Most of us protesters were across the road from the Sofitel Wentworth luxury hotel in the heart of Sydney鈥檚 business district where the $900-a-head NSW Mineral Exploration and Investment Conference was underway on August 18.
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The people of Koonawarra, Berkeley, Warrawong and Port Kembla are being neglected while redevelopments such as the Blue Mile (a foreshore development around Wollongong harbour) and $14 million Wollongong mall makeover soak up limited funds, say Community Voice Ward 3 candidates for council elections Adrianne Talbot-Thomson and Ken Davis.
鈥淐ouncil鈥檚 city-centric approach needs to be replaced with a more geographically equitable distribution of resources, services and projects,鈥 said Talbot-Thomson.
Magdalena Sitorus, head of Friends of Indonesian Children and Women, and solicitor Edwina Lloyd spoke at a forum on people smuggling on August 15, hosted by Indonesian Solidarity at Amnesty International鈥檚 Sydney offices.
Sitorus provided background on the status of children in Indonesian law.
That day Lloyd had represented an Indonesian boy imprisoned on a charge of people smuggling, at his first age determination hearing at Bankstown Court. So many people are facing people smuggling charges in Indonesia that Monday is known as 鈥減eople smuggling day鈥, she said.
Angeline Loh, who works with the Malaysian human rights groups , will join close to a dozen international guest speakers at the World at a Crossroads, , which will be held at the University of Melbourne over September 30 to October 3.
After the riots in Britain, magistrates were advised to 鈥渄isregard normal sentencing鈥 when examining the cases of people involved. The result of this is a rapid rate of convictions and a complete lack of proportion between the crimes committed and the sentences delivered.
Chile is becoming a part of the global movement of youth that is transforming the world bit by bit.
Weeks of demonstrations and strikes by Chilean students came to a head on August 9, as an estimated 100,000 people poured into the streets of Santiago.
Joined by professors and educators, they demanded a free education for all from primary school to university.
Police fired tear gas canisters into the crowds and 273 people were arrested.
Dart Energy company executives, accompanied by their minders, were roasted at a 200-strong Town Hall community meeting on August 16 in the inner city suburb of St Peters. Dart is the coal seam gas company with a licence to explore for coal seam gas under the whole of the Sydney basin.
Dart CEO Robbert de Weijer unsuccessfully tried to allay community fears about a number of issues. He argued it was 鈥渦nlikely鈥 drilling would even happen in St Peters and that the company doesn鈥檛 use the controversial fracking (hydraulic fracturing) process or BTEX chemicals (Benzine and similar toxins).
Federal Labor MP Anna Burke captured the Gillard government鈥檚 increasingly right-wing refugee policy when she said plans to reopen the Manus Island detention centre in Papua New Guinea would be 鈥済oing back to something we said we wouldn鈥檛 do, which is the Pacific solution鈥.
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A Rohingyan Burmese asylum seeker faced Darwin Magistrates court on August 15, charged with assaulting a Serco employee at the Nothern Immigration Detention Centre (NIDC) early on August 12. Serco is the private prison corporation that runs Australia鈥檚 immigration jails.
The refugee was involved, with two others, in a two-hour peaceful protest earlier that night.
He has been in detention for 21 months. The immigration department has granted him refugee status, but for more than a year he has been waiting for an ASIO security clearance.
Video footage and photos of the unfurling of the giant "Enough Is Enough: Stop Coal & Gas Expansion" banner by two activists who abseiled down the front of the hotel where mining company executives were meeting to plan the wholesale exploitation of NSW even at the cost of communities and the environment.
A new picket line was set up on August 10 to defend Melbourne鈥檚 only Indigenous school, Ballerrt Mooroop College (BMC) in Glenroy.
The day before, electricity was cut to the school gym and the locks were changed as the education department announced that the school gym/community hall (which is a traditional gathering place), the spirit tree and the ceremonial grounds would be demolished to make way for the Glenroy Specialist School (GSS) to come on the site, leaving the BMC with only a few classrooms.
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