Veteran Aboriginal activist Kevin Buzzacott has been awarded the Australian Conservation Foundation聮s (ACF) 2007 Peter Rawlinson Award for his work over two decades highlighting the impacts of uranium mining and promoting a nuclear-free Australia.
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More than 30 delegates from around the world attended the Jerusalem Initiative conference held in occupied East Jerusalem to call for an end to Israel聮s illegal occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. The three-day conference from June 2-4 was organised by the Palestinian People聮s Party and the Communist Party of Israel and was attended by representatives from European, Scandanvian and Australian socialist parties as well as members of the international peace movement, trade unions and women聮s organisations from around the world.
More than 500 protesters from around NSW assembled at a property near the proposed new Anvil Hill open-cut coalmine in the Upper Hunter over the June 2-3 weekend. The state government approved the mine on June 7.
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.
Australians all, let us rejoiceFor we are girt by seaWhich makes it very difficultFor would-be refugees,If any of them make it here and it's not a lot We lock them upAnd send them offSomewhere that's very hotWe lock them upAnd send them offSomewhere
Former Newcastle lord mayor Greg Heys died on June 5 after a massive heart attack.
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.
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.
The trial of the 鈥淧ine Gap Four鈥 in Alice Springs is continuing with the Crown lawyer arguing that the jury should not be determining the reasonableness of the activists鈥 actions. Michael Maurice QC argued that, 鈥淓ngaging in activities to disrupt the implementation of public policy can never be reasonable鈥.
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.
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.
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