Sixty people, representing a broad cross section of the activist left and progressive movement, met on July 5 to discuss the implications of the vicious police assault demonstrators protesting outside Israeli-owned chocolate company Max Brenner on July 1.
The key issue debated was whether to set up a broader civil liberties campaign or whether to keep the focus on the 19 people who had been arrested at an action as part of the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel.
The NSW Nature Conservation Council released the statement below on July 5.
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In a first for NSW, peaceful protesters have this morning stopped a coal seam gas exploration rig in the Pilliga Forest, south of Narrabri. One protester in climbing gear is suspended high above the ground at the top of a 25 metre rig at an Eastern Star Gas operation, with another group of protesters on site.
The 12,000 who rallied outside parliament house against NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell鈥檚 鈥渨orse than WorkChoices鈥 laws on June 15 showed how much anger there is about his attack on public sector workers.
A continued campaign of protests and industrial action can make it impossible for him to use these laws.
It's not good enough to simply focus on the hope of voting out O'Farrell at the next election 鈥 which is four years away.
A small but spirited group of protesters braved driving wind and rain outside Fremantle鈥檚 Notre Dame University on the evening of June 30 to express their opposition to the university playing host to British climate change denier Christopher Monckton.
Earlier that day, Perth's daily newspaper The West Australian had obligingly provided free publicity for Monckton鈥檚 impending speech in an article occupying most of its front page.
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