Prime Minister of Australia Mr Kevin Rudd, MHR [also to other ministers] January 2008
Dear Prime Minister
Re: Australian and Cuban education assistance to Timor Leste
We the following academics, writers, organisations and NGO workers observe these developments, on education assistance to Timor Leste:
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Early on January 23 more than 20,000 Palestinians from the besieged Gaza Strip poured into Egyptian territory after Palestinian militants from Hamas and the Popular Resistance Committee (PRC) blew up two 91自拍论坛 of the Gaza-Egypt border wall at Rafah.
NSW Treasurer Michael Costa passionately claims privatisation of NSW鈥檚 electricity generation and distribution is 鈥済ood economics鈥. However, there is popular opposition to the proposal 鈥 up to 86% in opinion polls.
Amid audible gasps of relief, on December 15 the US delegation to the United Nations climate change conference in Bali signalled that Washington would be part of the 聯Bali Roadmap聰 for combatting global warming. With the US on board, a two-year process of discussion would begin 聴 hopefully to culminate in the adoption of a new pact to replace the Kyoto Protocol, due to expire in 2012.
The Australian Education Union has called for a $2.9 billion investment into public education in order to support literacy and numeracy strategies. The AEU has called on Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to make this the first step in his so called 聯Education Revolution聰.
This is an extract from an inspiring letter from Jim Knight, one of our loyal readers in northern NSW:
Although 80% of current revenue from BHP Billiton聮s Olympic Dam mine in South Australia comes from minerals other than uranium, recent drilling has shown that the site is home to the largest ore body of uranium in the world.
On January 26, most people around the country celebrated 聯Australia Day聰. Thousands of Australian flags with the British union jack were raised, shrimps rolled on the barbie and beer poured like water.
Around the country, hundreds of people marked white invasion of Australia on January 26 by attending protests and festivals.
One of the 60 companies currently holding uranium exploration licences in South Australia, Marathon Resources, has admitted it聮s investigating how 50-60 garbage bags containing what聮s thought to be uranium tailings were dumped in the Arkaroola Wilderness Sanctuary in the Flinders Ranges.
For the first time in 11 years we are under a new government, a Labor government. PM Kevin Rudd聮s government was elected off the back of mounting dissatisfaction with the continuing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, inaction on climate change, the Northern Territory intervention and Work Choices, but the battle for change has not been won.
The current crisis could well turn out to be the most devastating since the Great Depression of the 1930s. It manifests profound, unresolved problems in the real economy that have been 鈥 literally 鈥 papered over by debt for decades, as well as a shorter term financial crunch of a depth unseen since World War II.
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