Over the July 9-10 weekend, the New South Wales Labor conference failed to produce a motion in support of equal marriage rights. The conference instead voted to send the decision to the ALP national conference that is to be held in December.
This motion passed despite the fact that all other ALP state conferences have passed motions in support of reforming the law to grant equal marriage rights. It also came two weeks after New York legalised same-sex marriage on June 24.
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The Victorian secretary of the Electrical Trades Union (ETU), Dean Mighell, told the July 20 that his union could not support the Gillard government鈥檚 carbon price plan.
Mighell said the scheme gives compensation payouts to the fossil fuel giants, but gives no guarantee for workers employed in coal-fired power stations in Victoria鈥檚 Latrobe valley.
Socialist Alliance Hobart branch notes the recent expressions of disillusionment with all political parties in parliament in Tasmania.
The state government continues to disappoint with its lack of transparency when it comes to funding dodgy deals such as the proposed Aprin loan (now scuttled after Gunns chose a different bidder), with its inability to support the proper funding of public services such as education and health.
The released a new document on July 20 that detailed several disastrous events over the recent wet season at the Ranger uranium mine in Kakadu national park.
The document revealed ongoing seepage from the tailings storage facility at the mine. It also said the mine was unable to effectively deal with the millions of litres of contaminated water generated.
After the initial furore of the release of thousands of secret United States embassy cables by WikiLeaks, much of the mainstream media coverage has largely ignored or hidend the most important aspect of the saga 鈥 the damning contents of the secret documents that incriminate the powerful and expose their lies.
Much of the coverage has devolved into negative stories and allegations about the personal lives of WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange and the alleged source of the secret US documents, Bradley Manning.
Sara Hudson, a research fellow at the Centre for Independent Studies, recently wrote that supported the Northern Territory intervention. It also attacked public land title in remote Aboriginal communities.
The article was what you might expect from a research fellow from the conservative think tank. "Public bad, private good", and so on. But one passage stood out to me, given I had visited many remote Aboriginal communities recently.
After 28 years, the Sydney Resistance Centre has moved to its new location at 22-36 Mountain Street, Ultimo. The new centre was officially opened on July 16. It was a special day for the Socialist Alliance national office, the Socialist Alliance Sydney branch and 麻豆传媒 Weekly.
When you鈥檙e the world鈥檚 biggest resource corporation, and aim to gouge high profits for the next century from the world鈥檚 largest mine, you probably won鈥檛 care to let environmental considerations block your path.
Add in a state government frantic to get investment dollars flowing, and the outlook for threatened species in the vicinity could be grim.
BHP Billiton is due to decide early next year whether to spend an estimated $20 billion on a massive expansion of its Olympic Dam copper, gold and uranium mine near Roxby Downs, 560 kilometres north of Adelaide.
August will mark one year since Palm Island Aboriginal leader Lex Wotton was released on parole.
Unlike the police officer charged with the 2004 murder of Palm Island resident Mulrunji Doomadgee, Wotton was jailed for taking part in the protests against Doomadgee鈥檚 death. No one was jailed for Doomadgee鈥檚 death in police custody.
Despite his release, Wotton is muzzled by parole conditions aimed to silence him. He is subject to a four-year political gag, which bans him from speaking to the media or attending meetings.
Wotton has launched a High Court challenge against the gag order.
A group of women teamed up at Tram Stop 1 on the corner of Bourke and Spencer streets on July 22 to commemorate the 42nd anniversary of a protest against women鈥檚 unequal pay by women鈥檚 liberationists Zelda D鈥橝prano and Bon Hull.
D'Aprano and Hull boarded a tram but refused to pay the full fare.
The 鈥渆qual pay team鈥 talked to commuters on the busy city tram and shared views on why women are still receiving unequal pay in Australia.
There is no denying it, depression is on the rise across the world. The World Health Organisation says depression will be the second largest contributor to the global burden of disease by 2020. For young people this is already the case. Depression leads to about 850,000 deaths every year.
But why is depression on the rise? In some instances it is a product of more readily available methods of diagnosis and public understanding of the disorder. But increases in suicide rates and other indicators suggest that the increase in depression is well beyond this statistical readjustment.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the millionaire former president of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and leader of France鈥檚 center-left Socialist Party, is charged with raping a west African immigrant housekeeper in a five-star Manhattan hotel.
But Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr seems like he wants to make the whole case go away.
After initially agreeing to US$1 million bail and house arrest, Vance arranged for Strauss-Kahn to be released without any bail. The press reported prosecutors and Strauss-Kahn鈥檚 lawyers met about a deal in which the case would be dropped.
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