Five thousand people attended the vibrant Climate Emergency Rally in Melbourne on June 5. Grassroots environment activists and groups came from all over Victoria to protest numerous environmentally destructive projects currently underway or proposed, demanding action instead be focused on renewable energy and public transport.
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Professor Ross Garnaut鈥檚 draft review of climate change policy options for the Australian government was released on July 4, with climate change minister Penny Wong due to release a green paper canvassing policy options on July 16. Garnaut鈥檚 report looks at the 鈥渃osts鈥 and 鈥渂enefits鈥 of mitigating drastic climate change through a carbon polluting trading scheme. It suggests tax cuts and 鈥渨elfare reform鈥 to compensate low-income households, which will be hit hard by energy price rises.
According to the official website for World Youth Day (WYD), Sydney will 聯look different聰 from APEC. Really? With 600-plus areas now officially 聯declared areas聰, not to mention proscribed airspace throughout July, and officials with the right to decide who is annoying and who isn聮t, it doesn聮t seem very different. If anything, it聮s worse.
Indigenous communities have been underfunded and deprived of essential resources for decades because of faulty census data, a technical paper produced by Australian National University (ANU) academics has discovered.
Around 80 people demonstrated under the banner of the National front for Indonesian Workers Struggle (FNPBI) outside the headquarters of ExxonMobil and the national parliament building to demand that the government cancel the increase in the price of fuel.
Bolivian President Evo Morales has expressed his support for the decision by coca growers in the Chapare region of Cochabamba to expel the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and reaffirmed that he would not 鈥渒neel down before the empire鈥.
A public meeting on June 24 against the proposed desalination plant drew 500 people. The gathering, 12 months after a 700-strong public meeting that kicked off the campaign, vowed to continue the fight against the energy-inefficient and costly non-solution to Melbourne聮s water crisis.
The following statement has been issued by the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union.
There have been nationwide protests against the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government聮s decision to raise the prices of petrol, diesel and cooking gas.
The following article is abridged from a June 26 post on http://peruanista.blogspot.com. The full article, along with a series of videos on the struggle, can be found at http://links.org.au.
Employees and Australian Workers Union (AWU) members at CSR聮s Yarraville sugar refinery are in dispute with management over a log of claims for their enterprise bargaining agreement.
Each year 80,000 abortions are performed in Australia, with one in three women having a termination at some stage in their lives.
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