Bryte's new album, The Bryte Side Of Life, may urge his listeners to think positive, but it's not all sweetness and light. The Aboriginal rapper has lost none of the political bite that snarled from his award-winning first album, Full Stop, four years ago.
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The Australian Greens have called on the federal government to end fossil fuel subsidies for big mining companies.
The Greens say costings by the Parliamentary Budget Office show that Labor鈥檚 spending on fossil fuel subsidies for mining companies will cost the public more than $13 billion over the next four years.
Included in these subsidies are diesel fuel tax rebates, accelerated depreciation on assets and accelerated depreciation on exploration.
Australian Students for Justice in Palestine at the University of Sydney released the statement below on April 12, after the Student Representative Council voted to support an academic boycott of Israel.
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The Student Representative Council (SRC) at the University of Sydney passed a motion this week endorsing Associate Professor Jake Lynch鈥檚 academic boycott of Israel.
Costas Isychos, is the defence and foreign policy spokesperson of the broad left SYRIZA party in Greece. This is an edited version of comments he made at a forum in Melbourne on April 8.
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I want to give you some idea of what has been happening in Greece since the world economic crisis started in 2008. This is a nightmare that started for humanity when the true identity of the banking and financial system appeared to the world.
With the death of another 鈥渃ontroversial鈥 world leader, what the media should have done was go back to their editorials that threw around terms like 鈥渁uthoritarian鈥 and 鈥渢yrant鈥, and were filled with tales of a legacy of economic destruction and class hatred and support for dictators, and just used a simple find/replace to remove 鈥淗ugo Chavez鈥 and insert 鈥淢argaret Thatcher鈥.
After a successful crowd-funding campaign that raised the funds for a manufacturing licence, Earthworker Cooperative Australia and Eureka鈥檚 Future Workers Cooperative will install their first solar hot water unit in Melbourne on April 15.
A fully equipped worker-owned factory is still a way off, but project coordinator and Socialist Alliance member Dave Kerin says it is now one step closer.
Compulsory income management of disadvantaged welfare recipients was slammed by speakers at a forum at the Bankstown Arts Centre on April 11.
The forum, organised by the Say No to Government Income Management: Not in Bankstown, Not Anywhere campaign coalition, attracted about 40 people to hear representatives from unions and Aboriginal, migrant and youth groups call for a campaign to stop the extension of income management from July 1 this year.
The SEARCH foundation held a conference called 鈥淪ecure Jobs in a Green Future: Australian Left Renewal Conference鈥, on April 6-7. It featured international guest Costas Isychos, a member of the Greek left party SYRIZA and head of the party鈥檚 external and defence policy.
When Opposition leader Tony Abbott spoke at the 70th anniversary dinner of the Institute of Public Affairs on April 5, he knew he was among friends. The IPA is a right-wing think-tank that promotes conservative politics in Australia.
At first, a bridging visa seems like a new life. A brief glimpse of freedom is felt by many asylum seekers who, after years in detention, see an opportunity to live freely in Australia.
The temporary, selective visa gets asylum seekers six weeks鈥 accommodation and financial support of $219 a week 鈥 a figure that is 89% of the Newstart allowance.
But after six weeks 鈥 a nanosecond in Australia's cumbersome and bureaucratic refugee processing system 鈥 asylum seekers are expected to go out on their own, find somewhere to live, and somehow survive on a few hundred dollars a week.
University of Queensland (UQ) Executive Dean of Arts Fred D鈥橝gostino said last month the gender studies major would be cut from the Bachelor of Arts program.
No student commencing next year would have the option of majoring in this area.
Gender studies has a 41-year history at the university. The program was won in the early 1970s by the powerful feminist movement of the time.
It was the first of its kind in Australia and one of the first in the world.
The Coal Terminal Action Group released this statement on April 10.
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Community groups in the Hunter Valley have responded with relief and celebration to the announcement of a two-year delay to Newcastle鈥檚 proposed fourth coal terminal (T4).
鈥淭here will be celebration and relief today in suburbs including Mayfield, Tighes Hill and Carrington where residents already live with particle pollution well above the national standard,鈥 said Coal Terminal Action Group spokesperson Annika Dean.
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