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.
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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.
A community protest of up to 30 people was held outside a global shale industry conference in Perth on June 28. Campaign group No Fracking WAy organised the protest. The two-day conference on global shale gas development put on by the Electric Utility Consultants, Inc (EUCI) at the Seasons of Perth Hotel, 37 Pier St, Perth.
The protesters held up banners, sang anti-fracking songs and heard from several speakers about the problems with the shale gas industry, which is expanding rapidly in Western Australia.
A June 27 speakout in the Bourke Street Mall called for the freeing of political prisoners in Pakistan and condemned the Pakistani state鈥檚 use of the Western-sponsored 鈥渨ar on terror鈥 as a pretext for cracking down on community activists and trade unionists. The speakout was use to collect signatures names on an international open letter.
Having taken her share in Fairfax Media to nearly 20%, Gina Rinehart has demanded a greater say in the workings of Fairfax, including editorial matters at its major papers The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.
Fairfax鈥檚 board has so far rejected Rinehart鈥檚 manoeuvres, saying she must first commit to signing the 鈥淔airfax Media Charter of Editorial Independence鈥, which is based on the 鈥渇undamental and longstanding principle of editorial independence鈥.
The prosecution of two activists dubbed the 鈥淐hristmas Carol Criminals鈥 collapsed when a Perth magistrate dismissed all charges on June 29. Alex Bainbridge and Miranda Wood from the group Friends of Palestine WA (FOPWA) had been charged with trespassing during a December protest outside Israeli cosmetics company Seacret. Seacret benefits from the illegal occupation of Palestine by stealing minerals and resources from the Dead Sea to use in its products.
June 29 was dubbed "Black Friday" for Queensland public servants as up to 3000 temporary and contract workers faced the sack from the Liberal-National Party government.
Contracts for many staff in "non-frontline" jobs expired and will not be renewed under a job freeze ordered by Premier Campbell Newman, the June 29 Courier-Mail said.
Newman has also appointed a razor gang, following the interim report of the Costello Commission of Audit into state debt, to find more cuts, including jobs of permanent staff.
Since the deaths of asylum seekers when two boats headed to Australia capsized, parliament has been locked in a debate about how to 鈥渟ave lives鈥. But the 鈥渄ebate鈥 is framed in such a way to ensure that more lives will be lost and more refugees victimised. ALP and Coalition MPs are pushing a policy of refugee 鈥渄eterrence鈥 designed to simply move refugees somewhere else.
On June 22, a boat carrying about 200 refugees capsized on its way to Christmas Island. Another vessel capsized on June 28. So far, reports say at least 91 refugees have drowned and others are still missing.
The Steve Irwin Reserve on far north Queensland鈥檚 rugged Cape York faces the threat of mining, under new moves to water down the previous Bligh Labor government鈥檚 Wild Rivers law.
Liberal National Party state environment minister , which is expected to replace Wild Rivers laws on at least four far-north wilderness rivers.
The below on June 29.
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A team of three experienced Socialist Alliance activists will stand in Marrickville Council鈥檚 north ward at the upcoming elections.
Socialist Alliance, which is contesting the elections on a platform of Power to the People, is a social justice and ecological party.
鈥淐ouncils should be extensions of the community鈥, said lead candidate Pip Hinman.
Stop CSG campaigners in the Illawarra are celebrating the NSW government鈥檚 confirmation that coal seam gas drilling cannot take place in the Illawarra at this time. spokesperson Jess Moore told WIN TV News on June 25: 鈥淭his is huge news and shows the power the Illawarra community has to affect change.鈥
Public housing campaign group released the statement below on June 29.
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鈥淣ew planning laws proposed by NSW Planning Minister Brad Hazzard mean more public tenants will be socially cleansed toSydney鈥檚 outskirts and developers will have a free go at turning our city into concrete canyons,鈥 Denis Doherty said.
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