NT Consultation Report 2011 鈥 By Quotations
Published by Concerned Australians
72 pages, hardcover, $15
www.concernedaustralians.com.au
The latest Concerned Australians book, NT Consultation Report 2011 鈥 By Quotations, couldn鈥檛 have been released at a better time.
The simple but powerful collection of quotes are selected from the federal government鈥檚 Stronger Futures consultations, conducted across the Northern Territory between June and August last year.
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Ugandan newspaper the Observer reported on March 2 serious allegations against Ugandan troops in the Central African Republic (CAR), where they have been present since 2007, chasing the remnants of the Ugandan militia, the Lord鈥檚 Resistance Army (LRA).
The Solidarity Choir in Sydney is celebrating its 25th anniversary on March 31. The event will take place from 7.30pm upstairs at the Gaelic Club, 10 Devonshire St, Surry Hills, near Central Station.
Anti-women campaigners in the Republican Party are dominating the discussion in mainstream politics and the Democrats' response has been to let them, says the February 29 Socialist Worker editorial that is reprinted below.
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"Virginia is for lovers," goes the state's tourism motto. But if its right-wing politicians get their way, Virginia will be for turning women into human incubators.
Mike Crook, the Socialist Alliance candidate for Sandgate in the March 24 Queensland state elections, is a former ALP member, who radicalised when working on construction and mining projects over many years.
A public forum 鈥淏eyond the Carbon Price鈥 will take place at NSW Parliament House on April 27 to open the fourth Climate Action Summit, to be held at the University of Western Sydney over April 27-29.
A diverse panel of speakers will engage with the question of how Australia should tackle climate change now that the carbon price has been adopted.
A 鈥渇ree trade agreement鈥 being negotiated by Australia, the United States and other countries could have profound impacts on crucial public policy issues including food security, natural resource management, access to essential medicines, public assets and more.
Negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) 鈥 including Australia, the US, New Zealand, Chile, Peru, Singapore, Brunei, Malaysia and Vietnam 鈥 are taking place in unprecedented secrecy.
Despite the NSW government's promise to rule out sensitive areas to coal seam gas (CSG) activity, the long-awaited Strategic Regional Land Use Plan and Aquifer Interference Policy means 鈥渆very part of NSW is still up for grabs鈥, Jess Moore from Stop CSG Illawarra said on March 6. Liberal premier Barry O鈥橣arrell鈥檚 government policy is 鈥渁 disaster and a broken election promise鈥. Moore said 鈥渘o areas are off limits to CSG鈥.
More than 50 people rallied outside the Perth headquarters of British multinational corporation Serco on March 9 to protest against the company's ongoing push to privatise and take over public services. Serco runs Australia鈥檚 immigration detention centres and is responsible for implementing the oppressive government policy of mandatory detention.
A telling quote in the film KONY 2012 says: 鈥淲ho are you to stop a war? 鈥 the question is, who are you not to?鈥 I think the question that the people behind KONY 2012, which went viral on the internet on March 7, need to be asked is: 鈥淲ho are you to start one?鈥 Joseph Kony, the leader of the Lord鈥檚 Resistance Army in eastern Africa, is a bad man.
After eight months of campaigning by Victoria鈥檚 nurses to keep staff-to-patient ratios and win a wage rise there may be a breakthrough in the dispute.
On March 7, the Ted Baillieu Coalition state government finally offered to begin new negotiations with the Australian Nursing Federation (ANF) though a conciliation process overseen by Fair Work Australia.
The advertising industry is insidious. A massive US$464 billion was estimated to have been spent in 2011. Next year it is tipped to grow by another US$22 billion despite the ongoing economic crisis in Europe and the US.
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