The tour has been called one of the most ambitious of all time. The show has been called one of the greatest.
Since The Wall tour started in late 2010, Roger Waters has awed hundreds of thousands of people with this astounding and complex show. And he鈥檚 taking it to one of the sites of of intense social struggle in July 鈥 Quebec, in support of the huge student struggle that has broken out there.
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The Indonesian government has engaged in a spin campaign over the recent wave of mysterious shootings in Indonesian-occupied West Papua in an attempt to derail the struggle for independence.
With no evidence, Indonesian police have blamed the shootings on the Free Papua Movement (OPM) and its armed wing, the National Liberation Army. Several Papuan independence activists were killed, along with others wounded or killed since the attacks began in late May.
The student movement in Quebec is facing a crucial summer of discussion and organising.
Law 78, which suspended classes at strike-bound institutions in May, directs their resumption in mid-August. The government of Liberal Party Premier Jean Charest is preparing a judicial and police assault against striking students and their associations. It aims to force open school doors and see its proposed 82% university tuition fee hike over seven years prevail.
So now we have a carbon price in Australia. The sky hasn鈥檛 fallen in but neither are we getting anywhere near doing what needs to be done to respond to the climate change crisis.
Australia currently gets its energy in this mix:
鈥 Fossil fuels: 95%, comprising coal: 39%, gas: 22%, petroleum: 35%
鈥 Renewables: a miserable 5%.
According to the Labor government's own projections, with the carbon price, by 2035 Australia's energy mix will be:
鈥 Fossil fuels: 91%, comprising less coal at 21%, more gas at 35%, petroleum: 36%
鈥 Renewables: rising slightly to 9%.
Australia鈥檚 parliament voted to set up the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) on June 26. The law was backed by Labor and Greens MPs. Mainstream environment groups have welcomed the initiative, saying the CEFC will make $10 billion available to fund clean energy.
With the dire warnings from climate scientists about the need to cut carbon emissions quickly, such a big investment in clean energy sounds like a good thing. But there is a catch: most of the money won鈥檛 be spent on clean energy at all.
Californian hardcore punk band Death By Stereo have long been known for their politically charged lyrics, energising the scene with their debut If Looks Could Kill, I'd Watch You Die 13 years ago.
July 1 is the new financial year and the start of many new government policies. This year, the carbon and mining taxes, and expansion of income management, or welfare quarantining, to five new locations.聽
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People receiving Centrelink payments and living in Playford in South Australia, Logan and Rockhampton in Queensland, Greater Shepparton in Victoria, and Bankstown in NSW may be subject to the new system.
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The carbon and mining taxes have generated hysterical debate, but the extension of income management has been noticeably underreported.
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The newly opened Yongah Hill detention centre in remote Western Australia is 鈥減robably one of the most secure facilities in the entire network,鈥 immigration media manager Sandi Logan said on June 25.
The new detention centre is about 90 kilometres north-east of Perth, about five kilometres outside the rural town of Northam. The $125 million centre was a disused army barracks and will house up to 600 male asylum seekers.
It is now fitted with electric fences, 鈥渟cale-proof鈥 walls, cameras and bars on most windows, said an AAP reporter who visited the site.
The world today is plagued by many crises. Economies are in recession. The world is wracked by war. And poverty is still rampant for the world's majority. Alongside all of this, our environment, and our climate, is increasingly under pressure, threatening all life on the planet.
The climate crisis strikes at the very heart of our societies. We need to question the way we operate, the way we allocate and use our resources, and the way we develop infrastructure, so that we can create a more sustainable world.
Many have taken mining boss Gina Rinehart's bid to take up a seat on Fairfax's board of directors by buying up almost 20% of the media company's shares as a threat to its 鈥渋ndependence鈥 and 鈥渜uality journalism鈥. But many opponents of Rinehart's bid are glossing over Fairfax's ugly record.
A Rinehart-controlled media would do much damage to the possibility of informed public discussions in Australia.
The Transform Drug Policy Foundation recently informed me of , a new online research tool developed to educate people on the need for drug law reform.
The problem of homelessness, high rentals and unlicensed boarding houses in Sydney鈥檚 inner west 鈥 often though of as one of the wealthier areas of Sydney 鈥 is growing, said Paul Adabie, acting director of the Newtown Neighbourhood Centre (NNC).
Adabie told 麻豆传媒 Weekly these acute housing problems faced by the most disadvantaged and vulnerable.
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