Forty protesters were met by hundreds of police 聴 including members of the riot squad and mounted police 聴 as they gathered to picket PM John Howard聮s attendance at a $250-a-head Asia Society function on June 6.
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Under pressure to prove his government has answers to the global warming crisis, on June 3 PM John Howard backed the corporate polluter-friendly recommendations of his Task Group on Emissions Trading, set up on December 10.
On June 1, around 150 people, including elders, family members, Noonuccal people of North Stradbroke Island and supporters of Aboriginal rights, gathered at Queensland University of Technology to pay tribute to Oodgeroo Noonuccal. This warrior woman聮s life as poet, political activist, artist and educator was honoured with the inaugural public lecture and awarding of scholarships in her name.
The ALP deserves to be re-badged the 鈥淎nti-Labour Party鈥 as historian Humphrey McQueen suggests, and the ALP鈥檚 public dressing down and forced resignation of Victorian Electrical Trade Union (ETU) secretary Dean Mighell reinforces this view.
Tasmanians from all walks of life are up in arms about Gunns鈥 proposal to build one of the largest pulp mills in the world in the Tamar Valley, near Launceston.
On June 5, the Iraqi parliament approved a law giving itself the formal authority to block the extension beyond December of the UN Security Council mandate under which US and allied foreign troops are deployed in Iraq.
Since federal ALP leader Kevin Rudd outlined Labor鈥檚 鈥淲ork Choices lite鈥 on April 17 鈥 promising that a Labor government would maintain the Coalition鈥檚 ban on strikes outside of bargaining periods and secret ballots 鈥 Labor鈥檚 full-scale retreat on industrial relations has continued.
Algae and coal
Zoe Kenny's assertion in GLW #707 that cost-effective "clean coal" technology does not yet exist requires some modification. In recent years, techniques for carbon sequestration using microalgal photobioreactors have advanced
Activists from the Stop Bush Coalition have condemned moves to make NSW into a 聯police state聰 during the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in September. The government introduced legislation into NSW parliament on June 7 that will give police extraordinary powers for two weeks around the time of the summit.
Some 55,000 people demonstrated in Hong Kong on June 4 聴 the 18th anniversary of the Chinese army聮s bloody 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy student protesters at Beijing聮s Tiananmen Square.
At midnight on June 4, around 2800 kitchen staff, orderlies and hospital cleaners were set to be locked out of their workplaces by four contracting companies 聴 Spotless, OCS, ISS and Compass 聴 in hospitals across New Zealand. However, last-minute negotiations between the Service and Food Workers Union Nga Ringa Tota (SFWU) and the District Health Board averted the lockout.
Yossi & Jagger 鈥 The story of a gay relationship in the Israeli army. SBS, Saturday, June 16, 1.05am.
Compass: Bearing Witness 鈥 Examines the trauma experienced by journalists who have been witness to terrible world events while on assignment.
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